National Collaboration Frameworks: the UK-India Education and Research Initiative

As it has become increasingly important to foster strategic approaches to international higher education collaboration, UK universities have found that internationalisation is better served when initiatives are part of a wider framework agreement enabling governments to foster and support a range of collaborations. This presentation examines the UK-India Education and Research Initiative (UKIERI), a scheme designed to enhance educational links between the UK and India through a series of complementary programmes including research partnerships, trans-national education and student mobility initiatives. UKIERI has enabled 182 partnerships to be initiated across 600 institutions in the first phase of the programme, and has provided an important platform for policy dialogue between India and the UK. As UKIERI moves into its second phase, the presenters ask whether there is scope for the extension of this model to other parts of the world.