Overseas Partnership

Recruitment drive

© City of Glasgow College

Charity Number SC0 36198
 Why
• Stricter rules of UKVI
• Decline in overseas student over years
• Improve the quality of students
• Our readiness to expand the business
• World class facilities in New Campus riverside
 Prospective Plan of India for Higher
Education
• Indian Government has set a target of 21 %
gross enrolment ratio (GER)
• By the end of the Twelfth Plan (2017)
• GER 15% would require investment of USD 7.6
billion
• Indian students going abroad for FE, HE,
Professional Skills training spending an
estimated over USD 4 billion per year
• (Source: Price Waterhouse Coopers-PwC Report
2011)
 Data As Per Indian Maritime University
60000
(IMU) & IIT
50000

40000
No. of students

30000

20000

10000

0
1 2 3 4 5
No. of seats available in successive academic years.
1=2008/09
2=2009/10
3=2010/11
4=2011/12
5=2012/13
 Recruitment Drive
• Participating in the Indian Merchant Navy open
day
• Working together with Partners to support the
recruitment
• Representing CoGC and our huge contribution to
the marine education sector around the world
• Direct interaction with the students and have
influential impact on the prospective students
• Organizing seminars with shipping companies,
and partners
 Opportunities
• HND Marine Engineering
• HND NS
• Graduate Conversion Course ( There are nearly
900,000 graduate engineers): Graduate
engineers have better employment
opportunities in the shipping manning Industry
• Short Courses, HV, HELM, Engineering & Deck
preparatory courses
• New collaboration with shipping companies
• Exploring new sponsored programme
 Risk & solutions
• Geographical Conflict with Partner- working
together for an agreed, common goal
• Fraudulent documents, bogus students, bribery,
poor quality of students- strict compliance with
quality procedure, quality check, financial
affordability check of students at recruitment
stages, Strictly compliance with UKVI rules
• Sea Birth- Exploring new partnership with
shipping companies abroad, working with
partners to guarantee the sea birth
 SWOT Analysis
STRENGHTS
 CoGC established history of Nautical Studies
worldwide
 World class new campus with the most technology
based marine education
 Highly qualified & experience lecturer and
Management team
 Readiness of expanding the business
 Successful partnership with the UK & overseas
shipping companies and Maritime Colleges
OPPORTUNITIES
 India is a big market for maritime education
 HND Course saves two years of education as
compared to India
 Educational loans easily available for foreign education
 Indian student choose shipping as a career.
WEAKNESS
 Less time availability for marketing
 Finding placement for all cadets
 Lack of policy framework for overseas recruitment
 Less awareness of foreign marine courses among
the seafarers specially students
THREATS
 UKVI tier 4 visa rules by fraudulent docs & bogus
students
 Placement problem for non DGS approved institutes
 More dependent on the shipping companies for jobs.