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Colleges' Growing International-Education Efforts Fuel a Quest for More Market Data, Chronicle article, June 2, 2011

Wednesday, June 08, 2011
"College international offices could soon be drowning in data.

Overseas market intelligence, particularly in the area of international-student recruitment, has become an increasingly high-stakes business. That was evident at the annual conference here of Nafsa: Association of International Educators, which wraps up here on Friday.

During the weeklong meeting, the British Council, a British-government-supported educational and cultural agency, rolled out its "education intelligence" service, which will provide detailed information and analysis of trends in global student mobility. Quacquarelli Symonds Limited, a higher-education-consulting company known as QS, announced its "Stars" system, a new institutional rating program for universities."

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