Policy dialogues

What are the strategic education policy dialogues?
As part of PMI2, a series of high-level dialogues are taking place in key regions around the world. Each dialogue focuses on a specific area and brings together groups of policy makers, senior managers and practitioners from the UK and overseas.

Each dialogue is followed up by a jointly agreed action plan, including research or other appropriate collaborations.

What are the overall aims and objectives of the policy dialogues?

PMI2 partnerships: to communicate the key strands and opportunities for strengthening relationships between the UK and international partners through strategic dialogues in areas of joint priority.
Knowledge sharing: to create a forum for strategic and policy dialogue to increase mutual understanding of priorities and possible co-operation areas.
Towards a common agenda: to identify common agenda, possible co-operation areas and to develop mutually beneficial collaborative projects.

How can I be involved?

Knowledge Transfer Policy Dialogue: Enabling a culture of innovation and outreach

British Council INSPIRE, in partnership with the Pakistan Higher Education Commission, will be hosting a policy dialogue for policy makers and practitioners in the field of knowledge transfer. The event will be held in Islamabad, Pakistan, on 23 and 24 November 2010. Please find links below to the event background document, guidelines and application form for UK participants. Invitations for applications are now being accepted - deadline for submission is Thursday 30th September.

A further outline of the event can be downloaded here

Please download the Application form here

Guidelines for UK applicants are available here

Cross-border higher education in Nigeria: The British Council has been asked to identify UK institutions with links already in Nigeria to be part of a pilot scheme to run cross-border higher education (CBHE) in Nigeria.

Higher and further education institutions in the UK can download past policy dialogue reports on proceedings from the dialogue-specific pages below by using your institution's Education UK password. If you do not have this password, please email the PMI2 Connect team. The series of dialogues will continue through until 2010 with policy makers, senior managers and practitioners from the UK and overseas contacted for their involvement.

What are the themes of past policy dialogues?
For further information on the different themes, please see the following individual dialogue pages:

Japan-UK HE collaboration programme - 12 to 13 February 2009
Education and employability - Abuja, Nigeria, 15 to 17 October 2008
The entrepreneurial university - Colombo, Sri Lanka, 27 to 29 March 2008
Universities in a globalised world - Japan, March 2008
Student mobility in East Asia - Bangkok, Thailand, 4 to 5 February 2008
Education, employability and the creative industries - Indonesia, October 2007
Trans-national education - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, March 2007
International education and employability: developing workforces for the 21st century - Hanoi, Vietnam, February 2007

Who can I contact for further Information?
For more information on the PMI2 Policy Dialogues, please e-mail the PMI2 Connect team: pmi2.connect@britishcouncil.org.