2014 Summer Forum: Transnational education

As access to the UK becomes more challenging for European students, are transnational education programmes the answer?

Scholars seeking refuge in higher education institutions should be viewed in terms of opportunity, not liability.

At one university in Brazil, a programme aimed at improving living situations in impoverished communities has found an unlikely international partner in Mozambique.

This paper reports on part of a larger research project funded by the Australian Office for Learning and Teaching. The project explored the professional development needs of transnational teaching teams across a range of academic disciplines in two Australian universities and their offshore partners.

In this executive summary of a session at EAIE Prague 2014, panellists suggested taking a forward-looking approach to transnational education by examining future internal institutional as well as external global trends. Future trends included demographic and geographic trends, student segments and the motivations of each, the institution's future goals, and the lessons learned from past experiences.