International bright young things

By Jessica Moore. From Europe to the Far East, British universities are enticing students overseas to their outreach campuses.

"It is quite difficult to get UK students to go abroad," points out Professor Rob Robson, provost and CEO of the University of Reading's new Malaysia campus. "But there will always be some attracted to study overseas, and we would like to encourage that." So, from 2014, students will be able to study part or all of their University of Reading qualification in Johor Bahru, southern Malaysia.
Similar opportunities are springing up all over the world. Postgraduate students can also study at the University of Nottingham's China and Malaysia campuses, for example, or at the Edinburgh-based Heriot-Watt University's campus in Dubai, or at University College London's Qatar campus, to name a few international campuses of UK universities. The University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) is opening a new campus in Cyprus in 2012, and another is planned in Thailand in 2014, which will offer MBAs and a range of postgraduate programmes. More...