Held at the Arena Berlin, Germany, the annual event hosted by think tank The Class of 2020 welcomed a record delegation of more than 800 investors, operators, government officials and institutions for the one-day conference.

Student accommodation investors with large amounts of capital are targeting “super-sized” cities with vast numbers of international students.

After its peak in 2014, confirmation comes that the global English language travel sector has entered maturity. From a destination perspective, the times of double-digit year-on-year increases are long gone and the international arena effectively constitutes a zero-sum game – destinations are growing at each other’s expense.

English UK has held a series of workshops around the UK to help language schools and ELT providers prepare to navigate post-Brexit Britain. With stops in London, Bristol, Manchester and Edinburgh, the roadshow ran through likely scenarios for dealing with VAT, immigration and trends in the event of different Brexit outcomes.

In the recent study presented last week at Expo Real, BONARD, an independent research provider for alternative asset classes, looked into the latest trends and developments in global student housing.