UK sector pushes for more China exchanges
The UK government is looking to develop its expertise on China and Mandarin language skills as Downing Street refreshed its defence and foreign policy.
The UK government is looking to develop its expertise on China and Mandarin language skills as Downing Street refreshed its defence and foreign policy.
The director of SOAS criticised the UK’s higher education system for ‘exploiting’ international students at the International Higher Education Forum 2023.
There are barriers which need to be addressed in both the Turing and Taith schemes to benefit from their full potential, said stakeholders during an APPG roundtable.
Two of the five countries named as priority regions in the UK's international education strategy showed declines in student numbers in 21/22.
From distributing winter clothes to sending an ambulance to Ukraine to helping new student intakes, the nature, nuance and impact of the UK-Ukraine twinning initiative is wide-ranging.
More needs to be done to allow young people from Europe to access internships in the UK, stakeholders have said, with a dedicated internship visa route mooted as one possible solution.
Some British universities paid out six-figure support to international students in 2021/22, but others are now rolling back funding despite the ongoing cost of living crisis.
Universities and education agents are confident that new testing requirements for Chinese travellers will have a minimal impact on international students as Beijing scraps restrictions on outbound travel.
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