Report reveals continued recovery for ELT sector in 2023, but also policy headwinds in 2024
- Globally, the English Language Teaching sector recovered to 84% of pre-pandemic levels in 2023
- The major growth drivers during the year were key sending markets in Latin America, and continued strength in junior enrolments
- The sector’s progress to recovery, however, has been blunted in the first half of 2024 by new policy settings in a number of top destinations
The Global ELT Annual Report for 2024 was released this week by industry research specialist firm BONARD. It paints a picture of continued recovery for the English Language Teaching (ELT) sector last year, albeit one that has been more recently buffeted by some significant policy interventions in a number of leading destinations.
The report focuses on aggregate trends for eight leading ELT destinations: the UK, Australia, Canada, the US, Ireland, New Zealand, Malta, and South Africa. It finds that the total volume of student weeks increased +34% year-over-year, allowing the sector to recover to 84% of its 2019 volume in 2023 across those eight destinations.
A similar pattern played out in terms of student numbers, for which BONARD reports a +40% increase year-over-year. In 2023, total ELT enrolments passed the 1 million student mark for first time since the onset of the pandemic and overall recovered to 78% of 2019 ...
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