The UK home office granted a record 428,428 sponsored study visas in the year up to September 2021, a 55% increase on pre-Covid levels.

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 student recruitment marketplace Adventus.io has launched a new real-time data analytics platform to help universities better understand the student acquisition funnel and  “unlock potential” in their student pipeline.

QS has acquired web-based counselling and application platform StudentApply as it seeks to strengthen its student recruitment proposition in the fast-moving and competitive world of international student recruitment.

BMI’s TalkGlobalStudy fairs took place last week after a world-first onsite PCR testing centre was set up for the events in the United Arab Emirates.

Legislation has been introduced to Congress in the US that education sector stakeholders say would make "necessary technical corrections" to the THRIVE Act.

The Keystone Education Group has acquired UK-based student engagement, conversion, and retention service, UniQuest, as it seeks to "disrupt and innovate the existing traditional counselling and agency model".

At a time when edtech continues to dominate headlines, student search platforms are vying to help international student recruiters work more effectively and efficiently. Nick Cuthbert reports.