Internationalisation Conference
Keynote
Dr Chris Yeomans, Head of Policy,
UK Higher Education International Unit
The EU, Bologna and
internationalisation – new
opportunities and challenges from
Europe
Dr Chris Yeomans
UK HE International Unit
The strategic turn
• 94% of institutions now have an
internationalisation strategy
• 75% with a European strategy have it
embedded in the international strategy
• Joint Outward Mobility Steering Group
• International Education Advisory Forum
Context: EU 2020 strategy
• The ‘Europe 2020’ strategy follows on from the Lisbon
Strategy (2000-2010) that set out to create “'the most
competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy' in
the world
• 3% of the EU's GDP should be invested in R&D by 2020
• The share of early school leavers should be under 10%
and at least 40% of the population aged 30-34 should
have completed tertiary or equivalent education
The next generation of EU
HE and Research
programmes
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New budgetary cycle: 2014-2020
Rationalising, simplifying, connecting
Focus on added value of European level
Europe in international context
Erasmus for All: More
money, less paperwork
• New European Commission programme
proposal to run from 2014-2020
• Unites the seven existing programmes for
education, youth, training and sport
• Proposed budget of €19 billion: an increase
of 70%
Erasmus for All:
Proposed changes
• Streamlined architecture supports three key
actions:
- Learning mobility
- Cooperation for innovation and good practices
- Support for policy reform
• 2/3 funding on mobility grants
• 5 million people to benefit between 2014-20
Erasmus for All:
Opportunities
• Erasmus activities: substantially
strengthened and expanded internationally
• Staff mobility: significantly strengthened
• International collaboration: consolidation
• Collaborative degrees
• Erasmus Master
Collaborative degrees on the rise
2007 IU survey:
• do you have the power to award?
2011:
• 47/80 institutions award a joint degree or
multiple/dual double degree
• 48 collab. programmes with UK partner; 78
with European partner; 48 with HEI outside
Europe
Collaborative degrees on the rise
• Most regularly cited problems/obstacles:
administrative burden; curriculum compatibility;
credit equivalency; conflicting quality assurance
expectations; legal issues
• Of those who do not offer a collaborative degree:
26% are in the process of establishing
• Erasmus for All will strengthen support for
collaborative programmes – EU and non-EU
Erasmus Master Student
Loan Guarantee Facility
• Too little full degree mobility – partly due to
limited nature of national support schemes.
• Support cannot be provided by another state
• Erasmus Master will offer chance for Masters
kevel students to access loans at favourable
rates
• Tell us more......provided it does not impinge on
Member State autonomy
Innovative cooperation
• Strategic Partnerships
– Cross sector alliances between educational
establishments and youth organisations
– 23,000 partnerships
• Knowledge Alliances
– Large scale partnerships between HEIs and
businesses
– 400 alliances
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IT support platforms
Virtual mobility
E-Twinning
Jean Monnet
Knowledge Alliances
HE capacity-building projects
Transnational traineeships
Concerns
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Vague – need more details
Too good to be true?
EU tools for valorisation: U-Multirank
Also keen to ensure that the international
element of Erasmus for All includes all
regions
Value of EU research policy to UK
universities
Research Income at UK higher education institutions, 2008/09
European Commission / EU
Government bodies
5%
UK industry, commerce & public
corporations
5%
UK central government/local
authorities, health & hospital
authorities
12%
Other overseas
4%
EU other
1%
Other sources
1%
BBSRC, 4%
MRC, 4%
NERC, 2%
UK-based charities
15%
Research Councils
25%
EPSRC, 9%
ESRC, 2%
AHRC, 1%
STFC, 2%
Other, 1%
UK HE Funding councils
31%
Total (2008/09): £5,978 million
Source: Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) (2010): Finance Plus 2008/09
Horizon 2020: renewing the EU
research landscape
• 15% of the EU budget allocated for the current
Framework Programme has gone to UK
researchers.
• Total contribution of FP7 to UK research
expected to reach €7 billion.
• Annually, FP7 contributes 5% of the UK’s
national science budget, which is equivalent to
the spending power of a medium-sized UK
research council.
Horizon 2020: renewing the EU
research landscape
• ‘Horizon 2020’ is the proposed new EU programme for
research and innovation.
• 2014 – 2020, total budget of €80 billion – a substantial
increase on the budget for FP7
• H2020 brings together all existing EU programmes for
research and innovation under single umbrella: FP7,
Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme
(CIP) and the European Institute of Innovation and
Technology (EIT).
• Innovation focus
Horizon 2020: Three key
strands
• Excellent Science (€24.6 billion)
• 77% increase for ERC;
• Special attention to Future and Emerging Technologies (FETs);
• International co-operation encouraged
• Societal Concerns (€31. 7 billion) :
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Health, demographic change and wellbeing;
Food security, sustainable agriculture and bio-economy;
Secure, clean and efficient energy;
Smart, green and integrated transport;
Climate action, resource efficiency and raw materials;
Inclusive, innovative and secure societies.
• Industrial Leadership (€17.9 billion).
Horizon 2020: Broadly aligned
with UK HE sector interests
• Substantial budget increase for European Research
Council
• Continuation of excellence as underlying principle for
allocation of EU research funding
• Single set of administrative rules for all components of
Horizon 2020.
• Extension of administrative model of the European
Research Council across Horizon 2020, allowing a 100%
reimbursement rate (direct eligible costs).
• Move towards a more trust based control strategy eg.
acceptance of the accounting practices of all participants
Remaining issues for the UK HE
sector
• Increased role for the European Structural Funds in
capacity building and widening participation across
Europe.
• Cost declaration through full costing will not be possible.
• Specific Grand Challenges identified by the Commission
under the ‘Societal Concern’ strand of Horizon 2020
• Balance of funding between innovation and research
Key Bologna Process
Reforms
• Bachelor – Master – Doctoral cycles
(UK already uses this structure)
• Overarching Framework for Qualifications of the EHEA
(UK HE qualifications frameworks self-certified)
• European Standards and Guidelines for Quality
Assurance in the EHEA
(Quality Assurance Agency – QAA)
• European Credit Transfer System (ECTS)
(Experience of using credit – NUCCATS, SCQF)
• Diploma Supplement
(New challenge – development of HEAR)
Bologna Process 2009-2012:
Leuven Communiqué
 Student mobility: in 2020, 20% of students graduating in the
European Higher Education Area should have had a study or training
period abroad
 Lifelong Learning: Ministers formally acknowledged learning
outcomes as the basis for recognition of formal and informal learning.
 ‘Multidimensional transparency tools’: BFUG to monitor
development of classifications/typologies and rankings of HEIs
 Expanding Bologna’s remit: to include additional policy areas
 International dimension enhanced in 2009
But what is interesting....
increasing implementation
• 79% HEIs currently use the Diploma
Supplement – 20% more than in 2007
• Of those who do not use the DS, 28% plan
to introduce it
• 61% use ECTS for credit transfer; 26% for
accumulation
Bologna doesn’t stop at
Europe
• Enhances global attractiveness
• Deep integration - sits at heart of
internationalisation strategy
• Erasmus Mundus – worldwide since 2009
• Horizon 2020 – third countries
• Erasmus for All -
To finish with...good
news from the IU survey
• 294 one-year or 12-month Masters
Degrees currently offered – compared to 69
two-year Masters degree programmes
• Recognition of UK qualifications: 72% not
aware of any difficulties experienced by UK
Integrated Masters graduates, 80% not
aware of any difficulties experienced by
one-year full-time Masters graduates –
compares to 66% not aware of difficulties in
2009.
Internationalisation – does it make a
difference to the student experience? A
student and graduate perspective.
Kian Golzari, (MA Soc Sci 2010), Product Development
Manager, Highlander Outdoor Wear
Student Study Abroad Ambassadors,
Kate Goldie and Lynsey Wallace