Cross-Border Education: Conceptual Confusion and Data Deficits

Autor/in	Knight, Jane
Titel	Cross-Border Education: Conceptual Confusion and Data Deficits
Quelle	In: Perspectives in Education, 24 (2006) 4, S.15-27 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0258-2236
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Statistical Data; Global Approach; Classification; Educational Policy; Information Needs; College Programs; Higher Education; Student Mobility; Educational Environment; International Education; International Programs + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Globales Denken; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Information need; Informationsbedürfnis; Studienprogramm; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Student; Students; Mobility; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Mobilität; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Internationale Erziehung
Abstract	It is no longer just students who are moving across borders to study. Program and institutions/providers are delivering foreign education programs and qualifications to students in their own countries. A whole new world of international academic mobility is opening up. This article looks at the concepts of cross-border, transnational, and borderless education in terms of key and common elements, and proposes a number of typologies to classify the growing diversity of providers and delivery modes. The serious absence of reliable statistical data on the volume, type, destination, impact and trends related to education being delivered across borders is discussed. This article argues that the lack of solid information on program and provider mobility creates an undesirable environment of speculation, confusion and often misinformation. This can have negative consequences in terms of confidence in the quality and dependability of cross-border education provision and it impedes the analysis needed to underpin solid policy and regulatory frameworks. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10