British Council announces additional £500k Grants for industry-academia partnership under GGP

The programme has enabled 36 new courses, with six courses aimed at climate studies and sustainability. GGP has also facilitated an increase of over 30% in the number of enrolments for UK TNE programmes from 9,050 to over 12,000 since the close of academic year 2021/22, while enhancing education quality, employability, and research partnerships.

British Council awarded 12 new and 2 top-up grants worth £500k for industry-academia partnerships across India and the UK, as part of its Going Global Partnerships (GGP) programme. The announcement was made at the India-UK Higher Education Conference in Delhi, organised as part of the largest-ever delegation of the UK’s education sector to India and representatives from India’s education sector. 

Over the past 3 years, the GGP has enabled 70 grants of about £2 million delivered to 155 universities (100 in India, 55 in the UK) and 13 industry collaborations, impacting over 5000 students. The GGP has enabled development of courses that allow easy credit comparability while meeting global standards of education. The programme has enabled 36 new courses, with six courses aimed at climate studies and sustainability. GGP has also facilitated an increase of over 30% in the number of enrolments for UK TNE programmes from 9,050 to over 12,000 since the close of academic year 2021/22, while enhancing education quality, employability, and research partnerships.

Over the week from September 18-22, the delegation will convene with government officials from both central and state governments in India, engage in discussions with policymakers, and hold meetings with senior university leaders representing 19 Indian states. These interactions will take place across the national capital, Ahmedabad, Mumbai, and Chennai. In Delhi, the delegation will be visiting a couple of institutes - IIT Delhi and Ashoka University. This year, the foremost focus of the conference was to promote the internationalisation of higher education and the promotion of transnational education with updates from the GGP programme, which has enabled 26 partnerships across 15 educational institutions in just Delhi and the national capital region.

“ British Council coordinated with the Department for Business and Trade (DBT) to bring together representatives from 31 UK higher education institutions, including British Universities International Liaison Association (BUILA), Universities UK International (UUKi), the Department for Education (DfE UK) and Pearson” according to an official statement from the conference.

The Union Minister of State for Education, Government of India, Dr Subhas Sarkar, Alex Ellis, British High Commissioner to India, Sir Steve Smith, International Education Champion, Government of UK, Maddalaine Ansell, Director Education, British Council, Alison Barrett MBE, Director India, British Council and Rittika Chanda Parruck, Director Education India, British Council, attended sessions at the conference and the Going Global Partnerships Exhibition. The delegation deliberated on new policy measures and activities to support internationalisation, quality assurance and collaborating through teaching, and the different models of TNE allowed under the NEP. 

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