Review of Transnational Higher Education
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DOI: 10.23977/etmhs.2018.29074
Author(s)
Zhang Zhenzhen, Gu Juan
Corresponding Author
Zhang Zhenzhen
ABSTRACT
In the past three decades, China becomes an increasingly popular market for International Higher Education and Transnational Higher Education (TNHE). Because the TNHE always involve a pair of institutions from two countries, the definition and regulation of other countries significantly influence the TNHE programs in China. Distinct from education and training provided in a purely distance mode, transnational education and training includes a physical presence of instructors offshore, either directly by the Australian provider, or indirectly through a formal agreement with a local institution/organization. However, in mainland China, most of the TNHE programs adopting neither mode above for the authorizing of China reinforced that the TNHE programs held in China must be aligned and paired with a local HEI, which almost eliminated the possibility of establishing an international branch campus independently by a foreign HEI alone.
KEYWORDS
Transnational higher education, education and teaching activities, cross-border education