The Market Monitor Digest (week 32/2025)
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International Education
Australia: Managed growth for a sustainable international education sector
By Australian Government, Aug 04, 2025
The Australian Government remains committed to a high quality, resilient international education sector with sustainable growth. The Australian Government has announced a National Planning Level of 295,000 for 2026. A National Planning Level of 295,000 for 2026 is 25,000 places higher than 2025, to support Government’s commitment to managed growth and a sustainable international education sector.
Malaysia & UK: Full TNE potential still emerging, Nottingham Malaysia head says
By Times Higher Education, Aug 03, 2025
Employability figures can show the worth of branch campuses to the countries in which they are based but universities still need to do more to communicate the benefits of transnational education, according to the head of the University of Nottingham’s Malaysia
India & UK, Australia: Foreign universities enter India, raising hopes for end to ‘brain drain’
By South China Morning Post, Aug 03, 2025
India’s ambition to establish itself as a premier global education hub is gathering pace, with top institutions from the United Kingdom and Australia launching campuses under a government policy to internationalise the country’s higher education system.
US & Africa: Nigerian students among those hit with 3-month US visas
By The PIE News, Aug 04, 2025
In an underreported development, the US state department has reduced the maximum entry and validity periods of nonimmigrant visas for 26 countries, 21 of which are in Africa. Notably, international students from Nigeria and Ghana will only be eligible for single entry, three-month visas to the US – a key development causing further uncertainty among prospective students from these key source countries.
Saudi Arabia: Saudi’s K-12 sector “booming” – and demand only set to grow
By The PIE News, Aug 05, 2025
The appetite for private K-12 education in Saudi Arabia is surging alongside the country's GDP. The K-12 market in Saudi Arabia “is just booming” – with demand growing in particular for international schools. Some 17-18% of children in Saudi Arabia attend private K-12 institutions, with the private sector accounting for about 12-15% of the market.
UK: International student acceptance rate rises in Scotland
By Research Professional News, Aug 05, 2025
The number of international undergraduate students accepted at Scottish universities and colleges has increased 5.4 per cent year on year, with 3,660 placed in higher education institutions. The data, released by UCAS as exam results were announced on 5 August, revealed that the international student acceptance rate in Scotland has risen for the second year running.
Australia: Australia expands accepted English language tests for visa applications
By The PIE News, Aug 07, 2025
Over the last four months, student search data is spiking for selected study destinations in Asia and the Middle Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, and South Korea continue to attract greater interest, and each is recording significant gains in Q2 amidst continued policy disruption and/or visa delays in other major destinations.
UK & UAE: Why UK private schools still want to open in the Middle East
By School Management Plus, Aug 07, 2025
For more than two decades, UK independent schools have been establishing a presence in the Middle East with the likes of Repton, Brighton College, and Cranleigh in the vanguard. However, as more schools entered the market, competition intensified and by the early 2010s, Dubai and Abu Dhabi had reached saturation, with a growing number of international and local providers, such as GEMS, offering British-style education.
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