“International education remains a priority for individuals who want to broaden their outlooks, institutions that want to expand their offerings and resources as well as governments that want to increase their national competitiveness and human capital.  As such, the global higher education sector has shown strong, sustained growth in past decades despite intermittent economic uncertainty and demographic change. This report, which focuses exclusively on student mobility, builds upon the findings of the shape of things to come: higher education global trends and emerging opportunities to 2020, published by the British Council in 2012.  This research extends the forecasts of key international student mobility indicators and markets to 2024 and also includes analyses on three economic and non-economic scenarios in international education to better understand the possible effects of the future global environment.”