Cross-border Tertiary Education : A Way towards Capacity Development
This report emphasizes that cross-border tertiary education refers to the movement of people, programs, providers, curricula, projects, research and services in tertiary (or higher) education across national jurisdictional borders. Cross-border edu...
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Paris: OECD
2012
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2007/01/8646840/cross-border-tertiary-education-way-towards-capacity-development http://hdl.handle.net/10986/6865 |
| Summary: | This report emphasizes that cross-border
tertiary education refers to the movement of people,
programs, providers, curricula, projects, research and
services in tertiary (or higher) education across national
jurisdictional borders. Cross-border education is a subset
of educational internationalization and can be part of
development cooperation projects, academic exchange programs
and commercial initiatives. The focus of this volume is on
the mobility of students, programs and
providers/institutions. Student mobility remains relatively
small, but has grown at an unprecedented pace in the past
decade. The study concludes that cross-border tertiary
education can be a helpful capacity development tool that
countries and donor countries and agencies should consider
in their development strategies. Finally, with the growth of
trade in education services and the inclusion of the sector
in the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS),
countries and their education community should develop a
better technical understanding of trade agreements. These
agreements can be a tool in their capacity-building
strategy, but the consequences and uncertainties of making
certain commitments should be well understood. Whatever
development strategy they chose, countries should consider
whether cross-border tertiary education should be part of
it, and if yes, how. |
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