Market intelligence for international student recruitment from ICEF

23rd Mar 2022

ICEF Podcast: Student decision making factors are changing – why and how?

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 the latest developments in the war in Ukraine and its wide-ranging impacts on students and international educators.

They are joined by Abby Guthrie, communications manager with Keystone Education Group, and Bharat Chawla, CEO of Uniqway, for a discussion on how student decision-making for study abroad is changing this year.

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

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.

For additional background, please see:

"ICEF Podcast: Artificial Intelligence in international student recruitment"

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