UCL-Tohoku University Joint Symposium

Reinventing international university education and the role of globally engaged universities dialogues between the UK and Japan. Our speakers will discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic is changing international student experience and how the pandemic is changing the global engagement among leading universities. The symposium is organised in the framework of the Strategic Partnership between UCL and Tohoku University (Japan). It represents the first opportunity to showcase ongoing joint research on higher education. Particularly, the symposium addresses themes related to leadership, crisis management and global engagement during the COVID-19 pandemic. The first part will focus on the experiences of students in UK, Europe and Japan, the second part will elaborate on the long-term implications of COVID-19 or the governance of universities.