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17% drop in international students a threat to university sustainability

The National Centre for Universities and Business (NCUB) has responded to latest NSO data which reveals a 17% drop off in international students.  New figures from the Office for National Statistics...

Chinese students at top Uni’s to get specialist careers support

Chinese students coming to study at two highly ranked, leading UK universities will now benefit from specialist support...

What does English UK’s 2025 student statistics report tell us?  

UK ELT held steady in a year of global uncertainty and turbulence, according to the latest annual figures...

ELT industry worth over £1.8bn to the UK

The first economic impact report into UK English Language Teaching (ELT) for a decade reveals the UK ELT...

120% hike threatens Irish language schools

Representing over 60 accredited language schools, English Education Ireland urges an immediate review and pause of a new...

Lack of housing affects student numbers in New Zealand

New Zealand, like the rest of the world, is beginning to see a real bounce-back, post-pandemic, in student numbers. But, like the rest of...

Business licences revoked India

This month saw the business licences of 239 immigration consultants and 129 IELTS preparation centres in the Punjab region of India revoked. None of...

Announcing the winners of this year’s ELTons

Celebrating its 20th year, the British Council ELTons Awards ceremony, which honours innovation in English language teaching, took place in November 2022. The event...

Are too many schools spoiling the UK’s post-Covid recovery?

When Stevie Spring, chair of the British Council, opened the ELTons awards ceremony (see opposite page), she made an important announcement. There were, she...

More UK language centres gone

A further 10 language centres have been removed from the British Council accreditation lists since last September, bringing the total number which have closed...

Too many international students are going Dutch, say politicians

The Dutch parliament has called upon the country’s universities to stop marketing their degree courses to international students in order to cut the number...
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