Voices

'To educate individuals' is such a key phrase because it isn’t just students then. It’s our community, it is our faculty and staff who work so much with our students and that’s what comprehensive internationalisation is.

My movements were very much under surveillance and my family members were all detained in various ways. We belong to a group of people who have undergone suppression from the military regime

The situation in Ukraine sounds like people will not go to Russia, but in reality students are going in a bigger amount because they see a future in Russia

It took us about one and a half years- but the respective agencies now believe in the processes and services we are providing

Traditional language schools have the market in their hands – imagine that – but they're leaving this customer in the same kind of location and environment for other companies to come in and take ownership of them

"People will continue to go abroad for education, but the numbers may drop if the quality and number of educational institutions increases in India"

I think we give our students an incomplete education if we don't get them overseas.

We have to constantly remember why we’re in this: it’s to inspire this next generation of world citizens, and if you’re not in it for that, I don’t know what you’re in it for.

We are here to serve the students, to stimulate others to replicate our model, and we will continue to grow until all the students that need services like the one we offer are served, whether by us or by others.

German universities will have decreasing intake from German students so they are actually interested in getting more students, keeping up the numbers, or else otherwise we will be closing several institutions.

It’s a tough global brand because if you talk to somebody and you say ‘What do you know about Canada?’, invariably they’re going to tell you that they know Toronto and they may know Vancouver, and beyond that they don’t know much.

Usual EFL selling channels don’t work for pathways. The market sees EFL as different from HE so we’ve had to build up a completely different team of people

Lebanon is a troubled society, especially since 2005. The university decided, if the problem is tolerance, coexistence, intercultural dialogue and so on, then the best thing to do for our students is to teach them human rights topics.

Generally, discussions about international students are mainly focused on how we are a main source of revenue for the economy

There’s a growing interest in foreign countries for the more arts, media related subjects – whereas I think if you looked at the market ten years ago it would be business, business and more business. There is a growing interest to diversify.