Higher education and research are among the most internationally collaborative fields of human activity.
Yet, as we warned last year in The China Question: Managing Risks and Maximising Benefits from Partnership in Higher Education and Research, past patterns of internationalisation will, in key respects, provide a poor guide to what’s to come.
With the US and China locked in an intensifying contest for technological leadership that will potentially draw in many other countries, the chances that the global scientific endeavour will be disrupted by geopolitics, with knock-on effects on student and academic mobility, have risen sharply over the last eighteen months.
