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?? The burden of the cost of living is becoming heavier for international students in the UK. ?? Inside London, the average annual living expense has surged to an eye-watering **￡13,347**. Outside the capital, students still face significant challenges, with costs hitting approximately **￡10,224**. ?? How are these rising costs impacting your study experience or plans to study in the UK? Let’s talk about solutions and strategies to navigate this financial landscape. #InternationalStudents #CostOfLiving #UKEducation

Who’s coming to The PIE? It has never been more important that those representing UK #highered & institutions attend what could be an absolutely pivotal event to discuss the financial future of UK universities before MAC report, now in May! Does anyone know if Vivienne Stern &/or Jamie Arrowsmith will be attending? At this critical juncture when it comes to #university’s fiscal survival, international #studentrecruitment will be essential to universities if they are to weather the storm, just at a time when the government is making it far more challenging to recruit from overseas. TURN UP was a campaign run by the National Union of Students (UK) in 2023 to ensure students registered to vote. We are borrowing the campaign at an unprecedented time for #universities many of which are announcing significant cost cuts, which will undoubtedly impact #students. Cost cuts announced by the University of Aberdeen University of Brighton Coventry University University of East Anglia The University of Huddersfield Northumbria University University of Portsmouth Queen Mary University of London Sheffield Hallam University University of South Wales Staffordshire University University of Surrey University of Winchester, including some form of staff redundancies & no doubt more will follow. No university is immune to financial difficulties from the MillionPlus - The Association for Modern Universities University Alliance (UK) Russell Group of Universities & non-aligned. Having spoken to numerous universities in the last week, a dialogue regarding if UK #poststudywork is severely curtailed or axed, what’s Plan B, is essential & The Pie is the last chance before MAC report, now in May to have the conversation & make important decisions as to the future direction of UK #internationaleducation. There is a “Plan B” if sector bodies are willing to invest in International Futures! If the sector pivot immediately to evidencing the fact that inbound international #studentrecruitment is largely #immigration neutral, with by far the majority of #internationalstudents returning to their home countries & into successful #careers following their studies. This is of huge benefit to the UK driving direct inward investment & building #softpower. Not only that it is of huge benefit to the world reducing #braindrain & going some way to achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals #sdgs. MAC reports in the Autumn, so if the sector commission Non EU #graduateoutcomes data in the Spring, they have a chance of submitting their findings before MAC reports, universities would have a Plan B & #psw could receive a stay of execution? Asia Careers Group SDN BHD - Investing in International Futures AGCAS British Council BUILA Department for Business and Trade Department for Education Jisc Office for Students UCAS UKCISA Universities UK Universities UK International #weareinternational #PIELIVE24

Interesting comments from Matt Durnin on student diversification and source markets. The key takeaway is that India's growth trajectory will differ from China's. While China experienced double-digit economic growth for over a decade, no one is predicting that level of growth for India—rather, we're looking at a more optimistic 6-7%. Beyond India, other markets have potential, but their scale and growth opportunities are much smaller in comparison. As Matt said, 'So the next two markets that I get asked about most often, Indonesia and Nigeria, very interesting markets, but just in terms of scale and level of development, much smaller in terms of opportunity.The takeaway that I wanna leave you with is that when we talk about diversification, we talk about moving on beyond a focus on China and India, everything gets really small, really fast.'" The PIE #internationaleducation #AFR

Please join us next week when we will be reviewing key sector trends and topics impacting higher education in the United Kingdom, France, and the Netherlands. More information and registration via the link: https://ow.ly/cGBz50TAYmo #publicfinance #highereducation

I went to The Sutton Trust's launch of the OECD - OCDE's Education at a Glance yesterday. As always, it's a fascinating and really thought-provoking read. Key takeaways for me were: - Interesting uptick in young people in the UK studying for a tertiary qualification, which is well above the OECD average. With expenditure on tertiary education in the UK almost twice the OECD average, these will be really important findings for the university funding debate. - Sadly there has been no real improvement since 2016 in the proportion of young people in the UK getting upper-secondary qualifications. Not having this level of attainment has a real impact on work prospects for this group, which is particularly pronounced for women. We need to think hard about how to tackle this issue if we are to ease baked-in disadvantage. - There continues to be huge amounts of regional variation in attainment rates in the UK, compared with other OECD countries. Getting the current place-based emphasis on school and system improvement right feels fundamental to improvement here, as well as making sure broader policies don't make the variation even more stark.

Australia introduced a new bill in May 2024, setting a cap of 270,000 on the number of international students that can be enrolled in higher education institutions. This move aims to balance the economic benefits international students bring with the need to maintain high educational standards and manage housing shortages, particularly in major cities. By implementing a cap, the government hopes to ensure that infrastructure can keep up with demand while preserving the quality of education for both domestic and international students. However, experts have cautioned that, if implemented, these measures could potentially slow Australia's economic growth and damage its reputation as a top international study destination. Over the past five years, Australia’s international student population has grown by 24% – the second highest growth rate among the ‘big four’ markets, just behind the UK's 26%. This highlights the strong appeal of Australian institutions to international students, but imposing caps on international enrolments could jeopardize this momentum. This brings the question, what do you think such a policy may mean for Australia's education sector in the long term? Send email to us to share your thoughts: [email protected] Julian Fisher Melody Hao Joy Tao Joel Abel Yoonsoo Song Mengdie (Melanie) Wang Jacob Baum Freddie Winterbotham Kimberly Tan

We’re waking up in the UK today to the prospect of a very different kind of government. There are promising signs of a more collaborative approach to working with the higher education sector under the new Labour administration. At the same time, we know that – as a sector and in our individual institutions – we need to evolve our own approach to working with government. We must actively demonstrate how universities can play a central role in helping to tackle the many pressing challenges that lie ahead – both at home and on the global stage. 20 years ago, the Labour government’s international education strategy, Putting the World into World-Class Education, encompassed all levels and types of education, starting at primary school. The vision was ‘of the UK as a confident, outward-looking society and a leading edge economy playing its full part in the world’. Three key goals supported this: 1.?????Equipping our children, young people and adults for life in a global society and work in a global economy 2.?????Engaging with our international partners to achieve their goals and ours 3.?????Maximising the contribution of our education and training sector and university research to overseas trade and inward investment. Charles Clarke’s Foreword to the strategy made the following observations. ‘Developing and maintaining a world-class system begins with understanding the world in which we live… It also means knowing what constitutes world-class educational standards… And it means being a global partner… It means, in short, putting the world into the world-class education to which we aspire.’ The world has moved on in unforeseen ways in the last two decades but the vision, goals and aspirations in this long-superseded strategy are still worth paying attention to.

Some great insight to benefits to the UK brought by International students at our Universities. We should also take this as a reminder to make sure that we are doing the best we can to support our students (international or otherwise) to help make sure that the benefits of UK university education are blatantly apparent and help to continue the appeal of studying in the UK. #weareinternational #studentsuccess

"Analysis conducted by London Economics for the Higher Education Policy Institute (Hepi) and Kaplan last year found that each cohort of?overseas learners is?worth an?estimated?￡41.9?billion to the UK?as a whole over the duration of their studies." Unfortunately, anti-immigration rhetoric and misinformation has led to an incredible unawareness of the huge financial value international students bring to the UK, evidenced in a recent "polling by the National Centre for Social Research that showed?71?per cent of voters now support limits on student migration. Forty-one per cent think it should be reduced from current levels". International students bring so much value to the UK and its higher education system and not only in terms of the economic benefits they bring. It is short-sighted to target them and make it harder and more unattractive for them to study in the UK. On a very basic level, university fees in the UK would go up without them.

International education is an incredibly important component of the UK economy and one of the industries the UK continues to be recognised as a world leader in. It is great to see the UK Government recognise the importance of this sector and focus on strategies to continue to develop it. https://lnkd.in/eFyfqECN #studyinuk #internationaleducation #uk