June 21, 2022
UK Delegation in India Calls National Education Policy A Game Changer
F For the first time since the National Education Policy was announced in 2020, UK higher education officials and representatives from 22 institutions travelled to India to engage with Indian counterparts.
The British Council, Universities UK International, the Department for Education, and the Department for International Trade collaborated on the trip, which included the largest group of UK higher education leaders to visit India. During the visit an MOU was also signed between an Indian and a leading British participating University to nurture Indian sporting talent.
Through the exchange of students, UK delegates say that India could be among the leading list of countries with which UK universities seek to strike student exchange projects.
…it is a real game-changer, opening up opportunities for UK universities to develop joint and dual degrees and other forms of TNE partnership with India…
The NEP presented new measures to boost internationalisation in 2020, and one goal was to learn about and implement a vision of Indian higher education that supported transnational education and increased bilateral student and faculty mobility. The NEP hopes that through their efforts British students can do short-term and long-term courses in India, and experience the Indian education system.
While the NEP hoped to get more students to come to India, a goal of the UK delegation’s visit was to drive the UK's International Education Strategy. The goal of the visit reinforces UK’s desire of increasing education exports by 75% to £35 billion a year and sustaining international student numbers at 600,000 by 2030. Speaking to press, Mrs Vivienne said, “It a real game-changer, opening up opportunities for UK universities to develop joint and dual degrees and other forms of TNE partnership with India.”
Sources from the British educational government say that India is already the second largest exporter of foreign HE students to the UK. They suggest that through the TNE project, India might soon be among the top nations with whom UK institutions aim to establish student exchange programmes. The initiative would pay 1,088 students to study or work in India in 2021-22.
A delegate that visited India ended by saying that the opportunity to see a diverse variety of comprehensive and specialised higher education institutes of which India has over 1,400 was a highlight of the trip.
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