British Council

Building on research and reports already produced on perceptions of the UK, the UK’s influence and trends in soft power internationally, the British Council wishes to commission a survey of young people in the G20, plus a limited number of additional priority countries/territories, to explore how the UK is perceived compared with other G20 economies. The British Council wishes to build up new data, comparative data and tracking data on different aspects of the UK’s standing in the world to inform its own strategy and programme development and for engagement with stakeholders. The survey will have education, culture and people factors at its core but will also include questions about existing engagement with the UK and other G20 states, future intentions for engagement as well as questions about wider aspects of the UK and other leading economies, including consideration of the role of values and a range of other cultural, social and economic factors in perceptions of...

The British Council is looking for a partner to work with us over 12 months with a possible 12-month extension to deliver monitoring and data capture services for two large-scale Higher education global programmes called ‘International Student Mobility and Marketing’ (ISMM) and ‘Insight and Engagement’ (I&E), and more specifically the Education Insight hubs that form a critical part of that programme. The purpose of the ISMM programme is to promote UK education to prospective international students and those that influence them (education advisers, agents and counsellors) by learning and development tools and offering accurate, comprehensive, and current information about opportunities to study in the UK.

The British Council is looking for an evaluation of the Education Insight hub, which covers the East Asia region. The Education Insight hubs provide analysis and insights which support the UK Higher Education and TVET sectors to internationalise - We have a network of Hubs located across the British Council regions producing a portfolio of education intelligence to facilitate our key stakeholders’ overseas engagement and support internationalisation strategies. The overarching objective of this Insight work is to cement and expand the British Council’s reputation as a leading source of education intelligence. The East Asia hub was the first to be launched and had been running in its present guise since April 2022. The British Council would like to review how the support provided by the hub is valued by the higher education and TVET sectors in the UK, how the various outputs are used by the sectors to support their engagement with the East Asia region and how this...