The PIE News team

This week, The PIE caught up with Akshay Chaturvedi, founder and CEO of Leverage, to explore the daily disciplines behind his work and the conversation with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer that continues to shape his thinking.

The PIE sat down with Bhakti Shah, founder of The Outreach Collective (TOC), on the sidelines of the organisation’s Third Weave event to unpack the inefficiencies that inspired TOC’s creation and the case for rethinking how education stakeholders collaborate.

Starting January 6, parliamentarians and vice chancellors in the UK are going head to head to win the most Duolingo XP. But who will be victorious?

This week, we spend five minutes with Michelle Callanan, global marketing director at IDP, discussing what it takes to lead marketing teams through complex global ambitions, while keeping students at the heart of the work.

This week, we spent five minutes with Vaibhav Rustagi, Glion London’s campus director, to explore the dynamic and glamorous world of hospitality – and the invaluable transferable skills that studying in this field provides for students.

Presidents' Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration CEO Miriam Feldblum gave a rousing speech during her opening remarks at The PIE Live North America in Chicago.

The Education Committee’s final inquiry session sees skills minister Jacqui Smith defend the government’s contentious international student fee levy and its allocation to targeted maintenance grants for domestic students.

This week, The PIE spent five minutes with Phil Honeywood, CEO of the International Education Association of Australia (IEAA) to explore the career journey that brought him to the helm of the organisation – and why he believes Australia’s international education sector is in need of a PR campaign.

The 2025 AIEC theme got us curious: If you’ve been in international education a while… what’s changed? We asked delegates at the Canberra conference – here’s what they told us.