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23rd Feb 2022

ICEF Podcast: Artificial Intelligence in international student recruitment

In this episode of our continuing podcast series, ICEF’s Craig Riggs (editor of ICEF Monitor) and Martijn van de Veen (vice-president of business development) discuss some of the trends shaping student mobility this month.

They are joined by Tony Lee, chief vision officer at ICEF, and Ashish Fernando, the CEO of iSchoolConnect, for a feature discussion on the role of artificial intelligence in international recruitment.

The episode concludes with a closer look at another key growth market in international education: Nigeria.

You can listen right now in the player below, and we encourage you to subscribe via your favourite podcast app in order to receive future episodes automatically.

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