Out of the ₤ 36.7 bn overall, roughly 10 %(₤ 3.6 bn )was generated by TNE, which grew by 17% in 2024 and was largely sustained by schools and early years TNE activities, according to the department for education.
The freshly released government figures reveal an overall growth rate of 2.5% on 2023, continuing the steady upward pattern given that 2021 when the UK government changed its reporting method.
But the boost was notably lower than the 10.8% development rate tape-recorded in between 2022 and 2023, which the government “partially” credited to the reduction in worldwide enrolments considering that 2022/23, with a 2026 survey revealing global enrolments at UK universities fell by nearly a 3rd in 2015.
“The development in TNE worth is substantially greater than the education sector as an entire and TNE will continue to provide a growth opportunity for cash-strapped UK universities,” Jan Bamford, teacher of international higher education at London Metropolitan University, informed The PIE News. 
Source: Department for Education While inviting the boost, which brings the government better to its 2030 target of ₤ 40bn, Bamford raised concerns about some “cash-strapped universities” in other places in the sector decreasing the variety of overseas check outs to TNE partners, and the quality of the student experience suffering as an outcome.
Elsewhere, the figures revealed higher education produced the majority of the total revenue at ₤ 26.6 bn, with 90% of this credited to tuition fees and living expense of worldwide students in the UK.
After that, the largest income streams in 2024 were education products and services (₤ 4.3 bn), TNE activity (₤ 3.6 bn), schools (₤ 1.1 bn) and English language training (₤ 0.8 bn).
This Might, England’s higher education guard dog discovered more than one in 3 institutions dealt with deficits last year, with the figure set to rise in 2025/26.
The concern stays the quality of the trainee experience at TNE partners
Jan Bamford, London Metropolitan University
Meanwhile, the federal government’s highly anticipated International Education Technique (IES) released at the start of the year set out a vibrant aspiration for the UK education sector to jointly grow education exports to ₤ 40bn per year by the end of 2030– development that will need to come from the wider education ecosystem, not from incoming student recruitment.
Amidst the increase of branch campuses and other types of TNE activity, the variety of trainees registered in UK universities offshore reached 670,000 in 2023/24 while the number of global trainees in the UK fell to 685,000, as TNE enrolments close the gap with onshore international trainees.
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