For an individual higher education institution, engagement and input from a wide variety of stakeholders helps to ensure its success in providing a high-quality education to its students.
Institutions also benefit from collaboration beyond the four walls – a range of other stakeholders such as employers, professional, statutory and regulatory bodies (PSRBs) and community partners influence and shape course design, contribute to research activity and support institutions in fulfilling their wider missions.
Of course, higher education reaches beyond national borders and the global reach of our institutions is something that is integral to the success of higher education in the United Kingdom.
Global partnerships are not a new concept for higher education, having been a central feature of the sector for as long as one can remember. They take many forms – staff and student mobility, international campuses and joint provision are just some of the examples of how higher education institutions collaborate internationally.
In the UK, the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education’s (QAA) COVID-19 guidance drew upon the expertise of higher education professionals internationally and shared this back with the UK sector.
One of the fastest growing areas of international partnership is transnational education (TNE), which offers students the opportunity to obtain a qualification from an institution based in a country other than the one in which they reside.
The QE-TNE (Quality Evaluation of Transnational Education) method was launched earlier this year, which will see 78 UK providers of TNE (over 70% of the UK TNE student population) participating in a five-year programme of review activity focused on sharing best practice in the quality enhancement of transnational education. Global partnership is central to the development and delivery of QE-TNE and engagement with international higher education institutions and quality agencies will help to strengthen the quality of individual TNE provision, as well as contributing to the enhancement of the UK TNE sector as a whole.
We believe this will continue to cement the UK’s place as a key destination for study and ensure that students working towards a UK qualification avail themselves of the high-quality experience that they expect and deserve.
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