Almost 6m pupils attended international schools in 2020, while local nationals are enrolling at schools in Asia, a report has found. Total numbers increased by some 7% since 2019.
A survey of 600 international higher education students has revealed he coronavirus pandemic has caused “moderate to extreme” disruption to learning.
The US remains highly attractive to students from India, especially STEM students. But interest for 2021 studies has shifted slightly to favour Canada, UK and Germany.
At least 31% of schoolchildren worldwide cannot be reached by digital and broadcast remote learning programs enacted to counter school closures, UNICEF has revealed.
The numbers of international students joining US intensive English programs fell by around 3.5% in 2019, with English USA revealing the “sobering” news that some 80 IEP programs have closed since 2017.
Employees are looking to upskill and reskill as the impact of Covid-19 hits the job market – but universities are not their first port of call for learning.
Almost all UK universities are planning to deliver blended learning, but about 70% of institutions expect provision to be “mostly online”, a survey has shown.
Canada’s market share of international students is likely to grow following while the US is expected to witness a “marked decline”, agents have indicated in a survey carried out by global education provider Navitas.
Languages Canada has proposed an initiative to bring 40,000 students into the country to learn languages, while a report details a decline in enrolment in 2019.
A UK think tank has called for caps on the number of international students from any one country in universities to “boost resilience”.
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