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“Vicky was able to provide us with valuable insights that helped us to develop a strategy that was both realistic and ambitious. As a result of her work, we are now well-positioned to expand our international reach. ”

— Kate Walewska, Director of Marketing and Student Recruitment, University of Warwick (at the time: Director of Future Students Office, University of Leicester) (2023)

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UK university strategy case study | Blog Entry by Vicky Lewis

The theme of Winter Forum 2024, the magazine of the European Association for International Education (EAIE), is ‘Building Back Better?’. This issue explores the ways in which international education has shifted since the pandemic. As the Editorial puts it: ‘What does ‘building back better’ really mean for international education? The emphasis is on the word ‘better’; it invites higher education institutions to rethink internationalisation throu... View Page

A tale of two 'firsts' | Blog Entry by Vicky Lewis

Browsing Times Higher Education (THE) on 14 November 2024, I came across two articles about UK universities strengthening their international presence by establishing permanent physical bases in other countries: Imperial opens science and technology research hub in Ghana Southampton wants 5,000 students at ‘comprehensive’ India campus At first sight, these initiatives are very different. Imperial College London ‘has become the first UK university to open a permanent... View Page

An opportunity to rethink our global engagement strategies | Blog Entry by Vicky Lewis

This blog largely reproduces the concluding chapter of my report – UK Universities’ Global Engagement Strategies: Time for a rethink?. (There’s an overview of all the sections and Chapters in the report here). The current context for university global engagement is fraught with tensions: from the geopolitical level through to the institutional level. The pace of change is frenetic. In the time it took me to write up my report, new agent aggregators and partnership models cam... View Page

Enabling change by operating differently | Blog Entry by Vicky Lewis

A strong theme running through my recent interviews was the idea that we cannot simply go back to pre-pandemic ways of working. As one person said, ‘I don’t think the world (or students) will let us “go back”. The old world isn’t there any more; there’s nowhere to go back to!’. My last two blogs highlighted priorities that need to be addressed in future global engagement strategies. One focused on inclusive approaches to developing global perspectives... View Page

Time to be brave | Blog Entry by Vicky Lewis

Today’s blog outlines why now is the time for a new approach to HEI strategies for global engagement. It then explores underlying drivers and opportunities for differentiation. It draws on Chapters 5 and 6 of my new report – UK Universities’ Global Engagement Strategies: Time for a rethink?. (There’s an overview of all the sections and Chapters in the report here). As we emerge from the pandemic and deliberate over our future strategies for global engagement, it’... View Page

Global engagement in UK HEI strategic plans | Blog Entry by Vicky Lewis

This blog builds on two pieces that I posted back in November / December 2020 on The UK Strategic Plan Landscape and on International KPIs, which shared emerging findings from my research into the profile of the global dimension across UK universities’ current strategic plans. This topic developed into Chapter 3 of my new report (UK Universities’ Global Engagement Strategies: Time for a rethink?) which covers the current articulation of global engagement strategy by UK higher ... View Page

The pandemic as a catalyst for reprioritisation | Blog Entry by Vicky Lewis

In my last blog, I provided an overview of how my new report – UK Universities’ Global Engagement Strategies: Time for a rethink? – came to be; and outlined the sections and chapters included within it. Part One of the report includes a chapter (Chapter 2) entitled ‘The pandemic as a catalyst for reprioritisation’, which argues that the structural break represented by Covid-19 makes now the right time to reconsider our strategies for internationalisation and ... View Page

New Global Strategies report | Blog Entry by Vicky Lewis

It’s a while since I posted a blog. The research project that I mentioned in my November and December blogs grew into something much larger than I anticipated and I have been busy working on that. Given my long-standing fascination with the evolution of HEI international strategies, particularly within the UK context, I started out thinking it would be interesting to take the temperature of the sector in late 2020 and see which aspects of global engagement were being prioritised in ... View Page

Global Engagement and Sustainability | Blog Entry by Vicky Lewis

I very much enjoyed The PIE Live virtual summit this week. Although it was a shame not to be able to meet colleagues face-to-face, the platform gave as close to a ‘normal’ conference experience as is possible in a virtual format. I can certainly see this becoming a much more frequently adopted approach to conferences than all the flying around the world we used to do. Which brings me to my two highlights of the conference: the Sustainability Panel and the Global Engagement Index Q&am... View Page

Time to move on from the internationalisation strategy? | Blog Entry by Vicky Lewis

In my recent conversation with Elspeth Jones (Jones, E. & Lewis, V. (2020) In conversation - Evolution of UK International Education Strategy, June 2020), we discussed the evolution of UK HEI international strategies. I outlined the progression from economically motivated strategies with an almost exclusive focus on recruiting international students (in the late 1990s, early 2000s) to broader internationalisation strategies (in the late 2000s, early 2010s). The latter were more comprehens... View Page

What international education needs | Blog Entry by Vicky Lewis

There have been some significant shifts in the global discourse about higher education internationalisation recently. The Western perspective that has tended to dominate, with its assumptions that internationalisation is ‘a good thing’, is being challenged. Is it positive for everyone? And have we been guilty of taking a narrow (and lopsided) view of what it’s all about? I attended UUKi’s International Higher Education Forum (IHEF) in Nottingham on 14 Mar... View Page

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