We are delighted to invite UK higher education providers (HEPs) to join us for a UK Open Day in Indian Schools in Bangalore and Coimbatore on the week of 27 November 2023 UK. This offers the opportunity to:

• participate in the tour across strong student mobility belt in South India  
• interact with school counsellors, conduct workshops with counsellors and students, meet and engage students and gain an understanding of the Indian undergraduate market 
• build networks and relationships with some of India’s top schools and their counsellors and leaders
• promote the UK as a whole and position the UK’s world class universities to school counsellors, students in schools 
• develop and deliver workshops and sessions for counsellors and students.

The one-week tour will visit 2 cities. The tour will engage top schools where students typically choose to go abroad for higher studies and have a good career counselling culture, as well as emerging mobility-source schools. There will be no hard selling of individual UK HEPs and their courses. However participating UK HEPs will get a chance to talk about their institution and create awareness about their brand to key influencers and students during the tour. UK HEPs are encouraged to bring their alumni who are perhaps based in these cities to join the sessions and talk about their UK experiences

Draft programme

Interested UK HEPs are requested to fill in an online form with their details latest by Friday 6 October 2023

UK HEPs are expected to pay for their own international and domestic travels as well as accommodation. The British Council will make recommendations. There is no participation fee to be paid to the British Council.

British Council will organise and pay for local travel in each city as part of the tour.

A maximum of 25 UK HEIs will be accepted on each tour on first-come, first-served basis. The tour will go ahead with 15.

The report on August 2023's open day  in Mumbai and Pune is available to download below.