Our Vice-Chancellor, Professor Glynis Breakwell, has today returned from a three-day visit to Brazil with the Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg.
The visit built on the growing links between the UK and Brazil and focused on five key areas including: trade & investment; science & technology; education; sport; and the green economy.
Professor Breakwell was a member of a group of nine vice-chancellors representing leading British universities. Nick Clegg was also accompanied by David Willetts, Minister of State for Universities and Science; Lord Green, Minister of State for Trade & Investment; Jeremy Hunt, Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media & Sport; and Jeremy Browne, Minister of State for the Foreign & Commonwealth Office.
During the visit the Deputy Prime Minister’s party met President Dilma Rousseff to discuss her new scholarship programme. At a roundtable meeting in Brasilia, attended by the vice-chancellors and rectors from UK and Brazilian universities, both countries welcomed the signing of an agreement to fund up to 450 new scholarships for Brazilian students to the United Kingdom over the next five years.