The UK needs a new international education strategy to provide a “clear vision” for the sector, according to a former universities minister.
Chris Skidmore, who launched the existing strategy in one of his two spells as universities minister in the Westminster government, which spanned 2018 to 2020, is establishing an International Education Commission to draw up policy proposals for what a replacement could look like.
The existing strategy, published in 2019, set a target for UK universities to recruit 600,000 international students by 2030 – a goal that was apparently achieved within little over a year.
