Sri Lanka is keen to establish itself as an education hub in Asia, trading on its affordable and accessible location, tourism appeal, significant (Chinese-funded) development and existing sandwich course agreements with overseas universities.

We are optimistic that now the State Department has put Egypt in the same security category as the UK, Germany, Italy, France, Spain – that would again encourage students to come back

Navitas gathered its business partners in Sri Lanka to discuss evolving commercial education partnerships. Key areas of development for the company are managing satellite campuses for universities and domestic recruitment.

That was the worst thing that ever happened to our country. The currency has collapsed, the last few months. The dollar has tripled or even more.

Rates of commission being paid to education agents by language schools have been creeping upwards to the point that profitability is being threatened, according to some stakeholders.

The co-director of a French language school and board member of IALC, Stefan Adenet-Kaven has died, leaving friends in the industry in mourning.

Prestige to some extent is a fixed quality and the West has more of it than the developing world does.

"The net migration target is a political target and the IPS net migration figure does not have to form the basis of the government’s net migration target, said MAC.