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Libya HE Training Gateway
1. Libya and UK – opportunities for
higher education
Dr Joanna Newman
Amanda Selvaratnam
UK Higher Education International Unit
The Training Gateway
2. UK Higher Education
International Unit
• Mission: To represent the UK higher education
sector internationally and to empower, with skills
and knowledge, the sector to secure maximum
value from international opportunities.
3. Strengthening UK-Libya ties
•A new Libyan Government making higher
education and research a priority
•Education: one of seven ‘High Value
Opportunity’ sectors identified by UK Trade
and Investment
•An appetite within the sector for an outward
mission to rekindle existing links – IU survey
4. Scoping Visit: Early 2013
Building sustainable relationships
• Staff and student exchanges – two way mobility
• Institutional partnerships
• Collaborative provision
• Research collaboration
• Capacity-building workshops in key areas for Libyan
HE
Inward capacity-building visit to the UK
Potential Ministerial visit in May 2013
5. Programme and Logistics
•FCO Travel Advice: We advise against all but
essential travel to Zuwara, Az Zawiya, Tripoli, al
Khums, Zlitan and Misrata, and the coastal towns
from Ras Lanuf to the Egyptian Border, with the
exception of Benghazi; we advise against all travel to
all other areas of Libya, including Benghazi.
•Three days based in Tripoli
•Security and in-country travel costs to be covered
by UKTI funding
6. Next Steps
Aimed at Directors of International or PVCs
Expressions of interest to be submitted to
lucy.shackleton@international.ac.uk
by 15 December 2012
8. Healthcare
Training Mission
Open to organisations who develop and deliver training
programmes especially those in the area of:
• Trauma and rehabilitation nursing
• General & specialist nursing
• Allied health professions
• Clinical professions
• Paramedic training
• Mental health
• Training of nurse or health care professional trainers
• Leadership & management of hospitals
9. Programme will include
• Visits and meetings with Ministry of Health, key healthcare
stakeholders at local hospitals/medical centres and
universities
• conference programme focussed on key stakeholders across
government, nursing and allied healthcare sectors (up to 150
people) with the opportunity to deliver workshops and taster
sessions
• Networking reception
Cost £750 including 3 nights accommodation, full security cover
and all mission activities
10. Corporate Training
and SME Development
Feb 10-13th 2013
Open to organisations which develop and deliver training
programmes especially those in the area of:
• Business Development
• Soft skills
• Employability skills
• Entrepreneurship
• Coaching and Mentoring
• Corporate and Executive Training
• Educational Partnerships
• E-learning Solutions
• Leadership and Management Training
11. Programme will include
• Visits and meetings with Ministry of Labour and Capacity
Building, National Oil Corporation, Libyan Petroleum
Institution and Ministry of Economy
• Exhibition and conference programme focussed on key
stakeholders across government, education and corporate
sectors (up to 150 people) with the opportunity to deliver
workshops and taster sessions
• Networking reception
Cost £750 including 3 nights accommodation, full security cover
and all mission activities
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With the Libyans keen to pursue links with overseas universities, there are a number of opportunities for the UK to engage in this region. The Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research has plans for an ambitious campus building programme; links with overseas universities to raise the quality of Libyan institutions (including joint degrees); and research collaborations that could tap into ‘unlimited funding’ (THE, 14 June 2012). The Libyan government plans to offer 20,000 postgraduate scholarships for 2012-2013 and in the past approximately 50% of Libyan scholarship holders have gone to the UK. The British Council has calculated that 10,000 Libyan students, accompanied by their families, would be worth at least £500 million to the UK economy.-----42 institutions completed the Libya survey and 30 list capacity-building in post-conflict countries as an area of interest. Institutional partnershipsUniversity of Nottingham were engaged in pre-conflict Libya (and visited in March 2010), they have institutional partnerships with Al-Sabah University and the University of Tripoli and are keen to re-engageOil and Gas-related cooperationUniversity of Derby has an agreement with the Petroleum Technical Institute in Tripoli to deliver University of Derby-validated courses. This is currently on hold. The University of Musarata has recently approached them. They are keen to re-engage and are in close contact with various MinistriesUniversity of Teesside is hoping to rebuild links with government and oil companies who have sent a number of Libyan students for training in the past. They have also provided some distance learning material to the Petroleum Technical Institute in Tripoli. They have also discussed the possibility of articulations/collaborations with Garyounis University.
Toidentify opportunities for establishing sustainable relationships between UK and Libyan Universities, particularly joint research, joint degrees and leadership To better understand the training and development needs of the HE sector in Libya through round tables and meetings with Libyan universities and stakeholders. To promote UK HE in the context of the large scale postgraduate scholarship programme launched by the Libyan Ministry of HE. To deliver 4-8 workshops on key topics of interest to Libyan universitiesThis will be a scoping visit and the priorities are flexible – the main objective is to provide a framework for UK and Libyan universities to re-establish links leading to sustainable long-term relationships and to provide capacity-building assistance to Libyan universities as they adapt and reformSecurity situation allowing, the plan is for a Ministerial visit to take place in early summer 2013 – with the hope that the Minister will be able to build on priorities identified during this first visit. The IU and Training Gateway have also received UKTI funding for organising an inward capacity building mission
FCO Travel Advice: We advise against all but essential travel to Zuwara, Az Zawiya, Tripoli, al Khums, Zlitan and Misrata, and the coastal towns from Ras Lanuf to the Egyptian Border, with the exception of Benghazi; we advise against all travel to all other areas of Libya, including Benghazi.We will not go ahead with mission if there is any heightened security risk.
Toidentify opportunities for establishing sustainable relationships between UK and Libyan Universities, particularly joint research, joint degrees and leadership To better understand the training and development needs of the HE sector in Libya through round tables and meetings with Libyan universities and stakeholders. To promote UK HE in the context of the large scale postgraduate scholarship programme launched by the Libyan Ministry of HE. To deliver 4-8 workshops on key topics of interest to Libyan universities
Toidentify opportunities for establishing sustainable relationships between UK and Libyan Universities, particularly joint research, joint degrees and leadership To better understand the training and development needs of the HE sector in Libya through round tables and meetings with Libyan universities and stakeholders. To promote UK HE in the context of the large scale postgraduate scholarship programme launched by the Libyan Ministry of HE. To deliver 4-8 workshops on key topics of interest to Libyan universities
Toidentify opportunities for establishing sustainable relationships between UK and Libyan Universities, particularly joint research, joint degrees and leadership To better understand the training and development needs of the HE sector in Libya through round tables and meetings with Libyan universities and stakeholders. To promote UK HE in the context of the large scale postgraduate scholarship programme launched by the Libyan Ministry of HE. To deliver 4-8 workshops on key topics of interest to Libyan universities
Toidentify opportunities for establishing sustainable relationships between UK and Libyan Universities, particularly joint research, joint degrees and leadership To better understand the training and development needs of the HE sector in Libya through round tables and meetings with Libyan universities and stakeholders. To promote UK HE in the context of the large scale postgraduate scholarship programme launched by the Libyan Ministry of HE. To deliver 4-8 workshops on key topics of interest to Libyan universities
Toidentify opportunities for establishing sustainable relationships between UK and Libyan Universities, particularly joint research, joint degrees and leadership To better understand the training and development needs of the HE sector in Libya through round tables and meetings with Libyan universities and stakeholders. To promote UK HE in the context of the large scale postgraduate scholarship programme launched by the Libyan Ministry of HE. To deliver 4-8 workshops on key topics of interest to Libyan universities
