Cross border education in the United Arab Emirates

By Ruth Graf, Professional Development Manager, EAIE. Cross border education extends beyond the mobility of individuals to the movement of programmes and providers across frontiers and the establishment of foreign higher education provision. Countries in the Gulf region, like the United Arab Emirates, are at the forefront of initiatives in transnational education. Needless to say, recent developments and research were one of the hot topics during the recent Going Global Conference in Dubai.
During the Going Global conference, the preliminary results of a new British Council study ‘The shape of things to come 2: the evolution of transnational education’ were presented and discussed. The analysis not only looked at the developments in transnational education (TNE) in recent years, but specifically examined the situation in a number of TNE host countries and aimed at answering a number of questions such as: What are the motivations of countries to invite foreign providers to establish HE provision? What forms of TNE are established? What are the benefits of, but also the problems with TNE provision?Read more...