What’s worked in other TNE?

HOW TO DELIVER TRANSNATIONAL EDUCATION AND TO WHOM?

ALL STAFF STUDENTS HOST COUNTRY TNE STAFF

What’s worked in other TNE? What’s worked in other TNE? What’s worked in other TNE? What’s worked in other TNE?

Evolving over time Flexible study options Adapting Academic leads in country
Strategic approach Quality of students Familiarity Continuing professional
Whole of university Global footprint development
approach Ministerial support Tutors in residence
Partnering with the country
Relevance to local and
international contexts

EXAMPLE
EXAMPLE

EXAMPLE
LANCASTER UNIVERSITY GHANA NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY MEDICINE MALAYSIA (NUMED) UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH
VALIDATED DEGREES AT MSA (CAIRO)
Lancaster University Ghana is the first British Newcastle University established NUMed in 2009 to deliver undergraduate degrees in medicine
University branch campus in Ghana. It was and biomedical sciences in Malaysia. As part of their studies, students have to obtain clinical MSA University degrees are all delivered in
established to develop graduates with skills experience. To facilitate this, NUMed views and acts on a ‘relationship with Malaysia’ to develop partnership with UK universities. Greenwich
and knowledge to meet Ghana and West strong partnerships with the country’s local and national health authorities. validates programmes in the Faculties of
Africa’s industrial, societal and public sector Engineering, Pharmacy, Computer Sciences,

EXAMPLE
needs. Lancaster has invested comparable Biotechnology and Management Sciences.
capital and human resources into both the Greenwich programmes staff spend 85-90%
Ghana and UK campuses in relation to the BANGOR COLLEGE CHINA of their time in Cairo. Resulting in tutors
campuses’ service needs and scale. This Ministerial support was a key foundation to establishing Bangor University and Central South with better understanding of local conditions
quickly made their commitment to the University of Forest and Technology’s joint school campus which opened in 2014. Chinese and culture, which staff and students alike
campus clear to the Ghanaian partner. government actively wanted to encourage international activity between provincial universities. value. The arrangement also improves
They were drawn to the academic strengths of both universities’ portfolios, and the socio-economic communications between the universities.
benefits of an investment like the joint campus for the region.
Joint initiative

The keys to success highlighted in this poster are taken from the case study examples in HEGlobal (2016),
The Scale and Scope of UK Higher Education Transnational Education (TNE). The research was conducted
@HE_Global
by W-ECD. Our thanks go to the universities featured for sharing their time, experience and data with us. #tneuk