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Export resources to enable global reach

The UK Skills Partnership Export Resources hub brings together practical guidance, tools and insights designed to support UK skills and training organisations in successfully entering and expanding within international markets. Reflecting the Partnership’s commitment to strengthening the global reach of UK technical and vocational education and training, these resources provide a clear, accessible starting point for organisations looking to build export capability, understand market opportunities, and position high-quality UK expertise effectively overseas.

International Education Strategy [PDF]

The UK Government’s International Education Strategy setting out the government’s ambition for education exports and how it will support the UK education sector to access global opportunities.

UK International Offer Brochure: Advancing Talent with UK Education [PDF]

This is the UK Education Sector’s international offer brochure. This brochure showcases the exceptional standards, quality and cutting edge thinking that underpin the UK’s education offer. It has been developed by the Education Sector Action Group (ESAG) and the sectors they represent.

Export and Global Market Support Information Sheet [PDF]

You can download all of this information in one handy PDF document for offline use and sharing with your colleagues. This Export Support Information Sheet contains lots of links to useful information to help your organisation achieve its education exporting ambitions.

UK Government Information and support

Through the Department for Business and Trade’s brilliant and extensive range of business support services, UK organisations can compare international markets, develop robust export plans, and access tailored guidance aligned to their sector and target countries. This really should always be your first port of call for business advice for domestic or global activity.

Here we highlight a comprehensive ecosystem of support, including access to the Export Support Service, the Export Support Directory, and international market hubs offering country-specific intelligence, sector insights, and connections to local expertise.

This insight enables organisations to move from ambition to evidence-based decision-making on market selection, routes to entry, regulatory requirements, and in-country partnerships. Crucially, UK organisations are able to raise and address trade barriers, and participate in free webinars, events and CPD training through the UK Export Academy ensuring that export strategies remain informed, agile, and grounded in real-time insights from priority markets.

Business Growth Service

This should be your first port of call for all things business growth. This Department for Business and Trade portal offers an extensive range of free guidance, services and support to help you explore the potential of exporting. This is an essential resource to support your exporting ambitions. https://www.business.gov.uk/

Export Support Directory

The Export Support Directory is a quick and easy way to find and connect with export support experts from around the globe.

Business Academy

The Department for Business and Trade’s Business Academy delivers a wide range of FREE export information, advice and guidance and lots of training sessions aimed at supporting micro, small and medium companies achieve their international ambitions.

Ask the Export Support Team

You can ask any question for your business, including on exporting to new markets, paperwork you need to sell your goods abroad and rules for a specific country where you want to sell services. Access via https://www.gov.uk/get-help-export-query

Report / View a Trade Barrier

A trade barrier is something that slows down, limits or prevents a UK business exporting to or investing in an overseas market. You can report a new trade barrier or view an existing entry: https://www.business.gov.uk/report-trade-barrier/.

Aid / donor / development funding

For Aid funded agencies / donor / development organisations who may have funded projects that might be of interest to you, please see the UK Government’s Guidance. You can set up a subscription to receive updates. There is a list of the international development funding programmes from FCDO here: https://www.gov.uk/international-development-funding

UK Export Finance

UK Export Finance’s mission is to ensure no viable UK export fails for lack of finance or insurance from the private sector. To see the range of UK Export Finance products and services available to help you export, please see https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/our-products

UK Trade and Investment Core Statistics Book

The most up to date snapshot of the UK’s trade and investment position, summarising trade statistics produced by ONS, HMRC, DBT and others: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/trade-and-investment-core-statistics-book.

Trade and investment factsheets

These Government factsheets summarise the latest statistics on trade and investment between the UK and individual overseas partners. https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/trade-and-investment-factsheets

UK Trade in Numbers

Trade statistics are derived from several sources and can be presented in different ways. The UK’s trade statistics are primarily provided by ONS releases including the ONS monthly UK trade, ONS UK quarterly trade by partner country, and ONS UK balance of payments. https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/uk-trade-in-numbers/uk-trade-in-numbers-web-version

Exporting country guides

The Department for Business and Trade publish a range of country guides for UK businesses who are interested in selling overseas: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/exportingcountry-guides

Managing overseas business risk

This UK Government information provides advice on how UK businesses might identify and mitigate some of the potential security and political risks to overseas trading.

OTHER SOURCES OF VALUABLE INFORMATION

Here are further sources of information which could strengthen your organisation’s global strategic development by broadening the evidence base. These include trusted international organisations, sector bodies, partner insights and market intelligence from in-country networks.

You might also find it useful to regularly search the internet for country market guides, policy updates, sector reports and education-specific developments that can inform positioning and delivery approaches. As always, we recommend that with all external information and sources, you should conduct appropriate due diligence to verify the credibility and relevance of the information being supplied before it is used to inform your organisation’s strategic decisions.

Please note that from time to time, the links supplied may change as part of ongoing updates.

UKSP Brochure [PDF]

Download the UKSP brochure – summary information all about the UK Skills Partnership (UKSP)

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