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UKTI Education
- High Value Education Opportunities
COBIS Annual Conference, 11 May 2015
UKTI Education’s purpose
• To help UK education and training organisations win
business overseas
• Primary focus on delivering high value education
opportunities
– identify and develop opportunities
– mobilise a co-ordinated UK response
– support UK bidders / consortia
What is an education HVO?
• Distinct approach to HVOs in education
– large, complex commercial education opportunities
– likely to result from significant system change
– likely to benefit from Government-to-Government engagement /
partnership approach
– business opportunities with an aggregate value of £100m+ across a range of contracts, over time
• Range from major formal global tender processes to
bespoke turnkey solutions
Focus for delivery in 2015/16
The Gulf
Kazakhstan
Focus education HVOs
for 2015/16
Other priority markets
China
Malaysia
Latin
America
East Africa
Opportunities in the Gulf
The Gulf
• Saudi Arabia
– Operating 100+ TVET colleges
(Colleges of Excellence)
– Qualifications and assessments
(Saudi Skills Standards)
• Qatar
– Opening/operating UK schools
(~20 new schools by 2020)
– Opportunities with Jasoor, World
Cup 2022 subsidiary responsible for
TVET
• UAE
– Opening/operating UK schools
(~200K new school places by 2020)
– Tourism, hospitality & EFL training
for the Dubai World Expo 2020
Other key HVO projects for 2015/16
Focus education HVOs
Kazakhstan
• Supporting system-wide reforms (working with
Ministry of Education and Science), including
developing the capacity and capability of universities
and reforming the TVET sector
for 2015/16
Other priority markets
China
• Education, training and
qualifications for the
financial and professional
services sector
• Increasing international
schools provision
• Reforming higher education
(600+ universities)
Latin America
•Large-scale programmes to
improve English language
proficiency (in Peru and
Colombia)
•Improving TVET, particularly
models of training, curriculum,
assessment and English
language provision (Colombia)
Malaysia
East Africa
• A DFID-funded programme in Kenya,
Mozambique, Tanzania and Uganda, to
develop the local skills required for the
growing oil and gas sector
• Supporting capacity building in the higher
education sector
• Improving the quality and quantity of industry-led
TVET provision
• English language training for graduates and for
business
• Increasing private and international schools
provision in regions of urban development
Opportunities to Get Involved
• Get in touch with your local UKTI international trade advisor
• Register for UKTI business opportunity updates
• Register to receive UKTI Education market briefing emails
• Attend UKTI Education events and formal briefings
• Meet UKTI Education teams in market
• Future project: become part of the UKTI Education directory of
support service providers
Education HVOs – in summary
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Significant commitment to supporting UK education sector overseas
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new strategic programme targeting large-scale opportunities
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supplements UKTI’s existing services for education and training
companies
• Please get in touch
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Local international trade advisor: www.greatbusiness.gov.uk/ukti
Business opportunity updates: www.businessopportunities.ukti.gov.uk
webpage: www.gov.uk/ukti-education
UKTI Education email: [email protected]
• Gulf enquiries: [email protected]
www.gov.uk/ukti-education