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UK, RI partner on higher education to deal with ‘ridiculous cost’
Well-heeled Indonesians like to send their children abroad to give them an educational edge over their peers. While few can afford this, a bilateral partnership promises to let Indonesians obtain foreign degrees without even leaving the country.
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bilateral partnership with the United Kingdom promises to let Indonesian students obtain foreign degrees without leaving the country.
In a bid to overcome the issue of prohibitively expensive quality education, the government has welcomed a delegation of UK universities for a collaborative program with local universities set to launch next year.
Represented by its international education champion Steve Smith, the UK government said the venture was aimed at bumping up student numbers going into both countries reciprocally.
“We can do so much more together. […] we can remove the barriers, encourage more inclusive and balanced partnership between the two [countries],” the professor said on Thursday.
There are approximately 605,000 international students studying in the UK, but only 3,400 of them are from Indonesia, and Smith said the yearly figure of Indonesian students enrolling in higher education in the UK had been consistent for many years.
In addition, there are 510,000 students worldwide studying for British degrees in their own countries through what is known as transnational education (TNE), which is an arrangement where an institution either sets up a campus abroad or partners with a local institution, so that local students can study in said establishment without actually having to travel to the country in which the awarding institution is based.
However, only 925 Indonesian students are studying at UK universities through TNE.
