The 125 English UK members in the QUIC scheme – representing 41 per cent of total membership of the association – collectively hosted 119,721 student weeks in the Q2 (April-June) period.
2025 Q2 vs previous years: Comparing centres that also provided data in previous years, English UK said that there was a 15 per cent decrease in weeks compared with Q2 2024, suggesting a “slower seasonal build up that usual”.
The largest impact was in the junior segment, where weeks declined by 25 per cent compared with Q2 2024, while adult student weeks dropped by 13 per cent.
2019, 2024 and 2025 Q2 trends. Data source - English UK/Bonard.
The overall recovery rate against 2019 volumes dropped to 68 per cent in Q2 2025, while recovery of the junior sector declined to 57 per cent.
The Q2 segment is traditionally the second largest of the year in terms of volume of junior student week volume as the lead-up to the crucial Q3 July-September period.
Source markets: Overall, Saudi Arabia continued as the top source country with 21,555 student weeks, despite a decrease of 2,647 weeks compared with 2024 Q2. Turkiye was the second-ranked market in Q2 and also had the strongest year-on-year growth with an additional 1,971 weeks.
The top five - which was unchanged from Q2 2024 - was completed by Italy, Brazil and South Korea.
In the junior segment, the top five source markets were Italy, Spain, Türkiye, Mexico and Germany in 2025 Q2.
Some source markets, including Türkiye, Argentina and Ukraine were performing above pre-pandemic levels in Q2, English UK said. However, Russia, China and Italy had the lowest recovery rates against 2019 volumes.
Booking channels: Agents accounted for more than three-quarters of bookings (77 per cent), the authors said, a ratio that has remained relatively stable across the last six years. Similarly, 79 per cent of student weeks were from individual students, while the remainder were group bookings.
The top source markets in 2025 Q2. Source - English UK/Bonard.
Course type: General English remained comfortably the most common course type for adult students, accounting for 90 per cent of weeks, followed by English for Academic Purposes (seven per cent) and Business English (two).
For juniors, General English was again the most prominent at 61 per cent, followed by summer camps (39).
English UK’s research partner Bonard said that few competitor destinations publish quarterly data in the same way as the UK, and added that the broader picture across the global ELT sector in 2025 has been a decrease.
Ivana Bartosik, International Education Director, said that policy uncertainty including enrolment caps in some destinations, visa restrictions, changes in government, economic downturns in key markets and volatile currencies have affected mobility globally.
Click here to access the Executive Summary of the English UK QUIC Q2 2025 data.
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