Making connections Taking forward PMI2

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Making connectionsTaking forward PMI2

• Suzie Gardiner
• PMI2 Project Delivery Manager
• British Council,
• Manchester

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Welcome

• Prime Ministers Initiative for Higher Education
  an overview
• PMI2 Funded Projects case study
• Policy Dialogues
• Taking Forward PMI2
• Other Higher Education funding schemes

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What is PMI2?

• Second Prime Ministers International for
  International Education
• Launched May 2006
• Aim to position the UK as a leader in
  international education and to manage the
  sustained growth of students undertaking UK
  education.
• Three strands
• - Marketing and recruitment
• - Student experience
• - Strategic Alliances and Partnerships
• Challenging tactical targets an additional
  70,000 international
• students in higher education and an additional
  30,000 in further
• education, by 2011.

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Why Strategic Alliances and Partnerships?

• To position the UK as a partner of choice
• Engaging with countries at two levels
• 1.Government policy level UK engaging
  pro-actively and collaboratively to address
  global education challenges
• 2. Sector institutional level building strong
  strategic partnerships which will jointly and
  creatively address these challenges in practice
  (PMI2 Connect)

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Scope Reach Part I Institution to Institution
partnerships

• Year One
• Research Co-operation - 86 projects funded
• UK-Pakistan Research Co-operation - 9 projects
  funded
• Collaborative Programme Delivery 14 projects
  funded
• International Mobility of UK Students 26
  projects funded
• China-UK Collaborative Partnerships in
  Entrepreneurship Employability 7 projects
  funded
• Partnership development grants 46 funded
• Approx 4,111, 513 over 189 projects

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Scope Reach Part I China-UK Partnerships
The Challenge Identifying a theme that would
be a strength - positioning and marketing of
UK qualifications (leading to meaningful
employment) an area in which UK could learn
from working in partnership with China
distinctive - innovative approaches to EE in
Vocational, HE, and life long learning
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Scope Reach Part I China-UK Partnerships

• The answer
• A shared problem - Employability and
  Entrepreneurship
• Students with an attitude towards learning which
  supports and rewards innovation, change and
  development. It is also about developing a
  spirit of entrepreneurship
• Economic benefits (meeting the needs of
  business)
• Social benefits (meeting the needs of society)

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Scope Reach Part I China-UK Partnerships

• Employability issues
• Workforce development and working with industry
  (graduate employment and upskilling)
• Curriculum design, pedagogies and teaching styles
  (improving the quality of vocational and higher
  education and making the academic route more
  relevant)
• Developing individual learners through personal
  development planning, introducing enterprise and
  creativity, and giving individuals control of
  their learning and future plans (innovation
  creativity)
• (As set out in Chinas 11th 5 year plan)

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Scope Reach Part I China-UK Partnerships

• China UK Collaborative Partnerships in
  Employability and Entrepreneurship (2007-2008)
• 7 partnerships were selected for funding in areas
  such as institutional strategies, pedagogical
  approaches and social enterprise
• Salford, Leeds Met., Northampton, Central
  Lancashire, York, Coventry, Plymouth
• Year two partnerships currently under evaluation.
  Further details to come.

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Scope Reach Part I China-UK Partnerships

• China UK Employability and Entrepreneurship
  Forum

18th Jan 2008 in Beijing Over 350 Chinese
UK participants Government, education
institutions, career centres 30
journalists
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Scope Reach Part I China-UK Partnerships

• A Galaxy of Opportunities annual publication in
  partnership with
• GTI Publishing

Career Development Workshops (1250 alumni
90 employers) Employer Workshops Career
Advisors Workshops (over 150 participants from
UK)
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Scope Reach Part II Policy Dialogues
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Scope Reach Part II Policy Dialogues

• Education and Employability, October 08, Nigeria
• The Entrepreneurial University, March 08, Sri
  Lanka
• Universities in a Globalised World, March 08,
  Japan
• Student Mobility in East Asia, Feb 08, Thailand
• Education, Employability and the Creative
  Industries, Oct 07, Indonesia
• Transnational Education, March 07, Malaysia
• International Education and Employability, Feb
  07, Vietnam
• Reports and proceedings www.britishcouncil.org/p
  mi2-connect

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Scope Reach Part II Policy Dialogues

• The Entrepreneurial University, March 08, Sri
  Lanka
• Discussions on
• Policy Drivers
• Practical approaches
• Enabling frameworks
• Post dialogue

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What is happening at the moment?

• 1. PMI2 Connect Year 2 funding calls
• UK-China Collaborative Partnerships in
  Employability and Entrepreneurship
• International Mobility of UK Students
• Research Co-operation Funding for the Gulf States
  
• 2. Supporting partnerships
• 3. Future funding calls
• More Collaborative Delivery
• More Outward Student Mobility
• More China-UK Partnerships in Employability and
  Entrepreneurship
• More Policy Dialogues and scoping work

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What is the future for PMI?

• PMI2 is undergoing evaluation -DIUS and related
  stakeholders
• PMI3 possibilities will be discussed on the
  back of this evaluation
• British Council will have schemes in place to
  pick up on partnership activities

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Any other funding programmes?

• Education Partnerships in Africa
• www.britishcouncil.org/learning-epa
• epa_at_britishcouncil.org
• DelPHE
• www.britishcouncil.org/delphe
• DelPHE_at_britishcouncil.org
• INSPIRE
• www.britishcouncil.org/inspire
• inspire_at_britishcouncil.org
• UKIERI
• - www.ukieri.org

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Establishing Connections

• Thank you
• Pmi2.connect_at_britishcouncil.org
• suzanne.gardiner_at_britishcouncil.org
• john.law_at_britishcouncil.org