The Partner North East Asia Webinar Series was taken place on 14-18 November, featuring international collaboration opportunities between the UK and the five top priority markets in the region: mainland China, Hong Kong SAR, Japan, Korea and Taiwan.

The event was designed to highlight fresh perspectives on the region’s wealthiest countries to enable UK higher education institutions (HEIs) to inform their strategic plans from 2023 onwards. More specifically, the Partner North East Asia had three aims:

• to assess the operating contexts (e.g., economic, demographic, developmental, geopolitical and educational) – and the risks and challenges - that determine the regional potential for the UK HE sector across student mobility, research and transnational education (TNE).
• to share the best practice of UK and regional education partners, supplemented by insight from the British Council and practitioners on the ground, through case studies and experiences of successful partnership work with countries in North-East Asia.
• to identify ways in which the UK might more meaningfully and successfully engage with North East Asian countries to grow its collaborative footprint in this highly competitive education landscape.

26 expert speakers from government, local education authorities, universities, study abroad agencies and the British Council delivered the webinars to 466 online attendees, with participation from 85 higher education providers.

For more details, please refer to the attached summary report.