Exporting Transnational Education Institutional Practice, Policy and
This book focuses on the dynamic and rapidly expanding field of transnational higher education (TNE). Despite the increasing importance of TNE and the interest it has attracted from various stakeholders, there is a lack of theoretical and empirical eviden
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Vangelis Tsiligiris and William Lawton
EX P ORTING TRANSNATIONAL EDUCATION Institutional Practice, Policy and National Goals
Exporting Transnational Education
Vangelis Tsiligiris • William Lawton Editors
Exporting Transnational Education Institutional Practice, Policy and National Goals
Editors Vangelis Tsiligiris Nottingham Business School Nottingham Trent University Nottingham, UK
William Lawton Higher Education Consultant London, UK
ISBN 978-3-319-74738-5 ISBN 978-3-319-74739-2 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74739-2 Library of Congress Control Number: 2018943738 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover illustration: © elenabs / Getty Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer International Publishing AG part of Springer Nature. The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
Foreword
The demand for higher education has been growing strongly in the recent decades, with the global number of tertiary enrolments rising from 50 million in 1980 to over 200 million by 2015. Increasing economic prosperity, population growth, the use of English as a lingua franca and the changing labour market needs of a post-industrial ‘knowledge economy’ have fuelled an explosion in the numbers entering universities and colleges around the world. The tendency of demand to outstrip the supply of places in higher education institutions has been most pronounced in fast-growing developing countries like China and India. High rates of economic growth boost the willingness and ability to pay for tertiary education, but it takes years to build and staff high-quality institutions. Some of the excess demand in such countries ends up on campuses in the USA, Australia and the UK. Be
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