This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Janet Ilieva, Founder and Director at Education Insight, and Vangelis Tsiligiris, an Associate Professor at the Nottingham Business School at Nottingham Trent University.
The big picture: the collapse of EU demand for UK higher education
The recent data release from the Higher Education Statistics Agency shows that global demand for UK higher education continued to expand.
There were almost 680,000 international students in 2021/22, 12% more than the previous year. The UK continued to build on the momentum achieved during the pandemic, when national borders remained open, and international travel was less disrupted than in other countries. Unlike most international study destinations, student mobility to the UK did not decline. The reintroduction of post-study work visas in 2021 aligned the UK with other countries and further boosted international student demand.
