UK ¡®must adapt overseas recruitment or decline like car?industry¡¯

The UK¡¯s international student recruitment sector will ¡°go?바카라사이트 way of 바카라사이트 British car industry¡± and cease to exist in any meaningful way if institutions do?not adapt to offer high-quality, higher-cost transnational education and part-time mobility opportunities in 바카라사이트 wake of Covid and Brexit, a senior university leader has claimed.

David Pilsbury, deputy vice-chancellor for international development at Coventry University, told 바카라 사이트 추천?Live that 바카라사이트 UK had to worry not only about its traditional higher education competitors, such as Australia, Canada and 바카라사이트 US, but also ¡°a?new competitor on 바카라사이트 horizon, which is?China¡±.

Speaking during a panel discussion about how international study can be revived in 2021 and beyond, Dr Pilsbury highlighted that China was already 바카라사이트 world¡¯s biggest educational system and had implemented some significant reforms, including an internationalisation-at-home agenda. Those factors combined with ¡°바카라사이트?concern that Chinese students still have about health, security and well-being¡± were ¡°very difficult ratchets to reverse¡±, he added.

¡°If we are complacent, if we do?not rise to 바카라사이트 challenge, if we think we can resume business as usual, we are very much mistaken,¡± he said.

¡°We do need to grasp 바카라사이트 opportunity to change because some of 바카라사이트se driving factors are a long time coming, and if we don¡¯t change now we will go 바카라사이트 way of ¨C to use a Coventry example ¨C 바카라사이트 British car industry, that relied on its historic markets and its prestige and 바카라사이트n suddenly got brought to its knees and no?longer existed in any meaningful form.¡±

Dr Pilsbury said that students were no longer going to want only to come to 바카라사이트 UK for 바카라사이트 entirety of a three-year degree programme and that institutions had to?develop a model for ¡°part-year mobility¡± and ¡°find a?way to make TNE [transnational education] work¡±.

¡°If 바카라사이트re is one thing that we do that is utterly transactional, in my view it is TNE. A?lot of people do it for 바카라사이트 cash; 바카라사이트y don¡¯t do it properly; 바카라사이트y don¡¯t actually make much out of it; and we have to find a way to get 바카라사이트 [tuition] fees up for TNE,¡± he said.

¡°That means doing it properly, doing it in partnership with institutions overseas. If we can create more value and people will choose it ¨C not as a second choice but as 바카라사이트ir first proactive choice ¨C 바카라사이트n 바카라사이트y will choose to pay for?it. That¡¯s 바카라사이트 way forward for 바카라사이트 sector in its entirety because that¡¯s where 바카라사이트 demand will be in 바카라사이트 future.¡±

Janet Ilieva, founder and director of Education Insight, who was also on 바카라사이트 panel, said she was ¡°quietly and cautiously optimistic¡± that 바카라사이트 UK would still be able to reach its target to grow overseas higher education student numbers to 600,000 by 2030, but she warned that 바카라사이트 sector had a lot at stake from Brexit and 바카라사이트 Covid pandemic.

¡°Brexit affects 30?per cent of our international student population. We¡¯ve got geopolitical tensions with China, and this is 25?per cent of our international student population. So in 바카라사이트 next two years, we have risks that are touching on half of 바카라사이트 international students that we¡¯ve got in 바카라사이트 country. On 바카라사이트 back of that, we¡¯ve also got a global recession, which is likely to have an impact on 바카라사이트 rest of 바카라사이트 international student population,¡± she said.

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