ways of assessing and dealing with new market opportunities - dan shah
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Ways of assessing and dealing with new market opportunities
Dan ShahAssistant Director (Policy)
UK Higher Education International Unit
To represent the UK higher education sector internationally and to empower the sector to
secure maximum value from international opportunities.
Trends and opportunities in internationalisation
• Global trends: – Emerging powers, new markets, growth, increasingly global
knowledge economy– Competition and collaboration: Other countries investing, new
partners for collaboration and competition for mobile students– Policy prominence: European funding for research and mobility, other
governments invest in large mobility schemes – Technology: whither MOOCs?
• UK universities move to partnership models: • Diversity: all institutions are international in different ways, range of
subjects, teaching, research, innovation, international development• Complexity: government programmes, “umbrella” schemes, university
partnerships, departments, academics, business, charities, • Partnerships: strategic relationships beyond recruitment
What markets, for what?
• Jim O’Neill: BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China); MINT (Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria, Turkey), Next 11 (Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines, Turkey, South Korea, and Vietnam).
• Currency falls: Rupee, Real, Rupiah, Rouble, Rand, …• IU engagement: China, India, Malaysia, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Chile, Qatar,
Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, South Africa, Kazakhstan … Recent scoping visits: Libya, Myanmar, Peru, Ecuador, Chile, Argentina
Industrial Strategy(HMG)
The Shape of Things to Come (British Council)
The Shape of Things to Come II (British Council)
Emerging Powers?
Brazil China Colombia India Indonesia Mexico Saudi Arabia Turkey the Gulf
Absolute outbound growthIndia (71k), Nigeria (30k), Malaysia (22k), Nepal (17k), Pakistan (17k), Saudi Arabia (16k), Turkey (13k)
Well above average Hong Kong Malaysia Singapore UAE
Above average Qatar South Korea
• China • India• Brazil• Turkey• South Africa• Mexico• Chile• South East Asia• Colombia• Kazakhstan• Egypt
Strategic Fit
Income and talent to UK from overseas students
Diversity and Sustainability
Time scales and maturity
Improved research and innovation performance, productivity, reputation TNE
Education and employability– peers, staff, outward mobility
Partnerships
Context and policy
• Sources of support:– UK Government – Erasmus + – International development, DfID– Investment in scholarships
• Playing to strengths: competition (or partners?) • Information: IU, British Council, HMG, IU, each other
What is an opportunity for
you
Thank you
www.international.ac.uk
@InternationalUt
Questions for you
• What are your priorities? • Opportunities?• How do you want to work with the sector? • Learning from each other