PMI Student Experience strand

The Prime Minister’s Initiative (PMI) was originally launched by the Government in 1999 as a 5-year strategy to increase the number of international students in the UK. In 2006 a second phase of the PMI (known as PMI2) was launched. This five-year strategy comprises five interconnected projects (marketing and communications, HE partnerships, FE partnerships, student experience and employability) and aims to:

• attract an additional 70,000 international students to UK HE and an additional 30,000 international students to UK FE
• double the number of countries sending more than 10,000 students per annum to the UK
• improve international student satisfaction in the UK
• achieve significant growth in the number of partnerships between the UK and other countries

PMI2 therefore represents a major opportunity to increase the focus on the importance of the international student experience. UKCISA coordinates the student experience project and manages a wide range of associated activities. Some projects are being run in-house and others are being developed in consultation with experts to produce publications and resources and run events.

Find out further details of the employability project, which is run by NASES in conjunction with AGCAS. The British Council manage both the marketing and partnerships projects.

A full overview of the PMI can be found from the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS) and British Council