Looking at the broader student mobility climate, Ivana Bartosik, international education director of intelligence partner BONARD, said: “Across all major ELT destinations, Q2 2025 has seen a decline in student numbers.”
This slowdown appears to be driven by several converging factors… “policy uncertainty including enrolment caps, visa restrictions, and changes in government administration and an economic downturn in key source markets” said Bartosik.
Asian markets have been impacted by the trade war. Volatile exchange rates, economic slowdown and uncertainty have also affected source markets, reducing outbound student mobility.
Saudi Arabia remained the UK’s top source country overall in Q2 2025
Saudi Arabia remained the UK’s top source country overall; however, the downward trend observed in Q1 continued. The full report, which is exclusive to English UK’s QUIC participants, shows Saudi Arabia was also the leading source market in six of the seven UK regions, with Türkiye remaining in top position for the London region.
Türkiye was the second largest source market for adult students, after Saudi Arabia, and the third for juniors in Q2.
English UK’s 2025 Q2 QUIC results show varied performance across individual markets. Türkiye, Argentina, and Ukraine exceeded their 2019 volumes and Russia, China, and Italy had the lowest recovery rates.
Q2 student weeks were just 3% above those of Q1. Junior student weeks dropped by 25% on Q2 2024, while adult weeks were down 13%.
Recovery rates varied by age group, with the junior segment trailing at just 57% of 2019 volumes.
Q2 2025 at a glance
119.7k ELT student weeks: 85% adult and 15% junior
Adult student weeks dropped 13% and juniors dropped 25% compared to Q2 2024
Overall recovery fell to 68% of the Q2 2019 volume
Top 5 adult source markets: Saudi Arabia, Türkiye, Brazil, Japan, and South Korea
Top 5 junior source markets: Italy, Spain, Türkiye, Mexico, and Germany
23% of bookings were direct, and 77% commissionable
79% were individual bookings, a ratio that has stayed consistent in recent years
The top 20 markets sent 89% of all student weeks, up 1% on Q2 2024
143 teaching premises were open in Q2*, up 2% vs Q2 2024
n = 125 English UK member centres in the 2025 QUIC cohort (with 234 advertised teaching premises in Q2*)
> Download the QUIC Q2 2025 executive summary
SOURCE/CREDIT: English UK
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