Universities across Europe have experienced a sudden increase in demand, but is their new-found popularity due to the "Brexit effect”? Or, with many countries already experiencing a long-term growth in student numbers, would this have happened anyway? Helen Packer finds out.

Rarely has the sector focused its attention on recruiting online. However, since the pandemic began, a digital land grab has been taking place with websites and marketplaces competing for online audiences of students seeking to study abroad. Nick Cuthbert digs deeper.

ApplyBoard has announced the acquisition of training ecosystem and software platform Panda Portal, which it will rebrand as TrainHub.

ApplyBoard has announced a partnership with Royal Bank of Canada to support international students to gain guaranteed investment certificates.

ApplyBoard has introduced a tool aiming to assist institutions make "important decisions" when recruiting international talent from overseas.

Recruiters looking at applications received were using the “wrong metric”, following quantity and not quality, according to stakeholders.

Artificial intelligence recruitment platform ApplyBoard has recorded a boom in application volumes while projecting the direction of the international education sector over the next decade in its first trends report, with Nigeria, Kenya, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Egypt, and Indonesia set for high growth.

Edtech unicorn ApplyBoard is on target to place over 60,000 students next year according to the company’s CMO Meti Basiri.