1. Every student an international student.

We intend to make ‘every student an international student’. This means that all Warwick students will experience inter-cultural learning in a cosmopolitan environment – whether through course modules with an international focus, learning a language, volunteering internationally, collaborating with students from other countries either at Warwick, overseas or virtually. In a global economy, overseas experience is valued by employers and is becoming increasingly attractive to UK students, many of whom want to work internationally during their careers. By working with global employers and our core partner universities we shall seek to ensure that all students wishing to take up a period of study or related work overseas have the opportunity to do so.

2. Improved international diversity regardless of background.

We expect demand from international students will continue to grow so we will re-double our efforts to increase the diversity of our intake. We remain committed to widening participation internationally, to ensure that the most able students can benefit from a Warwick education irrespective of their backgrounds. The Chancellor’s International Scholarships, enabling the highest calibre doctoral students the opportunity to study at Warwick, will be introduced for 2011/12.

3. Develop an International Summer School.

We will develop an International Summer School, to bring talented undergraduates from around the world to an intensive and innovative academic programme at Warwick. This will raise our profile internationally, and increase international postgraduate recruitment.

4. Collaborative research and teaching further developed internationally.

We will continue to develop collaborative research and teaching with leading universities in Europe and around the world, with a particular emphasis on those we have identified as core partners (for example Monash and Boston universities), those we are exploring core partnerships with (in North America, Asia and other regions) along with other developing partnerships such as India’s IIT Kharagpur with WMG. Cooperation in teaching will also be expanded, using external funding like Erasmus Mundus where possible, to develop joint masters and PhD programmes. We will more closely integrate the activities of some of our international partners.

5. Grow Warwick's visibility and positive impacts across sub-Saharan Africa.

We will develop a distinctive programme to support capacity building for research, teaching and administration in HE institutions in sub-Saharan Africa, and to contribute to scholarship and research on Africa and African issues across the broad range of disciplines at Warwick. We will contribute further to these goals by drawing on philanthropic support and student enthusiasm to build on the success of the Warwick in Africa teaching project, to create a cohort of graduates with a cultural, economic and social awareness of the continent. Where appropriate, similar strategies will also be developed for different regions of the world.