The Higher Education Statistics Agency and Jisc are exploring a potential merger in order to benefit the UK higher education sector.

Government support and institutional growth has been more prevalent in Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America over the last two decades than in the Global North, Higher Education Strategy Associates has suggested.

UK education stakeholders are concerned about a decision by the Higher Education Statistics Agency to stop surveying international graduates by telephone.

UK higher education providers hosted 605,130 international students in the 2020/21 academic year, hitting its 600,000 target a decade earlier than hoped, Higher Education Statistics Agency figures have indicated.

The number of non-UK students at higher education institutions in the country in 2019/20 rose above half a million for the first time, which stakeholders say re-affirms positive steps that the government and sector have taken.

A new report has identified Canadian universities and colleges that could be vulnerable to an “international student recession” caused by Covid-19. 

The Higher Education Statistics Agency's first release of data for the 2018/19 academic year has revealed that international student numbers in the UK are up by 5.9%, with a huge hike in enrolments from India. 

New international enrolments in UK HE have seen healthier growth in 2017/18, with non-EU students driving the growth, while EU new arrivals dip.