Featuring Blessed Pepple, Technical Advisor, Helix4HE Advisory Board Artificial intelligence has rapidly expanded what students, educators and institutions can produce. It can generate text, analyse data, summarise research, translate content, write code, personalise information and automate processes that once required considerable human effort. The capabilities are extraordinary. Yet higher education needs to ask a more fundamental question: What should working with AI act

The landscape of international education in the United Kingdom has reached a critical juncture. For over a decade, the primary focus of institutional strategy has been the expansion of recruitment volumes, particularly from the Chinese market. However, as we navigate the mid-point of 2026, the metrics of success are shifting. We are observing a fundamental transition where the volume of arrivals is no longer the sole, or even the primary, indicator of institutional health. In

Within the current landscape of international learning, the discourse surrounding the success of Chinese students frequently centers on recruitment metrics, enrollment figures, and linguistic entry requirements. However, as we observe the professional trajectories of these individuals post-completion, a more complex and troubling narrative emerges regarding the effectiveness of institutional employability provision. While recruitment pipelines remain robust, the actualization

Featuring Adam Priestley, Helix4HE Advisory Board The Dilemma Every Smaller Institution Knows When you run an education business, the pressure to grow has a way of crowding out the discipline to govern. Margins get watched closely. Every expense gets questioned. And anything that doesn't pay off immediately tends to drift down the priority list. This plays out right across the sector, from independent training providers and language schools to smaller private universities a

The global education landscape is undergoing a significant structural shift. Recent UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) data show real progress in access, literacy and data coverage, but also persistent inequalities across regions, levels of education and fields of study. The UIS 2026 Education Data Refresh reports more than 8.26 million published education datapoints and places global youth literacy at 93 percent, while also showing that major gaps remain in completion, le

How national self-perception shapes reputation, visibility and opportunity Simona, co-curator Rebeka Jurčacková and photographer Robert Viglaský at Portraits of Slovak and Czech Britain, their exhibition promoting the Slovak and Czech diaspora in the UKSlovak Theatre London | Slovenské divadlo v Londýne In her recent article “Why not Slovakia?”, Dutch exchange student Dunja reflects on a simple but telling question she repeatedly encountered while living in Slovakia: “Why he