British Council works towards strengthening collaboration between Higher Education institutions in UK and India for enhanced research and innovation to meet global challenges and provide young people with access to high quality international education. Through our programmes, we support institutional partnerships that develop skills and knowledge, seeking solutions to critical global challenges through high quality research, teaching and learning.

Over the years we have delivered programmes such as UK India Education Research Initiative, Newton Bhabha Fund, Going Global Partnerships and Going Global Conference. We led the India-UK taskforce on Mutual Recognition of Qualifications, coordinated UK government's response to the Indian Higher Education policy and supported the implementation of the National Education Policy through our initiatives. In the last two years, we have given about 2 million GBP of grant towards seed funding of teaching-learning partnerships for setting up of TNE arrangements in response to the new foreign collaboration regulations of the Government of India.

We recently hosted the India-UK higher education conference: Strengthening India-UK partnerships in education, research and innovation in New Delhi from 18- 19 September 2023.

This conference was organised around the arrival of the Department of Business and Trade led UK higher education mission to India from 18 – 22 September 2023. 

All presentation are available under Reports section.

Objectives of the conference

  • To create a common understanding of the policy landscape and regulatory environment for collaboration between UK and India.
  • To share an understanding of the emerging opportunities for UK-India collaboration in education, research, and innovation.
  • To explore potential collaboration opportunities in critical cross-cutting areas such as gender and climate action in higher education and research.
  • Capacity building for internationalisation of higher education with the state governments through debates and discussion.
  • Dissemination of research undertaken by the British Council and partner organisations in various focus areas.

 

Programme schedule

Kindly refer to the download section to view/ download the detailed programme agenda.  

Please note- the programme is currently subject to change. 

Understanding the sectors

We had organised thematic webinars for the delegates and UK HEIs ahead of the conference to help them understand the landscape of the below mentioned sectors in India. It helped them in identifying where the opportunities are and what challenges can they expect.

Please find below the webinar themes and links to view: 

Reports

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