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TOP NATIONALITIES IN WALES BY
STUDENT WEEKS:

23.7% Saudi
23.2% Italian
19.7% Spanish
3.6% Japanese
3.2% Turkish
2.6% Korean
23.7% 23.2% 19.7% 2.1% Omani
SURVEY SHOWS TRENDS AT WELSH 1.7% Qatari
ELT SCHOOLS 8.1% 1.6% Chinese
SAUDI ITALIAN SPANISH
A special StudyTravel Magazine survey of ELT 1.4% French
schools in Wales has highlighted student and
recruitment trends in the country.
Extracting the data of Wales-based schools
from the UK Market Analysis report, the Wales
survey is based on fi ve schools – representing
more than half of the membership of English UK a lower proportion compared with 80 per cent in
Wales – that hosted 2,421 students and delivered the overall UK ELT survey.
24,870 student weeks in 2018. There was also a clear contrast in cost: the
The average stay of 7.27 weeks was average course fee for a four-week programme
signifi cantly longer than the 3.9 weeks recorded for Welsh contributors was UK£939, signifi cantly
in the overall UK survey, and there was a larger lower than the UK£1,145 average fee in the UK-
ratio of adult students. wide survey.
Saudi Arabia was the top source market, Neil Harris, Chair of English UK Wales
representing 23.7 per cent of students, followed www.englishukwales.com, said Wales was an
by Italy (23.2) and Spain (19.7). Japan (3.6) and increasingly attractive destination with popular,
Turkey (3.2) completed the top fi ve. safe locations and that “2019 appears to be very
Agents were the main recruitment channel, strong for summer bookings, particularly for the
accounting for 55 per cent of students in 2018, young learner market”. More at: bit.ly/2MN63tk

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