“The British Council is dedicated to supporting extra sustainable and scalable TNE partnerships between Türkiye and the UK, and to ship into the broader area,” mentioned Martin Hope, the organisation’s world head of schooling and science.
“We’ve been working with native companions to determine alternatives to develop UK-Türkiye TNE partnerships in analysis and with grants for exploratory partnerships,” he instructed delegates on the EURIE convention in Istanbul.
Bringing collectively worldwide schooling leaders from world wide, the three-day convention, now in its tenth yr, noticed delegates discussing key matters – focussing significantly on the rise of the Eurasian market.
Naming Türkiye as one among seven “world precedence nations” for these partnerships, Hope mentioned there was “important progress potential to assist the additional improvement of [the country] as a transnational schooling hub for the area”.
He instructed delegates that whereas TNE partnerships provide “an incredible alternative to widen entry and improve high quality”, there was extra to be carried out to develop TNE fashions that “assist fairness”, are sustainable and add financial, social and reputational worth to each the host nation and worldwide companions.
We’ve been working with native companions to determine alternatives to develop UK-Türkiye transnational schooling partnerships in analysis and with grants for exploratory partnerships
Martin Hope, British Council
Hope’s feedback construct on baseline analysis, printed in 2021, which outlined methods during which the UK and Türkiye might work collectively to strengthen ties between their respective larger schooling establishments – particularly with reference to analysis and different collaborations.
He instructed delegates that taking a look at TNE partnerships was “important” for any nation wishing to develop its larger schooling sector – particularly as worldwide college students more and more look past alternatives within the conventional “Huge 4” research locations and in the direction of rising markets resembling Türkiye, China, South Asia and the Gulf.
The UK was house to some 6,555 Turkish college students within the 2023/24 tutorial yr, in accordance with the most up-to-date HESA knowledge.
