Grant McBurnie, Christopher Ziguras

Transnational Education (eBook, PDF)

Issues and Trends in Offshore Higher Education

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134192960
• Artikelnr.: 42981244

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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