UK: concerns around outcomes data collection
UK education stakeholders are concerned about a decision by the Higher Education Statistics Agency to stop surveying international graduates by telephone.
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.
Coventry University has topped HESA's international mobility ranking, after providing a total of 3,482 international students experiences in 2016/17.
International student enrolments in the UK have been stagnating over the past two years, the latest HESA statistics show, with a small increase from the EU that will potentially be affected by Brexit.