Cross-Border Higher Education and Quality Assurance: Commerce, the Services Directive and Governing Higher Education

✍ Scribed by Maria João Rosa, Cláudia S. Sarrico, Orlanda Tavares, Alberto Amaral (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 290
• Series: Issues in Higher Education
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book analyses the range of potential measures national quality assurance agencies may have to employ to deal with the new issues caused by Cross Border Higher Education (CBHE). The expansion of CBHE raises quality problems, which are currently assessed differently depending on the countries concerned. This has been exacerbated by the growth of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) which have developed very quickly and can be prone to rogue providers. This book considers the steps that have already been taken to ensure quality as well as those ahead. It is important that the swift growth of CBHE is not just seen as a means to increase the revenues of higher education institutions faced with decreasing public funding but also as a means to keep educational standards high.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Cross-Border Higher Education: A New Business?....Pages 1-24
Front Matter....Pages 25-25
Crossing the Border: Some Views, Largely Historical and Occasionally Heretical, on the Sudden Enthusiasm for an Exceedingly Ancient Practice....Pages 27-49
The Business of Cross-Border Higher Education....Pages 51-69
Front Matter....Pages 71-71
The Shift to Strategic Internationalisation Approaches....Pages 73-91
Student Views on Cross-Border Higher Education: The Views of the European Students’ Union....Pages 93-102
Front Matter....Pages 103-103
Cross-Border Higher Education and the Services Directive: Importance, Protection and Success....Pages 105-115
The New Old Debate. Free Movement of Services and the Freedom of Establishment Within the Internal European Market: Does the Directive 2006/123 EC Move Past Education? Concerning the Border of National Sovereignty Within the EU....Pages 117-137
Delivering Education Across Borders in the European Union National Responses to the Services Directive....Pages 139-150
Front Matter....Pages 151-151
National Cases of Cross-Border Higher Education: Austria....Pages 153-165
National Cases of Cross-Border Higher Education: The Experience of the UK....Pages 167-180
Front Matter....Pages 181-181
The OECD/UNESCO Guidelines for Quality Provision in Cross-Border Higher Education: Its Relevance for Quality Assurance in the Past and the Future....Pages 183-201
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)....Pages 203-219
Front Matter....Pages 221-221
Quality Assurance of Cross-border Higher Education – a Case for Collaboration Between National Quality Agencies....Pages 223-243
Quality, E-Learning and Alternative Providers of Higher Education....Pages 245-261
Front Matter....Pages 263-263
Conclusions....Pages 265-285
Back Matter....Pages 287-290

✦ Subjects

Higher Education