Oil price drop fallout could hit UK universities

In recent years, UK universities have been able to rely upon a generously funded recruitment well – students backed by government-funded scholarships in oil producing countries, underwritten by 100 dollar…

Update on Application Trends

The trends highlighted by UK NARIC last year seem to be continuing. The latest figures from UK NARIC and UK NCP confirm that the trend for increased mobility of citizens…

Application Trends – English Speaking Africa

The 2009 figures from UNESCO showed that there were 3.3 million outwardly mobile students across the world. The regions with the largest number of mobile students are East Asia and…

Further Trends from Western Europe

Further to the Application Trends from Western Europe, there are some interesting statistics which highlight the same points from the membership enquiries we receive. Member Enquiries Universities and Colleges make…

Application Trends from Western Europe

The increasing mobility of the European workforce in recent years can be noticed through an increase in the number of individuals applying to UK NARIC from Western Europe. In 2008,…

Application Trends from North America

In a previous monthly article, a broad overview of UK NARIC applicant data from African countries was provided – the following brief summary explores similar recent trends in enquiry numbers…

Are Africa and Middle East the new areas of growth for UK?

Latest figures from UK NARIC (2011 vs. 2010) highlight that there has been a reduction in the usage of service related to Southern Asia , while there has been an…

What has happened to the A8 countries?

In May 2004 the EU expanded to include the A8 countries; the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia.  In the subsequent period, there has been a…