UKIERI: Collaborative Delivery Workshop

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UKIERI Collaborative Delivery Workshop
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Workshop Structure

• Background to UKIERI
• Why Collaborative Provision
• UK Partner Identification
• Application process
• Evaluation of proposals
• UKIERI Timetable
• Q A

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UKIERIs Development

• Prime Ministers of UK and India in 2005 agree to
  support collaboration in Education and Research
• UK government commits for 5 years (2006 2011)
  Corporate Champions and other UK/GOI funders join
  subsequently
• Conferences in March 06 to inform design of
  Higher Education Research strands

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UKIERI Funds for 5 years

• UK government contribute 16m
• BP, BAE Systems, GSK and Shell join as Corporate
  Champions, bringing almost 4m in cash and kind
• Indian Government support through DST on ST
  Research Awards and MHRD, through UGC, on Policy
  Events and Education Engagement

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Original Funders, Corporate Champions, other
government departments
and Government of India
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UKIERI Overview

• Higher Education Research (90 funds)
• Research Strand
• Collaborative Delivery
• PhD Scholarships
• Postdoctoral Research Fellowships
• Policy Dialogue
• Professional and Technical Skills Strand
• Schools Strand

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Research and CD Targets

• By 2011
• 50 new research cooperation projects
• 40 new programmes delivered collaboratively in
  India with 2,000 Indian students enrolled
• 300 Indian research students, postdoctoral
  researchers and staff will have worked in the UK
• 200 UK researchers worked in India and 200 UK
  undergraduate students studied in India
• 2000 Indian research students completed research
  degrees in the UK

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UKIERI HE and Research

• Round 1 2006
• 6 Major Research Awards of up to 500,000 each
• 24 Standard Research Awards of up to 150,000
  each
• 10 PhD Scholarships (to UK)
• 26 Research Fellowships (both ways)
• 7 Collaborative Programme Delivery (CPD) Awards
• 79 Travel Grants for Research Awards and 9 for
  CPD Awards

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Results of Collaborative Programme Delivery
UKIERI 1
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Why Collaborative Provision? Understanding
institutional motivation

• For the UK
• For India

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For Indian institutions

• Cost-effective and speedy approach to offering
  new courses
• Enhance QA
• Internationalise institution
• staff and their development
• students
• teaching and curricular
• Grow global networks and international outreach
  new courses, research etc
• Provide higher quality student experience
• Generate revenue
• International student exchanges

The UK is the world leader for internationally
delivered HE programmes!
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For UK institutions

• Grow global HE links
• Internationalise
• staff
• students
• teaching and curricular
• Grow research links
• Generate revenue
• Student recruitment, including through study
  abroad

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Will UK partnerships be too demanding! (or what
are the essential requirements for UK
institutions)

• Total conformity to QAA criteria!
• Staffing
• Student experience
• Institutional management
• No subsidy full costs recovery
• Meet institutional financial and contractual
  requirements, deadlines etc
• Meet Institutional Mission

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Working together

• How to identify potential UK partners
• Checking their credentials

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Identification of potential partners

• How seek out information sources
• Previous contacts
• Third parties
• British Council and EUKP emailing
• Visit UK
• Commission market research
• If in doubt .....

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Checking UK institutions credentials

• QAA reports see web, ask the instituion!
• Motivation and Mission ( ie an institutional
  commitment not just an individual
• Track record in India and other countries
• What do they deliver and where
• Views of other Indian institutions
• Visit them, invite them to spend time with you
• Overlap of interests - courses on offer, one-off
  or longer term
• Chemistry ........... who will champion

Are you both willing to invest and how much!
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• UKIERI
• The Application Process for Programmes
• Selection and Evaluation Criteria

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UKIERI CD Eligibility and Criteria

• Open to all Indian HEIs formally recognised by
  UGC or other accrediting authority
• Open to all recognised UK HEIs
• Multiple partnerships are eligible
• Bids must be joint and fully supported by both
  HEIs
• Indian institution not subsiduary/branch of UK
  institution

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UKIERI Broader Criteria

• Step change in India-UK relationship
• Long term sustainability
• Mutuality

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The courses

• Award the course must carry a UK award or a dual
  UK and Indian degree or progression towards
• An agreed curriculum is in place
• Mutuality the course has been jointly developed
  and is not a franchise or an existing syllabus
• Course content should be substantially new.
• Course must be delivered entirely or
  substantially in India.
• Teaching can be shared or delivered entirely by
  Indian partner
• All delivery models are eligible, except 100
  e-learning. Distance learning must include face
  to face element
• Delivered in India (normal minimum 70)

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Other criteria

• Conform to Indian QA requirements
• Reflect GOI widening participation agenda
  (reservations policy?)
• Evidence of market demand
• Demonstrate each partners expertise
• Management arrangements
• Staff development plans both for UK and Indian
  staff
• Student support
• Programmes that encourage student exchanges

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Financial considerations

• Financial and business plan
• Summary of likely costs and revenue
• relates to identified market analysis
• Matching funds from institutions
• UKIERI 60,000 max over 3 years
• Conditions of funding (Section 8.2)

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Evaluation Arrangements for Proposals

• Considered by joint Indian-UK expert panel
• Scorecard employed to mark relative merits
• Recommendations to Project Team
• Final agreement from UKIERI Project Board

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Evaluation Scorecard see UKIERI Website
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Timetable

• Deadline for submission of bids 17th August
• UK India Expert Panel meeting - end September
• Recommendations to Project Board - October
• Notification to successful HEIs end October
• Contracts issued - end November 2007

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Stay Informed!

• To keep up-to-date with UKIERI developments, sign
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  this via the link on the website Subscribe for
  UKIERI updates
• Check the website www.ukieri.org
• For all enquiries, email ukieri_at_in.britishcouncil
  .org