Prestige to some extent is a fixed quality and the West has more of it than the developing world does.

Stakeholders urged government to extend visa progression to ELT students to remove the need for those students to leave the country when applying for a visa.

We already have about 175,000 students now who are international. By 2025 our target is 250,000 international students

EasyUni has seen website traffic for its Middle Eastern venture EasyUniME grow 1,123%, while applications and enquiries are up 409% since December 2017.

The opportunity to further build on student numbers will be through in-country delivery, not inbound delivery, according to ASEAN experts.

A new Memorandum of Understanding to encourage Japanese students to consider a Malaysian ELT and higher education has been signed by English Malaysia and JAOS.

Southeast Asia will become a bigger presence in global education, with ASEAN pushing for progress. And Malaysia delivered its impressive new blueprint for employability-linked tertiary education, as delegates at Going Global learned. 

Higher education systems in the ASEAN region are becoming more open for international engagement, a new British Council report has revealed.