The Sri Lankan government has outlined plans to open up its higher educational system to private overseas university investors and aims to attract 50,000 international students and 10 foreign university campuses by 2020, starting with a UCLAN campus which will open in September 2015.

An automated system for international students and agents applying to UK universities has been launched in a bid to speed up the process and stamp out fraud. Centurus ONE cuts out paper-based processing and creates a "data trail". It has already been used to process 2,000 applications at the University of Glyndwr’s London campus.