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| Borderless Report November 2011 | |||||||||||||||
| Issue 8, 17 November 2011 | |||||||||||||||
| ‘Adapting to Disruptive Times’: Conference report | |||||||||||||||
Disruptive challenges to higher education, how the sector is adapting, the role of new players, and some informed crystal ball-gazing constituted the elements of a one-day conference on 3 November entitled ‘Adapting to Disruptive Times: Emerging Models for HE Provision’. It was organised by the Observatory and University of London International Programmes and held at Senate House in London. ‘Open Doors 2011’: World roundupThe Institute of International Education (IIE) in New York released its annual ‘Open Doors’ report on student mobility to and from the US on 14 November. It is funded by the State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. The inward mobility data are for the academic year 2010-11 and study-abroad data are for 2009-10. The overall inward total was 723,000, a 4.7% increase over the previous year (and greater than the 3% recorded a year earlier). China and India accounted for 1/3 of the total, and the growth is almost entirely at the undergraduate and non-degree levels. What follows is a round-up of international news coverage and reaction. The future of transnational educationAre we witnessing the death throes of transnational education? At least within Australia, transnational education (TNE) has been a key aspect of the internationalisation strategies of tertiary institutions. Universities in other parts of the world have not all joined Australia in this activity. The Erasmus Programme has been an important tool for European internationalisation strategies whereas online provision has worked for private universities in the US and elsewhere. Online TNE delivery is a growing phenomenon by individual universities (Oxford Brookes) and consortia (Open Universities). Why global universities should adopt e-learningOf the top 20 universities in the THE World University Rankings 2011-2012, five run a campus abroad. Although branch campuses and partnerships with foreign universities are on the rise, they require a level of investment and risk management that can be intimidating, even for universities with big endowments. But investment in online learning will allow universities to benefit from economies of scale and meet increasing demand from developing countries. A growing number of higher education institutions are taking this forward. New books, reports, initiatives and conferencesInternational prizes and scholarshipsHE news from around the world |
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