The UK Home office has announced that EU students will now be treated in much the same way as non-EU students, with some exceptions, under a new immigration...
There were more than 485,000 international students enrolled in UK higher education institutions in 2018/19...
Let’s talk about Brexit. At this writing, the UK is poised to crash out of the European Union on 12 April without an exit deal in place. British...
After first easing controls on student head counts in 2012, the government moved to eliminate caps on undergraduate student numbers for English universities in 2015. The idea was to...
A recently released British parliamentary report calls for a new international strategy to boost the UK’s competitiveness in international student markets. The report, authored by the All-Party Parliamentary...
It is well known that international students generate substantial economic benefits not just for education institutions, but also for local and national economies. For example, the value of...
The UK and European Union reached an important milestone in the Brexit talks last month. On 19 March, negotiators formalised an agreement for a 21-month transition period running...
There was a moment when it looked like an agreement between the UK and the European Union around the first phase of Brexit negotiations could be slipping away....
The global strength of the British education brand is showing this year with record-high application volumes...
The UK’s inclusion of international students in net migration statistics has often been contentious – and perhaps never more so than now. Media reports suggest that Prime Minister Theresa...
The annual census of the Independent Schools Council (ISC) finds a marginal drop in the enrolment of non-British pupils whose parents live overseas. The 2017 census indicates a...
Foreign enrolment in British higher education has been essentially flat for the last couple of years. Meanwhile, student weeks in English Language Teaching (ELT) programmes fell by 13%...
Earlier this month, higher education delegates to the British Parliament’s Exiting the European Union Committee provided further evidence of declining volumes of admissions applications from EU students. Speaking to...
The annual European Association for International Education (EAIE) conference was held in Liverpool last week. It was the first major international education conference in Europe following the UK’s...
In April 2015, the British government substantially overhauled the system for Secure English Language Tests (SELT) in the UK. As a result, IELTS became the only approved test...
