The Market Monitor Digest (week 40/2026)
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International Education
Vietnam: A strong economy at home is powering surging demand for study abroad
By ICEF Monitor, Sept 24, 2026
One of the major stories of 2026 is booming demand for foreign education in Vietnam, whether through mobility or TNE. Mobility is mostly intraregional, especially to advanced technology powerhouses South Korea and Taiwan. TNE activity in Vietnam is heating up as well, mainly through joint programme arrangements.
Ireland: Ireland looks overseas as minister questions international student model
By The Pie News, Sept 25, 2026
Ireland's higher education minister James Lawless has urged greater focus on teaching abroad as housing and capacity pressures test further growth in Ireland’s inbound international student market.
Ireland: US overtakes UK in soft power as more world leaders educated in America
By The Pie News, Sept 28, 2026
The US has strengthened its position as the world’s leading source of educational soft power, with 66 serving world leaders having been educated there, compared with 60 educated in the UK.
Australia: Australia’s chancellors join university peak body as governance rules tighten
By The Pie News, Sept 28, 2026
Universities Australia will take on the chancellors’ council’s work and add three chancellor directors to its board ahead of new national standards.
Qatar: Are international hubs the key to a flourishing branch campus?
By Times Higher Education, Sept 29, 2026
On the western edge of Doha, a succession of striking contemporary buildings with Islamic architectural trappings are scattered along a wide, palm tree-lined boulevard. Once nothing but desert, this 12 square kilometre sector of valuable Qatari real estate is now home to a cluster of universities, research institutions, a public library and a modern mosque.
Global: World University Rankings 2027: results announced
By Times Higher Education, Sept 30, 2026
Asian universities’ resumed upward trajectory takes them past mainland Europe for the first time, as reputational lustre protects US and UK for now.
UK: UK TNE students near 700k as overseas provision overtakes onshore international enrolment
By The Pie News, Sept 30, 2026
UK universities are now educating more students overseas through transnational education (TNE) than they are hosting international students onshore.
Scotland: Scottish universities face enduring deficits – funding council
By Times Higher Education, Sept 29, 2026
Worse is predicted in coming years, and hopes of an eventual reversal may be driven by excessive optimism about international enrolments, funding council warns.
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