Five mins with

This week, we spent five minutes with Phillip Cenere, CEO of Chancellor Institute.

This week, we spent five minutes with freelance educational consultant Bruno Gallo.

This week, The PIE spent five minutes with remote work entrepreneur Lavinia Iosub, based in Bali, Indonesia.

This week, The PIE spent five minutes with Annette Bradford, a consultant at Oxford EMI, discussing her defining career moment at a conference in Seoul, great lunches in Tokyo and why she'd love to learn Japanese instantly.

Our main message would be that government really has to consider the MAC's recommendations very, very carefully

What do you like most about your job? No one seems to just stumble into international education, we all seem to have been impacted by global education and travel.

What's the most interesting trend you've observed in our industry? Post-pandemic, students now prioritise advisors, support systems, and academic standards more than ever.

What do you like most about your job? Working at a language school is like being in a microcosm of the world.

If you could learn any language instantly, which one would it be, and why? Hindi - India is set to join the US and China in the next half century as one of three economic superpowers.

Describe a defining moment in your career. During the financial crash in 2007/2008 we lost our key university partner and realised how important it is to diversify.

At Maastricht, I was working not only with traditional students, but we were also running programs in developing countries and emerging markets

If we’re not able to speak English, we will not be able to understand how the world works

You tend to forget how much you draw from the experiences you've had your whole life

We should use the UK being a new dialogue partner with ASEAN as an opportunity to really think about where we can work together

Opening study centres in Algeria, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan has to be up there among my proudest career moments