How a Misplaced Attention to the Student Experience Can Limit the Progressive Impact of TNE
This chapter considers how quality assurance challenges are preventing our globally interconnected communities to fully harness the progressive potential of innovative forms of education provision such as TNE. TNE is a way to make available education prog
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Importing Transnational Education
Vangelis Tsiligiris William Lawton • Christopher Hill Editors
Importing Transnational Education Capacity, Sustainability and Student Experience from the Host Country Perspective
Editors Vangelis Tsiligiris Nottingham Business School Nottingham Trent University Nottingham, UK
William Lawton Higher Education Consultant Twickenham, UK
Christopher Hill British University in Dubai Dubai, United Arab Emirates
ISBN 978-3-030-43646-9 ISBN 978-3-030-43647-6 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43647-6 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021 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, expressed 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: © VIDOK/ Getty This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG. The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
Foreword
In many cities around the globe you will encounter billboards announcing the presence of international universities and colleges dotted incongruously among the city’s education precincts, shopping centers, suburbs and industrial parks. These cameo appearances by far-flung academic brands can be puzzling at first sight. How did the University of Upper Iowa come to be running programs here in Hong Kong? What is a Carnegie Mellon University campus doing here in the center of Adelaide? Why would Limkokwing University of Creative Technology want to be delivering programs here in Phnom Penh? Exact numbers are hard to come by, but it is safe to say that there is something like a million students around the world enrolled on campuses and in programs of foreign universities. In recent years we have seen the emergence of an extensive body of literature on transnational education from the point of view of exporting countries
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