Voices
Governments invest in their citizens through scholarship programmes for international study, but do the benefits of such investment outweigh the risks?
How important are intercultural skills and proficiency in foreign languages to compete in the modern world?
Universities worldwide are increasingly opening their doors to peer institutions in other countries. But the enthusiasm for internationalisation is also accompanied by reservations.
Ismail Badat runs us through the numbers and asks why there aren’t more women leaders in higher education in South Asia.
If China is to remain economically competitive, it needs to move away from its current strength of absorbing foreign inventions, argues the British Council’s Jeremy Chan.
The British Council’s Richard Everitt explains the latest figures and provides some options for UK universities, based on our latest report on Indian student mobility.
In the latest Open Doors report about US student mobility, the UK is again the number one destination for US students. The British Council’s Tamsin Thomas reports on this year’s findings.
The British Council’s John Bramwell describes how the booming South American economy faces complex challenges.
The Study USA programme gives scholarships to Northern Irish students to study business at US universities for a year. Páraic Rafferty writes about spending a year at Bellarmine University.
As Pakistani universities face many of the same issues as those of their UK counterparts, institutional partnerships between the UK and Pakistan will help both countries achieve their goals.