Dubai has a very very rich set of offerings, Some of them homegrown, some of them international, and it's a market that unlike K12 has seen quite a bit of a wobble. And if we take this data back, it's been relatively slow growth.
Having said that, in the last couple of years, we've seen a bit of a bounce back, and I think there's a renewed energy and vigor amongst number of stakeholders that we speak to to really put more students into these institutions. It's important to understand how this student breakup happens. On the left hand side you'll see is students that are locals and what we've been seeing for many years is that that's been on the decline. Local UAE nationals will tend to go to universities that are public universities typically.
A small proportion of them go to private universities. The next group is the long term resident. It's the diasporas, the Indians, the Lebanese, the folks that have been around for many, many years, and that's seen a bounce back. And they're coming to Western universities, to Indian universities, and there's been a nice bounce back there.
But where we see the biggest opportunity, coming back to the earlier trend, is this demand for international students. I think universities in Dubai can do a lot better and in fact have a responsibility to bring more students on board into their institutions here in Dubai. We're seeing too many students connect from China, from India, through Dubai on their way to the US and the UK. We would love to have them stop here and benefit from the great education that they could get here at a very affordable price relative to what they would be paying in these other markets.
