It’s complicated: How Queen Mary University, London, is delivering transnational education in China

Transnational education in China is about more than quality assurance and delivery; it also involves complex taxation and legal issues, as Professor Laurie Cuthbert explains.
In 2004, Queen Mary University of London set up a partnership with Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT) to offer an innovative set of jointly run degree programmes in telecommunications systems and networks. The partnership is genuinely equal - students graduate with a degree from BUPT and from the University of London, and teaching is split 50/50 between the universities. Students are admitted under the normal GaoKao system in China and must score significantly above the top national line, the line that is a minimum for key universities. This approach has been so successful that it has now been extended to Nanchang University in the field of Biomedicine. See more...