🌍 India powers 30% of international students in the US.

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This week’s developments underscore India’s growing prominence in international education. The IIE Open Doors report revealed that the US now hosts 1.1 million international students, with India surpassing China as the top source. A record-breaking 331,602 Indian students contributed to this milestone. HolonIQ research projects that India will account for half a million international students studying in the US by 2030, largely driven by its growing youth population who are pursuing strong STEM focus.

Universities are also responding to growth opportunities within South Asia. Curtin University’s new Sri Lanka campus and partnerships by Rice and Johns Hopkins in India highlight a strategic push into the region. At the same time, shifts in immigration policies in Canada, New Zealand, and Australia are reshaping global student flows, paving the way for emerging destination markets to attract more students in the near future.

With two billion more postsecondary students projected by 2050 worldwide, this week’s developments underscore immense opportunities in emerging markets like India—and the need to move smart and swiftly to meet demand.

🌍 Global Student Flows

Since 2018, the Global Student Flows Project at HolonIQ has mapped and forecast the flow of international students studying at higher education institutions around the world. Powered by leading global experts and economists, a proprietary global flows framework and advanced technology to map and project over 10,000 unique country-to-country flows each year, the initiative aims to inform governments, universities, institutions and firms around the world in setting strategy, policy and allocating resources to support the growth of international education.

HolonIQ's latest research and data on international student flows can be accessed here: 2024 Global Student Flows.

🚀 HolonIQ’s Annual Education Outlook 2025

Last week we launched the 2025 Global Education Outlook, an annual analysis of the global education economy, presenting over 180 pages of detailed market data, investment & analysis, strategic shifts, and trends in education. Purchase the Report.

💪 Power Moves

💰 Amazon has invested $110M in a generative AI research program called Build on Trainium. This program provides researchers access to powerful AI accelerators to develop new AI models and architectures. 

👩🏻‍🏫 Ghana and Kenya are taking steps to improve teacher training. Ghana is aligning its programs with global standards, while Kenya is retraining 60K primary school teachers for a new curriculum for juniors-secondary education. 

🩺 Trustwise, Health Innovation KSS, Hitachi Digital Services, and Further launched MedAssist GPT, an AI-powered tool for UK medical students. This tool provides real-time clinical guidance that is aligned with NICE guidelines and NHS formulary data.

💰 Funding

🏠 Homversity, a platform for student housing in India, has secured $1M in funding to expand its operations to offer a scalable student housing operator model and expand its operations within India’s student housing market.

🤖 Apoia, a Brazilian K12 AI-powered learning platform, raised $800K in funding to scale operations across Brazil and enhance its platform. It aims to reach 500K monthly active users by the end of 2025.

👩🏻‍🏫 Twinkl, a UK-based K12 teacher preparation and development platform, acquired Natterhub to integrate and expand its resources aimed at educating children on safe internet practices.  

💻 PwC Middle East acquired Saudi Arabia-based Emkan Education, an education and skills development consultant firm, to expand PwC’s capabilities in delivering solutions for education reform, digital learning, and skills transformation in the region.

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