Nationality
British
Qualification
English Literature
Bio
Aaron Porter is the Hotcourses Director of Insights. His role is to delve into the data and statistics from across the Hotcourses websites and share this is as comment and thought pieces. He has worked extensively across the higher education sector. Outside of work he is a qualified football referee, a school governor in South London, plays the bagpipes and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts.
Hotcourses data, which supports over 23 million users to research international study each year, has seen a noticeable increase in international students looking to study in the United Kingdom since the vote to leave the European Union. Comparing the four weeks in the run up to the referendum vote (May 26 th - June 23 rd ) with the four weeks following the referendum (June 24 th – July 21 st ), there has been an increase in the market share of
Hotcourses is delighted to launch its first destination country report which focuses on the demand from prospective international students looking to study in Malaysia. The exponential rise of Malaysia as a popular destination for international students is being globally recognised. As a country, Malaysia has already seen rapid growth in international student numbers. From just 28000 in 2002, to 135000 in 2014, and plans to reach 250,000 by 2025
Last week we got confirmation of what many in the UK HE sector had feared for years was coming. The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) published data which outlined that India had slipped to 3 rd in the list of countries sending students to the UK (behind China and now the USA). The downward trajectory in numbers heading from India to the UK is not new news. Since 2010, numbers have started to slide significantly. Indeed between 2010 and
