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We're about to be the youngest nation in the world and with that comes demands to give youth the kinds of jobs they'll require but also to give them the kind of culture India would want to provide while making them global citizens

Competitors try to speed it up expansion and buy schools already up and running with very different company cultures and they try to integrate them into their own group of schools. That is not the way we believe to be the best and most efficient.

There are certainly not high volumes coming to Australia. The university is looking at doing things very differently now. Not necessarily by cutting things, but we can’t just rely on going to exhibitions like we did over the past 10 years

When our minister for tertiary education goes overseas with vice-chancellors and talks to the people in China, Indonesia or Singapore, all they want to talk about is skills, not higher education

The younger you get students in a high school programme, the more bi-cultural they'll be, the better English they are obviously going to have and also the more choices they will have for college or university.

All the future is in developing markets so there has to be joined up enlightened thinking about the whole area of international education and visas and that’s how we’re lobbying. We’re going to continue our efforts from last year in Turkey, China and Russia.

Over time IDP has developed into the world’s largest student placement organisation, and led the world in developing the business of being an agent effectively

Students use our services because nine times out of ten we’ll have a counselor that understands their language, our service is free, and we are very centrally located.

I wanted to start something that enabled agents to meet not only European and US education providers but also those in Vietnam, Japan, Burma, Mongolia, Tawian etc. These could be good markets too, so I wanted to bring Asian business into the mix

The UKBA is not focused on opportunities for Scotland. It's focused very narrowly on an agenda set by the coalition government which is really focused on what it perceives are the needs of the South East of England. We would like to have a different approach.

If the US got their act together and had one national agency such as the British Council or AEI in Australia, instead of having 3 different departments with conflicting opinions – State, Commerce and Education - then things could really really start cooking.

Marketing at LSBF is much more central to the operation. We are truly global and we don’t view agents in the margin. We also have a different approach to students – counselling them rather than just trying to sell them something...

India in the next 10 years is an economy that is going to double in size and no country with a serious international education agenda can afford to ignore India.

We are in the the countries who are providing more students than others in the region. But we are also doing the fairs in a Turkish way. We do really good business yet we are fun and foreign schools really enjoy attending our events.

About one in three international students in the UK is studying business and management. And if there are half a million students studying UK degrees offshore, 350,000 are studying business management. That's a huge market for us.