1. Gabriel IVAN Projects Manager Education & Science British Council Romania Internationalising Higher Education Working with UK, regional and in-country partners to develop collaborative initiatives that promote knowledge exchange, capacity building and quality improvement across the higher education sector globally

2. New vision on internationalisation in higher education HOLISTIC STRATEGIC QUALITATIVE RATHER THAN QUANTITATIVE INSTITUTIONAL PROFILING BASED ON SOLIDARITY AND PARTNERSHIP RATHER THAN ON COMPETITION

3. IHE project strands Global Policy Dialogue - develop new global networks promoting the skills, creativity and innovation to participate internationally Global Partnership for Knowledge Economy - support the formation of cluster partnerships across regions based on research and innovation, collaborative teaching programmes, educational management partnerships, collaborative commercial consultancy etc Internationalising Student Experience - embed intercultural understanding at the core of the higher education experience Global Market Intelligence and Innovations Resource Bank - provide policy information, key trends, developments and innovation in international HE

4. IHE will become the most important development shape the strategy of higher education institutions in five years time British Council committed to assist higher education sectors in the UK and in countries to develop their approaches to internationalisation

5. Britain has some of the best universities in the world. That is why over 400,000 foreign students, including 4,500 Japanese students, come to the UK every year to study. This is of enormous benefit to Britain as well as those students. The Japanese Government rightly wants to internationalise its universities and has set a target of 300,000 overseas students entering Japanese universities by 2020 and the same number of Japanese students studying abroad over the same period. I can announce that the British Council will hold a series of policy dialogues to enable British and Japanese university leaders to share their best practices on internationalisation, and to broker strategic partnerships between British and Japanese universities to promote exchanges of both students and of researchers. This should not only deepen collaboration between our universities, but it will boost British, and eventually Japanese, educational exports. Most importantly, it will give many more British young people the chance to come to Japan to study, cementing our relationship into the next generation. UK Foreign Secretary, William Hague, July 2010, Tokyo

6. Thanks gabriel.ivan@britishcouncil.ro