1st Edition
Transnational Education Issues and Trends in Offshore Higher Education
192 Pages
by
Routledge
188 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
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While the international mobility of students is a well-established feature of higher education, the international mobility of institutions and courses on a large scale is a more novel phenomenon. Transnational education is at the leading-edge of the most fundamental changes taking place in higher education today.
Topics discussed in this new volume include:
the extent and form of offshore... Read more
1 Introduction: transnational providers and the creation of a global higher education market PART I Crossing boundaries: commerce and culture in the offshore classroom 2 Offshoring 101: the growth of transnational education 3 Risky business: international outsourcing and foreign investment by universities 4 Teaching at the peripheries 5 The cultural politics of transnational education PART II Redrawing boundaries: re-establishing control over transnational education 6 Regulating foreign providers: capacity building and enrichment 7 Divergent strategies for governing transnational higher education: Greek protectionism and Malaysian capacity building 8 Principles guiding quality assurance in transnational higher education 9 Global convergence in quality assurance 10 Trade agreements: abolishing barriers and erecting barricades 11 Conclusion
Biography
Grant McBurnie is Executive Officer International at Australia’s Monash University, and was formerly the institution’s director of transnational quality assurance programs. Christopher Ziguras is Senior Research Fellow at RMIT University’s Globalism Institute.
