Helix4HE named as a 2026 nominee We are pleased to announce that Helix4HE, a brand of HelixOne Global, has been nominated in The Founders Awards 2026 in the Education & Training category. The award category is “Institutional Advisory in Strategy, Performance and Transformation.” The Founders Awards recognises UK businesses in their first twelve months of trading. Helix4HE is listed as a nominee under reference FA-GZD4-NZSV. The nomination was submitted on 21 October 2026, an

How Polish universities are supporting adult education, professional development and the skills needed for a changing economy. Poland’s educational expansion: a foundation for transformation Poland’s educational transformation after 1989 provides an important example of how widening access to education can accompany profound economic and social change. The transition from a centrally planned economy to an internationally connected market economy created new demands for know

Strengthening international engagement through local expertise, institutional understanding and meaningful collaboration. Helix4HE is delighted to announce the appointment of Ashesh Upreti as our Independent Market Representative in Nepal, an exciting development in our growing international network and our engagement with higher education institutions across Asia. Ashesh brings extensive knowledge of Nepal's higher education sector, established professional relationships and

Chinese students accounted for 30% of Student visa expiries but only 10% of Graduate Route grants. The numbers do not tell us why, but they raise an important question about how universities prepare students for what comes next. International education is increasingly being judged not simply by who enrols, but by what happens after graduation. For UK universities, Chinese students present a particularly interesting case. Official UK Home Office data covering the Graduate Rout

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

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 Dr. 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 UK Slovak 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: “W