From school partnerships to university partnerships, with impact assessment en route.
Angela's paper will briefly cover the historical perspective of partnerships, starting with Willy Brandt’s 1970s North-South commission, which reached some fundamental conclusions. International development is too important to be left to politicians; civil society must get engaged. Education has been at the forefront of institutional partnerships. In 2004 the English international strategy ‘Putting the world into world class education’ consolidated earlier ideas, and proposed that every school and college should have a sustainable partnership by 2010, so that our young people are equipped to live and work in a global economy. A recent Ipsos Mori poll, carried out on behalf of the DEA , indicates that four years later the aim to provide global learning for all students has only partially been achieved. The drive to develop partnerships has accelerated. Health partnerships, community partnerships and faith partnerships are actively encouraged. Many look to education to see if their partnership models are effective. If education is to be the vanguard, what robust evidence is there to indicate the impact of the models?

Another day, another country: world-wide horizons at Leeds Metropolitan University
Definitions of 'internationalisation' are many and varied. Some institutions consider it to be about their standing in international league tables, the recruitment of the best staff and the best students from around the world. Within that group, too many institutions still see international students primarily as a source of income rather than bringing value to their work. Yet increased competition in trans-national education means a different approach which values the contribution international students make to the institution.  Alongside this, too few universities consider that internationalisation is about the home students, about broadening the perspectives of the whole student and staff body and creating opportunities for a powerful learning community which can deepen the HE experience as a whole for every member of that community.