How to Motivate Alumni to Aid Student Recruitment

Building a strong relationship with your alumni takes time and effort, but investing in keeping the lines of communication open can significantly help your student recruitment efforts, as well as growing your university brand. How alumni can aid with student recruitment We’ve already highlighted some of the ways your alumni can help improve your international

Is Your University Ready for A-level Results Day?

One of the most important and influential days in a young student’s life will be A-level results day; the day they discover the outcome of all their hard work and study over the past two years. For some however, results day will mean a quick change of plan, as those who didn’t manage to achieve

How Do Prospective Students Research Universities Online?

How do prospective students use online resources to research universities? The infographic below highlights what information prospective students search for, which resources they access and which devices they view it on. The results are from our ‘Students Online: Global Trends (2014)’ report, in which a total of 2,215 responses were collected from prospective students from 35

Are MOOCs Really a Game Changer for Higher Education?

IMD business school president, Dominique Turpin believes that MOOCs are a waste of time. During a forum in Singapore, he argued that high dropout rates and low levels of engagement meant they could only enjoy “limited results”. The term MOOC stands for ‘massive open online course.’ An unlimited amount of people can enroll onto a

International Officers Vital for International Student Recruitment

That universities continue to seek greater levels of international student recruitment is beyond doubt, but what of the people charged with fulfilling this task? The idea of placing a senior member of staff in charge of an institution’s international strategy is now commonplace, but do we know enough about the importance that is currently attached to