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

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.  

Chapter 1. Introduction; Alberto Amaral.- PART I: ANALYSING THE PROBLEM.- Chapter 2. Crossing the Border: Some Views, Largely Historical and Occasionally Heretical, On the Sudden Enthusiasm for an Exceedingly Ancient Practice; Guy Neave.- Chapter 3. The Business of Cross-Border Higher Education; Jamil Salmi and Orlanda Tavares.- PART II: THE VIEW OF STAKEHOLDERS.- Chapter 4. The Shift to Strategic Internationalisation Approaches; Andr?e Sursock.- Chapter 5. The View of the European Students Union on CBHE; Tiago Martins.- PART III: THE SERVICES DIRECTIVE.- Chapter 6. Cross-Border Higher Education and the Services Directive: Importance, Protection, Success; Luigi Berlinguer.- Chapter 7. 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; Jan de Groof.- Chapter 8.&lӃ