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 indicative in-year insights based on student week data. While the annual student statistics report offers 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 (all members) or detailed reports, datasets and webinars (participants only)
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Access to QUIC insights
QUIC provides two levels of insight:
Member snapshot
- All members receive a quarterly snapshot summarising headline UK-wide trends and the overall direction of travel. This provides useful context for sector awareness and discussion.
- View recent QUIC snapshot summaries
Participant outputs
- Centres that contribute data receive the full QUIC outputs, including detailed analysis, datasets and additional insights to support decision-making.
- Participants also receive early access to the snapshot ahead of wider release.
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What 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
Top-line summaries are shared more widely, while detailed outputs are available only to participating centres.
Our 2026 iteration places greater emphasis on usability and accessibility while keeping the same underlying data inputs. The key enhancements include:
- Revised report structure with clearer hierarchy and improved signposting
- More consistent separation of adult and junior data
- Integration of the outlook survey results into the main report narrative
- Greater emphasis on year-on-year comparison (prior year) through a refocus away from 2019 performance
- Additional filters in the datasets to support more flexible analysis, including year-on-year comparisons of the quarter
- Updated tutorial resources to support the use of 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
- 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 ~40% of the membership, teaching ~60% of total student weeks.
- Accurate geographical reporting: data is reported at the individual teaching premises level to show the true UK-wide distribution of the students e.g in 2026, data returns from up to 221 premises rather than aggregating these to 116 member centres.
- Quality and standards: analysis is conducted by English UK's insight partner, BONARD, in accordance with international research standards.
- Read the QUIC: submission guidelines 2026 for full details
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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
- Example submission form (the actual form is in Excel format)
Quarterly reporting cycle (2026)
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Reporting period and submission deadline
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Results issued
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Q1
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29 Dec 2025 – 29 Mar 2026 (submit by 14 April)
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Late May 2026
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Q2
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30 Mar – 28 Jun 2026 (submit by 10 July)
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Late Aug 2026
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Q3
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29 Jun – 27 Sep 2026 (submit by 9 Oct)
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Late Nov 2026
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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 2027
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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
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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
