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The positioning of TNE within UK university strategies | Blog Entry by Vicky Lewis

There's a strong emphasis on transnational education (TNE) in the UK government International Education Strategy. The term transnational education appears 16 times, and the abbreviation TNE 22 times. So I thought I’d check where and how TNE features in recently published strategic plans of UK universities. This is by no means a systematic study. I’ve simply picked on three, quite different institutions, whose recent publication of new strategic plans came to my atten... View Page

How others see us | Blog Entry by Vicky Lewis

It’s always interesting to gain insights into how others see us. So I’ve picked out some commentary on the UK’s new International Education Strategy (IES) from outside our UK HE bubble. Mervin Bakker, Executive Director at EAIE, used a LinkedIn post to highlight a lesson he felt other countries might learn from the UK. He praised the ‘integrated approach between different parts of the government and other stakeholders’ which has led to ‘a holistic strategy ... View Page

New UK International Education Strategy | Blog Entry by Vicky Lewis

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

UK universities’ international KPIs – PART 4 | Blog Entry by Vicky Lewis

This is the fourth in my series of blogs sharing insights and emerging ideas on ways to measure international success, based on a review of university international strategies. Links to earlier blogs in the series are provided at the end of this one. In the second blog of this series, I noted (with plenty of caveats) that, across recent UK international strategies, the number of individual KPIs relating to ‘transnational students, programmes and partnerships’ has overtaken the nu... View Page

UK TNE in Focus | Blog Entry by Vicky Lewis

Confession time: it’s been over four months since my last blog. This happens every now and then when ‘work-work’ (consultancy) takes over. I hate it when I lose momentum like this as, the longer I go without writing one, the harder it is to re-start. So, I’m easing myself back in by repurposing a conference presentation on transnational education (TNE) from earlier this month. TNE certainly seems to be a hot topic. The majority of my recent consultancy work with uni... View Page

International Voices | Blog Entry by Vicky Lewis

I had great fun recently chatting to Professor Judith Lamie and Professor Chris Hill as a guest on the International Voices series of their Think Education podcast. If you haven’t come across it yet, do check it out – it’s a great resource and includes conversations with many more illustrious names than mine! We had a wide-ranging discussion, including: how university international strategies have changed (and are continuing to do so post-pandemic) the things that ha... View Page

Rethinking partnership models | Blog Entry by Vicky Lewis

When undertaking interviews for my Global Strategies research project, I asked what would be prominent (and different) in the next generation of UK global engagement strategies. Almost all interviewees highlighted the changing nature of partnerships and the need for models to be rethought, based on deep consideration of how international partnerships can help institutions to achieve their – and their partners’ – overarching strategic goals. Today’s blog provides an ... View Page

Governing body engagement with TNE strategy | Blog Entry by Vicky Lewis

This blog is the final one in a series, outlining the findings of a small survey conducted in June 2018. It expands on some of the top level findings presented at the TNE-Hub Symposium on ‘Transnational Education: Innovations in Practice’ on 11 July 2018. Presentations (in my case a joint one with Dr Janet Ilieva, entitled: Evolving TNE approaches: from short-termism to sustainability?’) are downloadable from here. The survey investigated: how TNE drivers and approa... View Page

Preferred TNE delivery modes | Blog Entry by Vicky Lewis

This blog is the second in a series, outlining the findings of a small survey conducted in June 2018. It expands on some of the top level findings presented at the TNE-Hub Symposium on ‘Transnational Education: Innovations in Practice’ on 11 July 2018. Presentations (in my case a joint one with Dr Janet Ilieva, entitled: Evolving TNE approaches: from short-termism to sustainability?’) are downloadable from here. The survey investigated: how TNE drivers and appro... View Page

Changing institutional TNE strategies and their drivers | Blog Entry by Vicky Lewis

As I’ve mentioned here, here and elsewhere, there seems to be increasing UK HEI sector talk about developing long-term, deep, multi-faceted institutional partnerships and collaborative delivery models with international partners. In the area of transnational education (TNE), partnership approaches with host country partners are becoming more equitable, less ‘one-way-traffic’ (see pdf of this UUKi / British Council report from 2016). And fears about the implications... View Page

Transnational education toolkit | Blog Entry by Vicky Lewis

The UK’s Higher Education Academy recently (June 2017) published a useful transnational education (TNE) toolkit, prepared by Dr Karen Smith (University of Hertfordshire). It provides a wealth of valuable advice for anyone involved in delivering TNE. While written specifically for the UK context, many of the lessons it shares are transferable. It covers topics such as: the quality assurance and enhancement of TNE the logistics of TNE teaching teaching, learning and assessmen... View Page

Developing Transnational Education Partnerships | Blog Entry by Vicky Lewis

International partnerships have steadily increased in importance for UK HEIs over recent years. Research undertaken a few years ago by Vincenzo Raimo and Charlotte Harrison (published in The Guardian) indicates that ‘development / expansion of international partnerships’ was the most cited priority within UK universities’ international strategies, with 92% of universities considering it a priority. Of course, international partnerships have a range of drivers and come in var... View Page

International Education Hubs (Part 3) | Blog Entry by Vicky Lewis

This is the last in a series of three blog posts looking at the phenomenon of international education hubs – and the implications for UK higher education. The series is based on a session I delivered at the UK-NARIC 2016 Conference in London on 21 November 2016. In my previous blog post, I looked at national motivations for (and approaches to) developing international education hubs. In this one, I focus on the opportunities for UK higher education institutions to engage with partners i... View Page

International Education Hubs (Part 2) | Blog Entry by Vicky Lewis

This is the second in a series of three blog posts looking at the phenomenon of international education hubs – and the implications for UK higher education. The series is based on a session I delivered at the UK-NARIC 2016 Conference in London on 21 November 2016. In my first blog post, I looked at the broad context for the development of international education hubs, what they are and where they can be found. This post focuses on national motivations and approaches (with a couple of ca... View Page

International Education Hubs (Part 1) | Blog Entry by Vicky Lewis

This is the first in a series of three blog posts looking at the phenomenon of international education hubs – and the implications for UK higher education. The series is based on a workshop I delivered at the UK-NARIC 2016 Conference in London on 21 November 2016. In this first post, I look at the broad context for the development of international education hubs, what they are and where they can be found. 2016 is proving to be a turning point year for the UK on many different levels. Do... View Page

Picking a partner for the long term | Blog Entry by Vicky Lewis

After an embarrassingly long gap between blog posts, this one is really just an excuse to get down in writing a few things that have been buzzing round in my head recently. According to an HEGlobal survey, ‘almost all the UK's HE providers plan to grow their TNE [transnational education] delivery in the coming years’. TNE provision based on two-way, collaborative partnerships, built on more equitable relationships, is on the rise (see, for example, this blog post on HEGloba... View Page

New article on embedding marketing in international campus development | Blog Entry by Vicky Lewis

The research project I undertook in late 2014 / early 2015 has resulted in a number of blog posts, comment pieces and a poster for the Going Global conference. For those interested in a slightly more in-depth account of the recommendations generated by interviewing senior staff involved in the marketing of UK university campuses in Malaysia, here's a peer-reviewed journal article on the topic of embedding marketing in international campus development. It was published online in the Tay... View Page

New guest comment piece on HEGlobal website | Blog Entry by Vicky Lewis

Based on the poster I presented at the British Council's Going Global conference in June 2015, I was asked to write a guest comment piece for the UK HE International Unit's HEGlobal website, which stimulates discussion on all aspects of transnational education. I focused on the need for inter-campus collaboration and the sharing of different perspectives and approaches when it comes to the marketing of an international campus. Here's a link to the post. ... View Page

International campus marketing | Blog Entry by Vicky Lewis

If you are interested in investigating some of the issues around international campus development, here is a two-page PDF Information Sheet listing (and with hyperlinks to) useful publications, websites and other resources. The main focus is on the marketing and positioning of international campuses. However the list also includes sources of facts and figures relating to transnational education more generally - and a couple of useful guides (both emanating from the Leadership Foundation for H... View Page

Embedding marketing in international campus development | Blog Entry by Vicky Lewis

I undertook some research in late 2014 / early 2015 (see previous blog post) into the role of marketing in international campus development. The aim of this was to generate some useful (evidence-based) recommendations for HE institutions considering development of an international campus. I’ll be sharing detailed findings elsewhere. In the meantime, here are the key recommendations, broken down by themes (roughly corresponding to consecutive phases in the international campus developmen... View Page

Collaborating across organisational cultures to market your international campus | Blog Entry by Vicky Lewis

Last year I took some informal soundings with staff at UK HEIs. They confirmed a lack of guidance on embedding marketing into international campus development to ensure effective positioning and sustainable student recruitment. Investigating further, I could find no publicly available research or detailed recommendations covering this specific challenge. So I decided to undertake my own research into the role of marketing in international campus development – with the aim of generating ... View Page

'A mission to learn from the world' | Blog Entry by Vicky Lewis

Last year I participated in the seven-week Globalizing Higher Education and Research for the 'Knowledge Economy' MOOC, run jointly by University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Bristol. It covered a lot of really interesting ground and one element that sticks in my mind is a podcast by Gabriel Hawawini (INSEAD). In this, Hawawini explores rationales for setting up an international campus. He articulates the key to the whole process (of determining whether to establish an intern... View Page

Branch Campus Development - Marketing Expertise Required | Blog Entry by Vicky Lewis

Following on from the webinar I gave in June on The Proper Role of Marketing in Overseas Campus Development (see Resources page of this site), here's a PDF copy of an article of mine (entitled: Branch Campus Development - Marketing expertise required) which has just been published in the Summer 2014 edition of the European Association for International Education's (EAIE) Forum magazine. International branch campuses can succeed or fail depending on whether they enrol enough studen... View Page

EduCity, Malaysia – some challenges to (cost-effective) collaboration | Blog Entry by Vicky Lewis

This post is an adaptation of a submission I made to the Globalizing Higher Education and Research for the 'Knowledge Economy' MOOC that I participated in earlier this year. It draws on my experience of the International Branch Campus of a UK university in EduCity in southern Malaysia (just across the Straits from Singapore). It seeks to highlight some of the challenges which hamper what appears to be a great idea for a more cost-effective and collaborative approach to branch campus d... View Page

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