The PIE News team

A short-term impact of the Brexit vote in the UK is a likely uplift in study travel to the UK for English language study because of the value of the pound sterling falling.

A vote for Brexit in the UK has had an immediate impact on the value of the pound sterling. The PIE News speaks with stakeholders in the UK, Europe and beyond on possible implications for international education.

An immigration tribunal has condemned the Home Office's decision to deport thousands of international students for alleged exam fraud. Here, The PIE News takes a look at the events leading up to the launch of the formal inquiry into the agency announced this week.

The impact of technological developments on learning environments, skills training and access to education was discussed at the StudyPortals Student of the Future conference this week.

One of Turkey’s largest education agencies, Atlas, held its annual employee professional development seminar in Istanbul where employees learned new sales tactics and gained market insight from key partner providers and The PIE News.

Embassy English – Study Group's English language teaching arm – will open its newest study centre close to Soho in central London, sharing space with new private HE player University of Law. "For years our agents and students having been asking about central London" said the company's President.

The £4.2m English for Education College Trainers’ (EfECT) scheme seeks to place native English teacher trainers in 21 of Burma’s training colleges. It aims to improve English language development in the country and increase teaching quality in relevant educational institutions.

The demographic breakdown, learning approach and business model have all changed and international schools are no longer a small market catering for a niche group. The international schools market is now big business.

Sri Lanka says it still aims to become an international education hub by 2020, despite signs earlier this year that the plans had stalled. The Higher Education Ministry said last month that it wanted attract more foreign branch campuses as well as convert local universities into world class universities.

Kuwait's ministry of higher education is to give Kuwaiti students 4,500 scholarships to study abroad in 2013-14. The scheme is designed to improve Kuwaiti human capital with awardees studying majors that accord with labour market needs. The awards can be used at top universities in 13 countries, although details of these are yet to be published.