According to the new data, the number of ELT students has fallen by 71%. The full data was revealed at a member's conference and general meeting which was held in London on May 20. The new data collected by the market research firm BONARD, also found, that as compared to 2020 the ELT market in the UK contracted further in 2021, and the student quantity was down 36% from last year.

At the member's conference and general meeting, The head of the International Education Department of BONARD NAN slobodnikov explained that strict restrictions on travel during the delta wave "affect the student's and parent's faith in international travel." Although the sum of students has improved in the second half of 2021.

Student weeks were also down by -12.9% to merely over 462,000 after decreasing by 71.1% in 2020. Due to the pandemic, members revealed information on both face-to-face courses as well as those forced courses to switch to a different mode of delivery. In 2021, 41% of students studied face to face, there are almost one in three saw tuition delivery change. According to the English UK notes around 71% of students enrolled in UK ELT in 2021 and they are from outside the EV.

The junior students suffered badly.

Before the pandemic, the junior students made up over half of the overall ELT market in the UK. Due to the covid pandemic and travel-related restrictions juniors didn't be able to travel in both the years 2020 and 2021.

In the UK, English courses are more attended by young people than adults, but children under 18 (juniors) made up only 9%of the student population in 2021. Slobodnikova also said that just because the UK was so attentive to juniors and junior students didn't travel in 2021, it suffered a lot.

Private sector and Public sector.

English UK's member mostly consists of the private sector, but in spite of that, there are 43 "state language centers as well for adult students. The recent group hosted over 13,000 International students in 2021, students week dropped by 9.2% to 141,000. The state sector students were either studying online 9% or outside the UK (62%) witnessing a serious disruption of normal business. The rest of the 18% attended both online and in-person classes.

In the private sector, 298 school declines were most pronounced. The number of students decreased by 42% to approximately 40,600 students and weeks got down by -15% to 320,960. Student visits were larger, moving from 5.4 weeks in 2020 to 7.9 weeks in 2021. The ranking of the top market was even than in the public sector.