Transnational education will resist the post-pandemic recruitment crunch

A global recession will accelerate the latest shift away from high-cost study destinations, say Janet Ilieva and David Pilsbury

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February 27, 2021

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February 27, 2021

Janet Ilieva David Pilsbury

A traveller in a face mask at a railway station in Suzhou, China, illustrating the downturn in Chinese international students post-Covid

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