There are nearly 478 million native Spanish speakers worldwide, a foundation which has helped to make Spanish the second...
Market intelligence for international student recruitment from ICEF
Subscribe for freeMexico is a key Latin American sending market – second only to Brazil in terms of the size of its population and economy – and a growing number of institutions...
With its massive, youthful population and burgeoning economy, Indonesia has long been considered a student recruitment market with great potential for growth. And indeed even conservative estimates point...
In 2015/16, Saudi enrolment in US higher education reached nearly 62,000 students. That was enough to place the Kingdom as the third-largest sending market for US colleges and...
The Philippines has been poised for outbound growth for some time now, and especially so over the last couple of years as the country has transitioned to a...
Nepal’s outbound student numbers continued their rapid growth trajectory in 2018. Following on from strong gains the previous year, many global and regional study destinations reported a large...
There are nearly 478 million native Spanish speakers worldwide, a foundation which has helped to make Spanish the second...
After more than a decade of rapid outbound growth, Kazakhstan is firmly on the radar of international recruiters...
The Internet has changed everything in terms of international student recruitment. For agents, digital has represented both an opportunity and a threat, as Laurent Pasquet, managing director for...
Intensive English Programmes (IEPs) in the US have been buffeted by sharp enrolment declines over the last two years. The subset of 400+ language programmes tracked by the...
Sub-Saharan Africa has become an increasingly important region for international student recruitment, and is home to a number of significant sending markets, notably Nigeria and Kenya. And now...
The junior language travel market – that is, programmes for those aged 18 and under – has been one of the industry’s most dynamic segments for some years now and...
Kenya is one of those markets that is sometimes hard to see clearly. The official stats from UNESCO suggest that outbound mobility has been essentially flat over the...
Bangladesh continues to demonstrate its potential as one of the most important emerging markets for study abroad in South Asia. It is the eighth most-populous country in the...
One of the very interesting stories in higher education this decade is the continuing expansion of English-taught programmes...
Nobody is entirely sure how many Sri Lankan students go abroad each year, but the feeling among some observers is that the official counts offered by important data sources...