July 2021
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When it happened…
Tuesday, 13 July 2021
What delegates came to discuss…
This conference examined priorities, opportunities, and challenges for international student exchange, as well as the rollout of the Turing scheme, which has been announced by the Government as the replacement for the Erasmus+ Programme.
The conference also followed:
- the International Education Strategy 2021, the update aimed at ensuring that it continues to meet the UK’s needs in the changing landscape for international HE in the light of changes brought about by Brexit and COVID-19
- the announcement of the International Learning Exchange Programme, the parallel scheme to the Turing scheme from the Welsh Government
We were pleased to be able to include keynote sessions at this conference with: Lord Bilimoria, President, UK Council for International Student Affairs; Chancellor, University of Birmingham and President, CBI; Celia Partridge, Assistant Director, Partnerships and Mobility, Universities UK International; Steve Woodfield, Head, Whitehall and Stakeholder Engagement and Lead, Turing Scheme International Engagement, British Council; and Professor Colin Riordan, President and Vice-Chancellor, Cardiff University, on developing Wales’s International Learning Exchange programme.
Areas for discussion included:
- implementation - key priorities, expectations, and challenges for the Turing scheme
- opportunities - and assessing the prospects for widening access to international exchange
- international partnerships - and the impact of the scheme on the UK’s position within global
Who attended…
Officials from BEIS; the Department for Education; the Department for International Trade; the Department for the Economy, NI; DWP; the Home Office; The Scottish Government and the Welsh Government.
Representatives from Al-Maktoum College, Dundee; Aston University; Bournemouth University; Cardiff and Vale College; Cardiff University; Coventry City Council; Dalhousie University; Erasmus Student Network UK; Goldsmiths; High Commission of Canada in the United Kingdom; King's College London; Kingston University; Lancaster University; Liverpool Hope University; Liverpool John Moores University; Manchester Metropolitan University; Newcastle University Business School; Norfolk County Council Children's Services; Northumbria University; Norwich University of the Arts; Nottingham Trent University; Plymouth College of Art; Plymouth Marjon University; Rose Bruford College, Sidcup; Sheffield Hallam University; Student Loans Company; Staffordshire University; Swansea University; The University of Manchester; UCL; Universities Wales; University of Aberdeen; University of Bath; University of Bradford; University of Copenhagen; University of Derby; University of East Anglia; University of East London; University of Exeter; University of Hull; University of Kent; University of Plymouth; University of St Andrews; University of Surrey; University of the Arts London; University of the West of England and University of York.
Press: The PIE News and University Business.
