Webinar-Transnational Education: Growth at the Expense of Quality?

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How important in TNE for your institution's

internationalization strategy?

n=204

Based on the poll of registrants

of University World News-

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Transnational Education on

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Not Important at All

4%

Not

Applicable/Not

Sure

9%

Somewhat

Important

13%

Important

26%

Very Important

48%


Growth

Quality

Growth at the expense of quality?

?

Yes

34%

No

33%

Don't

Know/Can't

Say

33%

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Transnational

Education

Definition

TNE is broadly defined as:

“all types of higher

education study programs,

or sets of courses of study, or

educational services

(including those of distance

education) in which the

learners are located in a

country different from the

one where the awarding

institution is based.”

ResourcesQualitative Control

Complexity Type of Global Engagement

Validation

Franchise

Twinning program

Fly-out model

Dual degree program

Joint degree program

Online program

International (branch) campus

Low

HighSource: UNESCO/Council of Europe (2001)

Code of Good Practice in the

Provision of Transnational Education


‘Glocal’ Students:

Global Experiences

+ Local Cost

21% of all foreign students in OECD

countries came from countries that

share land or maritime borders

One out of five students studying

wholly overseas for a UK degree

through a distance learning program

(HESA, UK)

70% of international students in

Japan are from China, Korea and

Vietnam

More Malaysian students in branch

campuses of UK universities (45,000)

than those going to the UK (15,000)

~12,000 Indian students pursued

MBBS from China in 2012-2014

‘Glocals’ are expanding

segment of students seeking

international education

experience/credential while

staying in the country or

region

Source: Choudaha, R. (2013). Know your

international student – Global or glocal?

University World News


Dr. Stéphan

Vincent-Lancrin

• Senior Analyst, Project

Leader and Deputy Head of

Division at the Organisation

for Economic Co-operation

and Development

(Directorate for Education

and Skills)

Source: Vincent-Lancrin, S., D. Fisher and S. Pfotenhauer (2015), Ensuring Quality in Cross-Border Higher Education: Implementing the

UNESCO/OECD Guidelines, OECD Publishing, Paris.

Compliance with the Recommendation by country and stakeholder


Dr. Nigel Healey

Pro-Vice-Chancellor

(International) at

Nottingham Trent University,

UK

Source: Healey, N., 2015. Towards a risk-based typology for transnational education., Higher Education, 69 (1), pp. 1-18.

Reputation risk versus transfer of control


Dr. Jason E Lane

“…state regulations primarily focus

on issues pertaining to the approval

process of expansion, mandating

administrative requirements,

providing comparable programs,

and guarding against unnecessary

competition; whereas there is limited

focus on quality.”• Senior Associate Vice-

Chancellor and Vice Provost

for Academic Planning and

Strategic Leadership, State

University of New York or

SUNY

Lane, J. E., Kinser, K. & Knox, D. (2013). Regulating Cross-Border Higher Education: A Case Study of the United States. Higher Education Policy 26: 147-172.


Dr. Elizabeth Stroble

Webster University Ghana Campus is

accredited by the Ghana National

Accreditation Board (NAB) and the

United States Higher Learning

Commission (HLC).

• President of Webster

University, USA


Shifting regulations…

UAE education ministry warns students of unaccredited online foreign degree; provides a list of 100+ approved universities

The MoE China “will strengthen the quality assurance systems of Sino-foreign cooperation in running joint programs and

institutes….It has also committed to improving the

management of penalties and mechanisms for institutions to

exit programs.”


Emergence of “alternative

providers”

“A recent and growing

sector of higher education

composed of companies or

organizations that offer

higher education

experiences operating

apart from traditional

colleges and universities”

Overseas

Pathway

Providers

MOOCs


The Future of Transnational

Education

“…a future where

education will be

unbundled and degrees will

be disaggregated ‘into

smaller credential

units…with the possibility

that the credentialing entity

may be different from the

institution that offers the

course“ – Future of MIT

Education Report


Future Growth Opportunities


Which of the following is the biggest

growth opportunity in TNE?

Other (Please Specify)

6%

Twinning

7%

International branch

campuses

10%

Validation/Franchise

10%

Joint/Dual degrees

26%

Online education

41%

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Future Quality Challenges


Which of the following is the biggest

challenge in assuring quality of TNE?

Pace of

technological

change

7%

Other (Please

Specify)

7%

Emergence of third-

party providers

12%

Growth ambitions of

institutional growth

18%Bureaucracy of

government

regulations

23%

Processes of quality

assurance agencies

33%

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