Dr. Vicky Lewis, tells us about her path into international education and consultancy, starting from a life-changing year abroad in Germany as an A-level student. Vicky tells about her experiences working in HE providers across the UK nations including setting up international offices at a time when international student recruitment was booming. She shares how through her DBA in Higher Education Management she started looking at different drivers and approaches to internationalisation across the UK HE sector, which eventually motivated her to take the plunge into consultancy.
Vicky also tells us how through her DBA research she looked at ‘integrated internationalism’, that ethos of international cooperation that is currently being challenged in many countries, including traditionally receiving countries of international students, and that could underpin today’s growing calls for equitable TNE partnerships … and she shares the memorable experience of walking barefoot exhausted along a beach in Penang at sunset after one of the multi-country British Council recruitment mission back, and thinking how lucky she was working in intled.