“Vicky demonstrated an ability to dig deep into data and insight to inform an achievable direction, whilst maintaining a high level of credibility with professional service and academic colleagues. ”
— David Winstanley, Executive Director Student Life, University of Southampton (at the time: Director of Global Recruitment and Admissions) (2020)
My first read-through of the new UK International Education Strategy (IES) was on Tuesday morning, while listening to radio reports about social media posts spouted by President Trump overnight and calculated to whip up friction with other countries.
So it seemed apt that the term ‘geopolitical tensions’ features in the very first line of the strategy’s Ministerial Foreword. And it reminded me just how much the world has changed since the UK’s last IES was published in... View Page
The UK’s global reputation has been damaged in the eyes of many of our friends around the world. They look at our behaviour (particularly since the 2016 referendum) and are, by turns, baffled, unsettled and pitying. Both our collective judgment and our competence as a nation have been called into question. There is a need to reinvent our relationships with the rest of the world – and universities have a significant role to play.
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