JakartaGlobe-Mar 27
According to the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, Indonesia has 55,961 students studying abroad, which marks a 21 percent growth since 2014. Increasingly, Indonesian students are considering a wider variety of study destinations, as well as new options to benefit from higher education offered by other countries. This is where Transnational Education fills the gap. The notion that higher education could jointly be delivered by two or more institutions from different countries has been around for some time. The Code of Good Practice in the Provision of Transnational Education (TNE) issued by the Council of Europe in 2001, later revised by UNESCO and Council of Europe in 2007, defines transnational education as: “All types and modes of delivery of higher education study programs, or set of courses of study, or education services (including those of distance education) in which the learners are located in a country different from the one where the awarding institution is based. Such programs may belong to the education system of a State different from the State in which it operates or may operate independently of any national education system.” Fast forward to 2023, TNE types, modes of delivery, and sizes have grown significantly. Articulation, credit transfer, franchise, branch campus, dual or joint degree, distance delivery, and progression such as 2 +2 are part of today’s TNE offers for students worldwide. The UK is a leading provider of Transnational Education. The sixth edition of Universities UK’s report on The scale of UK higher education transnational education shows TNE is growing rapidly, as demand for higher education is increasing worldwide. In 2020–21, 510,835 students from 228 countries and territories were enrolled in TNE programs from 162 UK providers, a 12.7 percent increase from the previous year. Read more at:
https://jakartaglobe.id/opinion/transnational-education-an-opportunity-for-indonesias-future
