Etudes Britanniques à l’étranger
Transnational education ‘brain drain’ warning. A study into transnational education has found that it can help train students to fill skills gaps in host countries, but also warned that it can contribute to a brain drain and has not led to enhanced research. Transnational education – which includes ventures such as branch campuses, joint degrees and the validation of overseas courses – has been promoted by the universities and science minister
David Willetts. UK universities had established 25 branch campuses by 2012, according to the Observatory on Borderless Higher Education, in countries including China, the United Arab Emirates, India and Malaysia. In 2010-11 there were 291,595 students studying overseas on programmes validated by UK institutions. But so far there has been “little national data” produced on whether such ventures benefit host countries economically or whether the quality of higher education is boosted, according to the pilot British Council study, released today.
Davie Matthews, Times higher educational, (THE), 14 May 2013
