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20th Aug 2025

ICEF Podcast: Redrawing the map of global student flows from the ‘Big Four’ to the ‘Big Fourteen’

Listen in as ICEF’s Craig Riggs and Martijn van de Veen recap some of the latest news and developments in our sector, including thecrising student demand for destinations in Asia and the Middle East and Australia's updated enrolment limits for 2025/26.

Our hosts are then joined by Kym Nguyen, Vice President, Student Recruitment at QS, and Andrew Ness, Senior Vice-President, Analytics and Consulting, North America with Studyportals, for a feature discussion on how demand for study abroad is increasingly being distributed across a wider field of destinations.

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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