My latest research has focused on assessing the impacts of Brexit and Covid-19 on the enrolment of offshore (transnational) overseas students studying for degrees at British universities. Offshore overseas students study for (in this case British) university degrees without ever physically studying in the UK. Not only are these students widely dispersed across the world, but there are three main types of offshore provision (branch campuses, distance learning and institutional partnerships) which significantly adds to the complexity of the structure and functioning of markets for transnational education.

All British universities with TNE students were surveyed. Over three-quarters of them provided information on their current TNE enrolments. The survey results show that UK transnational higher education enrolments fell appreciably between the academic year (AY) 2019/20 (which finished in July 2020) and the end of the first term of AY 2020/21 (in late November-early December 2020). However, there is considerable variation in the size of these impacts both respect to geographical region and type of provision. Similarly, some UK universities have been more seriously affected than others.  

Read more in my working paper no 11