An article in University World News considers a soon-to-be-released report by the British Council entitled The Shape of Things to Come: Higher Education Global Trends and Emerging Opportunities to 2020. The reports forecasts enrollments to "grow by 21 million students by 2020—a huge rise in overall numbers and an average growth rate of 1.4% per year across 50 selected countries that account for almost 90% of higher education enrolments globally. But this represents a considerable slowdown compared to the 5% a year global enrolment growth typical of the previous two decades, and record enrolment growth of almost 6% between 2002 and 2009."
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