Voices

Shaun Carver reflects on Donald Trump's first year back in the White House, the climate of fear across US campuses and the reputational damage that is outstripping policy reform.

While the UK’s highly anticipated international education strategy signals a new collaborative approach, it lacks a detailed plan of how to meet a target of £40 billion in annual education export revenue. The PIE’s Nicholas Cuthbert explores why the strategy is heavy on collaborators, but light on detail at this stage.

This week, we spend five minutes with Karine Hyon Vintrou, managing director at École Ducasse, on leading with purpose and shaping the next generation of hospitality talent.

As Japan faces major demographic changes, it can look to countries like India to help bridge workforce gaps while also gaining new momentum in international collaboration, writes Sagar Bahadur.

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.

This week, The PIE sat down with Lana Shaugney, CEO of Oxford Comma Advisory, to talk about content creation, her own experiences as an international student and the one piece of career advice she swears by.

Indian students still seem to believe in the value of an American degree. The question now is whether US institutions will meet them with the support and stability they deserve, says John Anderson of The Fletcher School at Tufts University.

This week, The PIE spent five minutes with Gaurav Jain, director of business development at SP Jain London School of Management, discussing why he finds young professionals “refreshing”, the need for regulatory freedom in education, and why the sector needs a “seatbelt”.

Instructure's Sidarth Oberoi explores how universities can continue engaging students as learning needs and expectations outpace many traditional institutional models.

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.

Following a year of scale reduction and a narrowing of how international education is understood in Canada, Philipp Reichert looks back at 2025 and asks what is next for 2026.

This week, we spent five minutes with Ken LaOrden, discussing the launch of the new US student recruitment agency, Quallege, and why it somewhat felt like "starting a bank during the Great Depression".