South Africa ELT’s 2017 rebound – latest EduSA stats

Three years of industry battles have taken student numbers back to 2014 levels

By Claudia Civinini

29 January 2019

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The latest 2017 statistics from language school association Education South Africa look similar to those of 2014. This calls for celebration. In 2015, an immigration policy allowing only registered ‘learning institutions’ to enrol students from overseas led to EFL student numbers falling by 28% in a year. While language schools tried to patch this up […]

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