Internationalisation And Trade In Higher Education Opportunities And Challenges

The last decade has seen new forms of cross-border post-secondary education, not only international student mobility, but also the mobility of educational programmes and institutions across borders. This book brings together up-to-date statistics, case studies and policy reports. It analyses the major trends and developments in cross-border post-secondary education in North America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific region. It identifies the rationales of stakeholders and the major approaches to cross-border education. It then focuses on the main challenges that the rapid growth in cross-border education presents for policies both at the national and international levels. Topics covered include: policy initiatives to promote cross-border post-secondary education; individual, institutional and country rationales for delivering or receiving cross-border education service; size and growth of cross-border post-secondary education in terms of student mobility, programme mobility (e.g. e-learning) and institutional mobility (e.g. international branch campuses and foreign direct investments); assessment of the possible impact of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (WTO); challenges facing cross-border post-secondary education as well as domestic post-secondary education systems in a context of growing internationalisation (e.g. regulation in terms of quality assurance and recognition of qualifications, cost and financing, equity of access, trade agreements, capacity building in receiving countries, mobility of highly skilled personnel, cultural diversity).Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Staff is the author of 'Internationalisation And Trade In Higher Education Opportunities And Challenges', published 2004 under ISBN 9789264015043 and ISBN 9264015043.