What is shaping your international intake, and how should you respond?
The Intake IQ Collaborative is a confidential, eight-week programme bringing together up to five universities to work through live international intake challenges.
Members bring their own questions to discussions prepared and facilitated by Intake IQ, sharing what they are encountering and how they are responding.
Each university receives private written analysis of what the shared learning could mean for its own intake, helping teams decide what to investigate, monitor or change while there is still time to influence outcomes.
Explore the programme format, time commitment, fees and participation process.
The decision challenge
Making decisions before the full picture is clear
During a live intake, teams need to make decisions while the picture is still developing. Internal evidence and expertise remain essential. Relevant peer experience can help teams test assumptions, recognise early signs and consider practical responses.
For example
Why are engaged offer-holders delaying payment?
Other universities can share whether they face similar hesitation and what their conversations with applicants have uncovered about currency pressures, deposit terms or how these are understood. Learning what they tried and what followed gives your team experience to draw on when reviewing its own policy, communications and support.
Are peers seeing similar credibility concerns in this market?
Peers recruiting from the same market can share whether they see the same concerns and whether these are concentrated in particular courses, applicant profiles or recruitment channels. Hearing what they investigated, how they responded and what followed helps your team identify distinctions to test against its own evidence. This can inform decisions about whether to adjust checks or support.
These are illustrative examples. Questions may concern any stage of the applicant journey, from initial enquiry to enrolment. Members’ emerging priorities shape each cycle, with private analysis helping each university assess what applies to its own intake.
During the intake
Four steps, repeated every two weeks
Four cycles over eight weeks, shaped by your live questions.
Private member update
Approximately 15 minutes
Share what has changed and the question your university would value exploring.
Prepared agenda
Prepared by Intake IQ
We prioritise questions, possible explanations and where peer experience could help.
Facilitated forum
Approximately 60 minutes
Explore relevant experience, differences in context and what to check next.
Private Cycle Debrief
Prepared by Intake IQ
Receive independent written analysis of what the discussion means for your university, including practical next steps.
Across the cycles
Learning together as the intake unfolds
Each cycle builds on what members encounter, how they respond and what happens next. This helps each university recognise early signs, test its assumptions and prepare for emerging challenges without having to learn every lesson in isolation.
After the intake
Turning outcomes into clearer priorities
A private Independent Intake Review connects the programme’s learning and your university’s responses with its intake outcomes. Together with a closing discussion, it identifies what to retain, adjust or investigate for the next intake.
Participation
Selected for relevance, limited for focus
Relevant peers
Up to five universities are selected for overlap in their intake and operating context, giving members common ground for useful discussion while recognising differences in their circumstances.
Confidential exchange
Members share experience within a confidential group, with no university rankings. Written analysis and the Independent Intake Review remain private to each university.
Clear information boundaries
No applicant-level data, raw datasets or commercially sensitive information is required. Defined confidentiality and data-protection boundaries apply.
The Founding Cohort
Explore participation
Get in touch to discuss your university’s intake, priorities and suitable programme timing.
How participation is confirmed
Establish mutual fit
Discuss your intake and whether the programme would be useful.
Agree conditional terms
Where there is mutual interest, agree terms through a conditional Participation Agreement.
Review and confirm
Participation remains subject to your university accepting the proposed cohort and delivery arrangements, followed by formal programme confirmation.
No programme fee is payable until the cohort is confirmed.
Request the Overview
We’ll email you the Collaborative Overview, including programme details, time commitment, fees and next steps.