Trends in global education
More than 1,400 talented young people from 95 nationalities across every inhabited continent have applied to this year’s Nsouli Scholars Programme, a fully funded global scholarship initiative designed to provide life-changing educational opportunities to exceptional pupils who may otherwise be unable to access them and provided by Inspired Education.
Inspired Education is a leading global group of 125 premium schools with 95,000 students on six continents. Nadim M. Nsouli, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Inspired Education, spoke to Marianne Curphey about the reasons for the scholarship programme and the wider trends in international education.
Record demand for Inspired scholarship programmes
The Nsouli Scholars Programme, which was founded in 2024 by Nadim Nsouli, has attracted a record number of applications this year, with four Palestinian scholars selected through the programme’s humanitarian access pathway.
“To succeed, you need luck and you need to work hard because it is not enough just to be smart. You also need to have empathy and emotional intelligence, and to have the resilience to rise to the challenges that you will come up against in life.”
Nadim M. Nsouli, Founder, Chairman and CEO at Inspired Education Group
Nsouli said the figures underline the scale of global demand for educational opportunity among high-potential young people whose ambitions are too often limited by financial circumstance. The 2026 to 2027 cohort includes scholars from Indonesia, Peru, Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya, India and Belgium, alongside four scholars from Palestine who have been selected through the programme’s humanitarian access pathway.
” Education enabled me to pursue my career and ultimately build Inspired Education that has 15,000 people employed around the world and educates 95,000 children globally. Without the opportunity to study outside Lebanon, I might not have had the chance to build this company and create the benefits for people who study and work at our schools. I hope the scholarship programme will help to change students’ lives because I have seen the value of educational opportunities in my own life.“
Nadim M. Nsouli, Founder, Chairman and CEO at Inspired Education Group
…For further coverage of IPSEF Global 2026 read our digital Guide to International Education & Schools 2025/26.
