Transnational Education : Issues and Trends in Offshore Higher Education

ISBN-13: 9780415372671 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 192 str.

Grant McBurnie;McBurnie/Zigura

Opis

A reflective overview of transnational education today, looking at the new opportunities it offers to students around the world and the challenges it poses to governments and institutions in its implementation.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.