Ireland’s global strategy paves way for internationalisation

As part of the nation’s global strategy, Ireland’s leader, the Taioseach, has gathered a group of government officials to present a “joined up package” on international education, according to a representative of the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation, and Science’s Ireland international cooperation unit.

A centrally managed global brand has the benefit of including all government agencies. We can return to our Department of Justice, which functions similarly to the Home Office here in the UK, and advise them to review their immigration policy. Take a look at this, please. Ian McKenna told delegates on July 10 that they will take that into consideration.

“Our small size and somewhat centrally planned government have given us an advantage in the field of international education,” he continued.

However, he clarified, the introduction of Ireland’s Global Citizens 2030 strategy, which got underway at the start of 2024, is aiding in the promotion of the advantages of internationalization. The goal of the strategy is to establish Ireland as a global center for policy, research, and education.

How can we prepare our pupils to live as global citizens? And when it comes to all of that, we have taken a very intentional choice,” McKenna stated of the strategy.

Once more, this stems from the idea that we want Irish people to operate in multicultural, multiethnic, and global settings. Our pupils must be equipped to function in those situations. They gain that experience both through traveling overseas and by drawing foreign students to our campuses.

It’s in the diversity that exists on our campus, in every institution, and in the setting that our students occupy. Thus, in our opinion, it is crucial,” he stated.

However, McKenna acknowledged that in order to draw in more foreign talent, the nation must make the necessary infrastructure investments.

“We have to make sure that that can be accommodated. We have to make sure that there’s housing, that there’s accommodation available for international students and also visa arrangements – all of these thorny issues,” he said.