Charles Cormack, founder and managing director of Cormack Consultancy Group, tells us how his interest in international education began in 1999 when he started a company to support British companies working in Central and Eastern Europe.  He soon discovered that there was a high demand for UK higher education, leading him to focus on TNE.

Charles reflects on how TNE will become increasingly important due to factors like migration pressures, the global climate crisis, and the potential of online learning. He advocates for equitable TNE partnerships, requiring universities to move away from a recruitment-focused mindset and towards genuine two-ways collaboration with partner institutions, considering the needs of host locations. Charles also shares his interest in the role of technology in making education more affordable and accessible, his work on a very successful twinning programme between UK and Ukrainian universities.., and the memorable experience of a conference in Warsaw marking the achievements of this twinning programme and being appointed to the board of Mariupol State University