Beschreibung:
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.
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