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.
From: Perspectives in Education, pp. 15-27, Vol. 24 (4) December 2006
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