Guy Perring, Regional Director Asia at Etio (formerly i-graduate), tells us how his international education experience started as an exchange student of American Literature at the University of North Carolina, and eventually as English language teacher in Japan. This experience took him to the British Council, where he went to lead on education promotion in Malaysia in the very early days of TNE expansion in the region.
Guy tells us of his current work with the International Student Barometer in Asia sharing insights into the international student experience across the region, and stressing the importance of familiarising local communities about the benefits of international education. He also points to the trends towards the regionalisation of internationalisation, increasingly observable in Asia, and how from an originally Western concept international education is increasingly being appropriated and approached in different ways in different countries… and he shares the memorable experience of taking a Times Higher Education reporter around different TNE operations in Malaysia at a time when TNE was barely on the map on the UK, and observing the interest that the resulting piece received in the sector.