Dr. Anthony Manning, Dean for Global and Lifelong Learning at the University of Kent, and Chair of the Internationalisation at Home working group of Universities UK International, tells us about his initial connection with international education through a passion for languages that brought him in different teaching capacities in a Germany, France, China and Japan. Anthony stresses the transformative power of international education, helping people developing that cultural intelligence that allow us to see things from different perspectives, and find best solutions to today's global challenges.
He also stresses the importance of widening opportunities to be exposed to an international experience to students unable to travel internationally through internationalisation at home initiatives, and to raise awareness within local communities of the valuable contribution of international students... and he shares the memorable experience of supporting a student who was throw into the asylum system, through the university sanctuary scholarship system, who decided to change his studies from computer science to social care to give back to society.