This blog was kindly contributed by Maddalaine Ansell, Director Education, the British Council.
Effective engagement with the Indo-Pacific region is critical to the UK’s economy, security and values. It is also crucial to maintaining the high quality of the UK’s higher education sector which is an enormous soft power asset and a major contributor to the UK economy. This is why the British Council is currently holding its first regional Going Global conference, ‘Going Global Asia Pacific,’ in Singapore.
More than half of international higher education students in the UK come from the Asia Pacific region with the two giants of China and India sending 24 per cent and 13 per cent of students respectively in 2020/21. China is also the UK’s largest market for transnational education. In terms of research, China is the UK’s second most important research partner (as we are theirs) with India coming 15th.
