ICEF Podcast: Student flows are shifting. Are agencies following suit?

Listen in as ICEF’s Craig Riggs and Martijn van de Veen recap some of the latest developments in our sector, including increased government scrutiny of the Optional Practical Training (OPT) programme in the United States and early indicators of a further foreign enrolment decline in UK higher education in 2026/27.

Our co-hosts are then joined by a special guest – Alexandre Argenta, the president
of BELTA (Brazilian Educational & Language Travel Association) – for a thoughtful discussion on how education agencies are adapting to a widening field of study destinations. The conversation touches on a number of growing destinations in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America.

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: Sustainable international student recruitment from a UK-China perspective"
• "UNESCO confirms growing trend of intra-regional student mobility"
• "From the Big Four to the Big Fourteen"