ways of assessing and dealing with new market opportunities - dan shah

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

daniel.shah@international.ac.uk

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