Sponsor of: TNE - Pipelines to progression: International schools and Country spotlight - Vietnam panels

Grok helps education institutions succeed in their international engagements and recruitment. Our in-country support in China, India, and Southeast Asia keeps institutions in control of their strategies while providing local expertise and resources to ensure those strategies are executed effectively.
As a non-agent service provider, we’re a neutral party that extends an institution’s capabilities via local staffing, marketing, advisory, partnerships, and high school engagement services. More than 100 universities, colleges, schools, and governments from the UK, Australia, USA, Canada, Ireland, and New Zealand have engaged our on-the-ground solutions in Asia since 2005.

Our team of VR developers, designers, and language education experts together built the Virtual Language Experience Platform – a research-backed and pedagogically-sound tool specifically designed to enable language schools to transform their classrooms into VR learning experiences.
Using the VLEP, our language education partners can easily create personalized VR English lessons, facilitate, observe, and assess student learning, and help their students have fun and develop real-life fluency from anywhere around the world.

London South Bank University is a cosmopolitan, entrepreneurial, and creative thinking university based just minutes from the River Thames. For over 125 years LSBU has offered vocationally focussed degrees. Consequently, the university has been repeatedly awarded for our work related to graduate employment.

We are proud of our super-diverse student body, and the facilities offered to them. Students are supported by first-class technology, convenient accommodation, and one of Europe’s largest Virtual Engineering suites. When combined with academics who are genuinely prepared to go the extra-distance for our students to succeed, LSBU is a great place to study.

Navitas is a leading global education provider that has helped generations of learners transform their lives through education. Over the last 40 years, hundreds of thousands of learners from around the world have graduated from Navitas colleges, having experienced a teaching and learning environment that supports them to harness their talents and achieve their dreams. We create life-changing opportunities to learn by delivering an extensive range of educational services to over 70,000 aspirational students across our global network of more than more than 120 colleges and campuses each year.

Sponsor of: Digital student recruitment: Disruptive tech practioners' view panel discussion

Akero Advertising is an AI-integrated self-service advertising and planning tool developed for advertisers and marketers. Combining cutting-edge technology with human expertise, the software is able to scan billions of data points simultaneously, cross-referencing advertising objectives against thousands of similar campaigns, before generating bespoke media plans that offer a guaranteed minimum amount of clicks or impressions.

Designed and developed exclusively for student-specialist marketers and recruiters, Akero helps education marketers to improve marketing performance and increase student enrolments. Akero already supports over 300 global colleges and universities, helping them reach, engage and enrol more students by focusing on the unique challenges faced in student recruitment – with technology solutions built from 10 years’ expertise in reaching, attracting, nurturing and converting millions of students.

Sponsor of: Digital student recruitment: Disruptive tech solutions panel discussion

Cialfo is an AI driven solution that brings together people, software, and data to simplify college and career counseling workflows. Students, counselors, parents, college representatives use Cialfo to hope, dream and collaborate. We’re on a mission to make higher education accessible for 100 million students. Cialfo has offices in Washington DC, Singapore, Shanghai and New Delhi.

Sponsor of: TNE: Building resilient partnerships panel discussion

Coventry University is the UK’s most globally engaged university across a broad waterfront with sector leading international activities spanning recruitment, collaborative delivery, internationalisation of the curriculum, student and staff mobility, student enhancement and, more recently, international research collaboration. Underpinned by a sophisticated International Strategy, the University has been on a 10 year journey to innovate in the international arena to deliver benefits for students, staff and stakeholders. Growth in its overseas numbers in the UK, including with the launch of its London campus means it’s one of the larger UK universities; it also has almost 20,000 students outside the UK.

Sponsor of TNE: Policy landscape panel discussion

Wells Advisory is a specialist higher education management consulting firm offering services in and from Australia and the UK. We have a particular focus on strategy, governance and regulation.
Higher education is changing rapidly around the world. We work with our public and private institutional clients at the most senior level to help them negotiate the challenges and take advantage of the opportunities presented by change.
Our firm creates value for its clients through shaping business and regulatory strategy and by combining unique expertise in academia, higher education management, and its regulation.

Sponsor of: Country spotlight: Nigeria panel discussion

Honoris United Universities is the first and largest pan-African private higher education network committed to educating the next generation of African leaders and professionals able to impact regionally in a globalized world. Collaborative intelligence, cultural agility and mobile mind-sets and skills are at the heart of Honoris’ vision of higher education. Honoris gathers a community of 57,000 students in 14 institutions across 70 campuses, learning centres and via on-line, in 10 countries and 32 cities.

Sponsor of: Country spotlight: India panel discussion

Kaplan, a leading global provider of education and training with operations in more than 30 countries, has been helping students achieve their educational and career goals for more than 80 years.
Working in partnership with 40 eminent universities around the world, Kaplan International supports the higher education sector to achieve internationalisation and diversity ambitions. Kaplan International operates on- and off-campus pathway programmes to prepare international students for degree-level study at Kaplan’s partner universities. Kaplan also offers innovative solutions including Transnational Education, online delivery, targeted direct student recruitment, and student residences.

Sponsor of: Country spotlight: Malaysia

Founded in 2008, Sannam S4 is a rapidly expanding international market entry service provider operating in over 20 countries. Delivering a unique turn-key service model, we provide in-country expertise and a range of practical support services in key overseas markets to over 350+ organisations.
Our solutions enable organisations to successfully explore, enter and expand into dynamic, high-growth markets. Sannam S4 won the UK-India Consultancy Firm of the Year Award in 2018 & 2019.

With a Global footprint that currently spans 33 cities in 12 countries and continually growing, AECC Global is an education and migration agency that is making waves internationally. Headquartered in Melbourne, we take pride in our commitment to helping our clients actualize their foreign education and immigration dreams with ethical, unbiased and honest guidance. Our 500+ staff members speak 21 different languages and have serviced students from over 40 different nationalities in the years that we have been in operation. 500+ top universities and schools globally have entrusted us as representatives, and we help students find their dream education in Australia, Canada, Dubai, Germany, Ireland, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, Thailand, UK, and USA by guiding them in each step from course options, school selection, scholarships, credits, application process, visa grants, arrival and ongoing support making their overseas education journey as seamless as possible. We have a client satisfaction rate of 99%* and our student counselling services are always FREE.

STREETS recognizes the important role that tourism plays in developing economies. It is often one of the first and largest sectors to experience growth and expansion.
STREETS provides impoverished youth with professional level training and apprenticing, including English language and life skills, for careers in culinary arts and hospitality service. Our program responds to the growing resource demands of the hospitality sector in Vietnam and beyond.
STREETS is an actual social enterprise - integrating both business and philanthropy. We significantly support the program through our multiple culinary enterprises.

Founded in 2015, Yocket is India's largest community-driven online platform for international education. We help students aspiring to study abroad bridge the gap between them and their dream university & also help them fund their overseas education. We've helped over 450,000 students plan their overseas education.

We’ve been a one stop platform for over 150 universities from the USA, UK, Canada & Australia for their international recruitment from countries like India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Nigeria and more.

CultureWorks is a blended learning, English language school headquartered in Canada. For twenty-two years it has graduated students to post-secondary schools from its on-campus presence in London and Ottawa.
Students study in a combination of online, live streamed classes with a finishing level in either Canada or the U.S.. In 2019, 100% of online students experienced increased English scores on standardized tests.
Enrolled students are granted conditional admission to college and university programs in Canada and the U.S., from undergraduate to graduate, MBA, and diploma programming.

Since 2012 GlobalExam has been helping students, employees and job seekers to succeed in their mobility and employability projects.
Our online training courses allow you to obtain the language certification you need (preparation for the 30 most important certifications in 5 languages) and to acquire essential Business English skills.
As a blended learning solution, we support more than 900,000 learners and 800 Higher Education schools all around the world for the success of their projects and the digitalization of teaching.

As a member of the LCI Education network, which includes 23 higher education campuses around the world, LaSalle College Montréal and LaSalle College Vancouver are proud of their direct link between the workplace and the field of education, not only in Canada but around the world.

Founded in 1991, Oxford International is an accredited private education provider that create life-enhancing educational experiences for students worldwide. Our courses help over 50,000 students worldwide achieve academic success every year. We have built strong relationships with education consultants and partners globally and pride ourselves on delivering the best programmes for their students.

SI-UK a global UK HE focused agency started operations in Tokyo 15 years ago. SI-UK global assists over 50,000 international students annually through 58 offices in 25 countries - expanding to over 100 offices by 2023. SI-UK manages more than 40 websites attracting over 50 million visitors a year and conducts over 130 large-scale UK education fairs worldwide annually. We take great pride in our management, teams, brand, technology and the quality of service provided to students and universities.