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 GOV.UKDepartments Worldwide How government works Get involvedPublications Consultations Statistics News and communicationsSpeechEducation Secretary sets out planfor international educationDamian Hinds addressed the higher education sector atan event to promote the ambitions of the InternationalEducation Strategy.From:Published 1 May 2019Department for Education, Department for International Trade, and The RtHon Damian Hinds MPDelivered on: 30 April 2019 (Transcript of the speech, exactly as it wasdelivered)Good evening everyone. I am delighted to welcome you all here todiscuss the huge opportunities of International Education.Around the world our schools, our universities, our teaching, are allbywords for excellence. We have the best stable of brands in thebusiness, complemented by the gift of the greatest IP asset in history:GOV.UK uses cookies to make the site simpler. Find out more about cookies or hide this messageHome Education, training and skills Further and higher education, skills and vocational trainingSearchthe English language.Few can claim to compete with the extent and longevity of our greateducational institutions or the depth and breadth of our cultural heritage.Every year, as we celebrate Saint George’s day we also celebrate thebirth of Shakespeare.I’m always in the market for ideas from other countries; there is nopractical limit to what we can learn from each other and so others look tolearn from us too. Education ministers from around the world want toknow about our success with phonics, with school autonomy, and theturnaround story of our state schools especially in this city, London.If you look at governments around the world, a good number of thoseholding public office have had a British education – like Pakistan’s primeminister Imran Khan who studied at Oxford; while Yemi Osinbajo, thevice president of Nigeria studied at LSE and the incoming emperor ofJapan, Prince Naruhito, who also studied at Oxford.It is a truly extraordinary statistic: the British Council estimates that one infour countries have leaders who have been educated here at somepoint.But the thing about excellence is that you have to keep working at it, andas you raise your game, remember others are raising theirs.In higher education, according to the QS World University Rankings, wehave 4 in the top ten; 18 in the Top 100, and a position 2nd only to theUS.It is vital that we are welcoming of International HE students to the UK.The government’s 2018 immigration white paper sets out a number ofpositive changes to the visa offer for international students.But sometimes we talk as though visas are the only issue to work on. InQS’ International Student Survey, 2018, student visas came 7th as afactor in terms of international students’ decision making. An institution’sreputation, how welcoming it is to students, and employment prospects,all scored more highly.In higher education we are still gaining volume, but we are losing share,as we have grown around 5% from 435,000 students in 2013/14 to458,000 in 2017/18. We do have quite a reliance on one source market– albeit a very big one: China. We should look to develop both existingmarkets but to diversify and develop new and sustainable opportunitiestoo, for example continuing to grow the Indian market, and countriesfrom South East Asia and Africa too.The International Education Strategy looks to increase the number ofinternational higher education students to 600,000 by 2030.International students make a vital contribution to the UK economy. In2016 they brought in almost £12bn through tuition fees and livingexpenditure alone.But international students mean far more to us than the financial benefitsthey bring.They bring greater cultural diversity to university and college campuses,and enrich the experience for all students who study there, as well as thewider communities. They stimulate demand for courses and add to theUK’s impressive research capacity.In the longer term, they offer cultural, political and commercial links, anenduring part of Global BritainGrowing the UK’s in-country transnational education, at both school andHE levels, is an area ultimately with even greater potential. It enables UKeducation institutions to reach a much broader and more diverse cohortof international students than ever before.I know there are barriers to overcome to make transnational educationsustainable, and worthwhile.There are specific actions in the strategy designed to support this.For example by engaging in dialogue with countries with recognisedexport potential and working to resolve regulatory barriers throughinternational agreements and the work of the Education Champion weare planning to appoint.The latest available data, for 2016, show that international schoolscontributed £900m in export revenue to the UK. Early years provisionhas become established in China for example, and a number of Britishschools are now operating successfully overseas, like Dulwich whichhas seven international schools in the Far East.Now, to be truly international and outward-looking we have to addresssome things much closer to home. We have never been world famousfor our language skills, but this took a dive in 2004 when the decline ofmodern languages in schools began.Global Britain needs more – a lot more – children learning a language, atleast one language, and that means we need a lot more languageteachers, too.Our Mandarin Excellence Programme is on track to ensure 5,000students in state-funded schools are working towards fluency inMandarin Chinese, alongside 100 newly qualified Chinese teachers, tobe trained by the end of the programme in March 2020.And the Spanish Visiting Teachers Programme, run in partnership withSpain’s Ministry of Education and Vocational Training looks to supportstate-funded schools in England to recruit MFL teachers by providingaccess to a pool of qualified teachers from Spain. But we need to domore.In January I announced a new £2.5million programme to enablethousands more young people to take part in international exchangesand visits.Schools in England can now apply for grants to take pupils aged 11 andabove to visit partner schools around the world, giving them the chanceto experience different cultures, improve language skills and buildindependence, character and resilience. And the programme focusesparticularly on children from disadvantaged backgrounds.We need to talk about Education Technology too. This is a flourishingbusiness sector for the UK, with a steadily growing export market. Wealready have the largest EdTech market in Europe and some of thefastest growing EdTech companies in the world but have more to do tomaximise our position.We know that domestic market development and export success areclosely linked, so we will support UK EdTech businesses in both.Specifically, this means:defining 10 new “EdTech challenges” to galvanise industry action onsome real-world issues faced by the education sector wheretechnology has strong potential to drive progress;helping to forge new connections between technology innovators andtheir users, through the creation of testbed schools and colleges; andsupporting more effective procurement practice for both suppliersand users. For example, through support for BESA’s LendEDplatforms – a try-before-you-buy service linking EdTech companiesand educators.Distance and remote learning have much potential. Just last week,indeed on the same day we were celebrating both Shakespeare and St.George, the Open University, a world leader in distance learning, markedits 50th anniversary. Their approach exemplifies this potential fortechnology to support learning beyond traditional classroomenvironments, widening access to higher education for thousands, andwe want the UK to harness opportunities provided by technology in thecoming years.It has been said before, but UK education is punching above its weight,but below its potential. The strategy is here to support you, the educationsector. I want to finish by thanking you for all your hard work that’s put theUK in such a strong position across the educational export sector. Weare here to work together to help drive our success in the future.It has never been more important for us to be globally-minded, outwardlooking and ambitious. The competition has never been fiercer. But theopportunities have never been greater. 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Speech: Damian Hinds: Education Secretary sets out plan for international education: 30 April 2019

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