English UK's quarterly student statistics and benchmarking scheme
The UK English language teaching (ELT) sector continues to evolve, with shifting demand, maturing markets and ongoing uncertainty. We recognise that access to timely, reliable data is essential for our members to make informed decisions.
English UK's Quarterly Intelligence Cohort (QUIC) provides in-year insights based on student week data. While our annual student statistics reports offer a comprehensive retrospective view, QUIC enables member centres to monitor seasonal performance, track short-term changes in demand, and benchmark against sector peers throughout the year.
QUIC at a glance
- Who it is for: English UK member centres
- What it is: A voluntary, cost-recovery quarterly insights scheme, analysed and reported by BONARD
- What it supports: Evidence-informed planning, market prioritisation, and peer benchmarking
- What you get: A quarterly top-line snapshot report (all members) or detailed reports, datasets and webinars (participants only)
QUIC insights
Snapshot reports
All stakeholders can access our quarterly snapshot reports summarising headline UK-wide trends and the overall direction of travel. This provides useful context for sector awareness and discussion. View the Q1 2026 snapshot report.
Full report and additional outputs
Centres contributing data receive all QUIC outputs, including the full report, complete with detailed source market and course type breakdowns, pivot table datasets and exclusive monthly webinar.
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What QUIC participants receive
Participants have access to a set of outputs designed to support planning and performance review:
- Full quarterly reports, structured with a clear hierarchy to present key trends alongside more detailed analysis
- Market and segment breakdowns, including source markets, age groups, course types, booking channels and regional distribution
- Interactive pivot table datasets that enable granular analysis by sector, region, provider type, and market, so centres can extract insights tailored to their own context.
- Cumulative annual dataset covering the full cohort year
- Expert-led webinars providing additional context and commentary to each quarter's results
In 2026, greater emphasis is placed on improving the usability and accessibility of outputs. Key enhancements include:
- A revised report structure, with clearer hierarchy and improved signposting
- More consistent separation of adult and junior data
- Integration of future outlook survey results into the main report narrative
- Greater focus on year-on-year comparisons with less emphasis on 2019 pre-pandemic benchmarks
- Additional dataset filters to support more flexible analysis, including quarterly year-on-year comparisons
- Updated tutorial resources to support effective use of the outputs
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QUIC operates on a cost-recovery basis. Participation fees cover the cost of the data analysis and report production by English UK's insight partner, BONARD.
- £305 +VAT (individual member)
- £60 + VAT (each additional centre within a group)
- Group fees capped at £545 +VAT
Example: a group with three centres pays £305 + (2 x £60) = £425 + VAT.
- Open to all English UK members
- Runs on an annual cycle (four quarters)
- New participants can join ahead of the Q1 submission deadline (April) each year
- Participation is on a rolling basis and so renews automatically annually
Contact Roz McGill, our market development and insights manager, if you are interested in participating in the 2027 cohort.
- Core metric: student weeks (one student studying 10+ teacher-led hours per week). Students studying fewer hours are excluded.
- Coverage: based on consistent data from participating centres across the reporting cycle. For the 2026 cohort, this is around 40% of the membership, teaching approximately 60% of total student weeks.
- Accurate geographical reporting: data is reported at the level of individual teaching premises to show the true UK-wide distribution of students, eg. in 2026, data returns from up to 221 premises (depending on the time of year they operate) rather than aggregating them into 116 member centres.
- Quality and standards: analysis is conducted by English UK's insight partner, BONARD, in accordance with international research standards.
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What data is needed and when
Participants must submit quarterly student week data, split by:
- Source market
- Age group (adult vs junior)
- Course type (x5 adult and x3 junior)
- Group vs individual bookings
- Agent vs direct bookings
2026 quarterly reporting cycle
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Quarter
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Reporting period and
submission deadline
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QUIC participant
results issued
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Public snapshot
published
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Q1
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29 Dec 2025 – 29 Mar 2026
(submit by 14 April)
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Mid May
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Early June
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Q2
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30 Mar – 28 Jun 2026
(submit by 10 July)
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Mid Aug
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Early Sept
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Q3
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29 Jun – 27 Sep 2026
(submit by 9 Oct)
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Mid Nov
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Early Dec
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Q4
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28 Sep 2026 – 3 Jan 2027
(submit by 15 Jan)
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Late Feb
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Mid March
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Download an example submission form (the actual form is in Excel format)
Read the QUIC: submission guidelines 2026 for full details
Resources
Submission guidance
Software support (to extract data for the quarterly submission)
Information provided by software suppliers to support data extraction for submissions.
Reports and outputs
Latest QUIC news stories
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What do participants say about QUIC?
"The QUIC reports are an invaluable source of data for anyone involved in English language provision in the UK." - Lisa James, Embassy Summer
"We all need data to know what is happening in the industry. This is the best source of data… [we use it to] see which markets we are not fully exploiting, and which markets we should be making more of an effort with." - Val Hennessy, International House Bristol
"It's invaluable data and I highly recommend all schools join." - Farhan Quraishi, Speak Up London
