Diya Singh

This week, The PIE sat down with Vardaan Shekhawat, founder of UK Jobs Insider, where he has built a careers community of more than 400,000 people and helped international students and graduates secure jobs. A former UK skills policy professional, he spoke to The PIE about the realities of job hunting in the UK and what universities could be doing differently to support international students.

This week, The PIE sat down with former Attorney General of Malawi Thabo Chakaka Nyirenda, himself a former international student. We discussed why UK universities continue to attract African postgraduate students and what institutions misunderstand about employability.

New research presented at the Explore UK Forum by student recruitment platform Cialfo, part of Manifest Global, highlights three gaps in how universities recruit internationally, based on survey findings shared at the event.

At Cambridge's India Business Dialogue, senior British and Indian officials spoke of balance and bilateral opportunity but questions about who the 'right' people migrating are, and who decides, remain unanswered.