Schulze (2023) Embedding offshore campuses in skill formation: from ‘globalising’ HE to ‘localising’ foreign universities

Which roles do foreign universities play in regional economies? And which varying contributions to local skill formation can differing types of offshore campuses make? Marc Schulze’s latest article investigates the varying on-site embeddedness of offshore campuses in the Singapore context. It is found that the shifting engagement of the Singapore state with TNE has led Read more about Schulze (2023) Embedding offshore campuses in skill formation: from ‘globalising’ HE to ‘localising’ foreign universities[…]

Rottleb (2022) Gateway cities for transnational higher education? Doha, Dubai and Ras al‐Khaimah as regional amplifiers in networks of the ‘global knowledge‐based economy’

Cities are territorial and social nodes in the networks that constitute global capitalism. They provide not only sites of production, consumer markets, labour pools, and house the government and financial institutions for its reproduction, but they are also emitters for capitalism’s more intangible  infrastructures and hegemonic knowledge regimes. In this paper, now published in Global Read more about Rottleb (2022) Gateway cities for transnational higher education? Doha, Dubai and Ras al‐Khaimah as regional amplifiers in networks of the ‘global knowledge‐based economy’[…]

Bobée and Kleibert (2022): Choose France! Containment, circulation and postcolonial (dis)continuities in transnational education

We contribute to a post-colonial analysis of transnational education, by empirically analysing the extent to which French offshore campuses in Africa constitute a break with or rather a continuation of (post)colonial higher education geographies and student mobilities. Showing how French offshore campuses do not simply enact French policies but increasingly adapt their strategies to competitive Read more about Bobée and Kleibert (2022): Choose France! Containment, circulation and postcolonial (dis)continuities in transnational education[…]

Policy Paper: Developing Successful Transnational Education Hubs

As governments across the globe seek to enhance the competitiveness of theircountries through advancing knowledge-intensive industries, the global demand for international higher education is growing. To satisfy this growing demand in the knowledge-based economy, some governments seek to position their countries (or particular cities) as an education hub, a centre for (higher) learning and knowledge Read more about Policy Paper: Developing Successful Transnational Education Hubs[…]

Rottleb & Kleibert (2022) Circulation and containment in the knowledge-based economy: Transnational education zones in Dubai and Qatar

Albeit many governments have switched their focus from industrialisation and export-led development to the evasive quest of the knowledge-based economy, special economic zones as a development tool are still a growing phenomenon. As the range of different types of zones is diversifying, Tim Rottleb and Jana Schulze interrogate a relatively new type of zone that Read more about Rottleb & Kleibert (2022) Circulation and containment in the knowledge-based economy: Transnational education zones in Dubai and Qatar[…]

Schulze & Kleibert (2021) Transnational education for regional economic development? Understanding Malaysia’s and Singapore’s strategic coupling in global higher education

Why can we observe inconsistencies in countries‘ international education hub projects? And why have we seen moments of de-coupling at international branch campuses in Malaysia and Singapore recently? In their new research article, Marc Schulze and Jana Kleibert present a new economic-geographic perspective that could contribute to the discussion of these issues. The paper explores Read more about Schulze & Kleibert (2021) Transnational education for regional economic development? Understanding Malaysia’s and Singapore’s strategic coupling in global higher education[…]

Kleibert, Rottleb, Schulze & Bobée (2021) Strategy First: Ten Questions to Answer before Starting an International Campus

Our IRS Dialog Policy Paper „Strategy First: Ten Questions to Answer before Starting an International Campus” discusses the most important risks for developing offshore campuses, based on our discussions with more than 100 senior higher education managers and transnational education stakeholders in Europe, Southeast Asia and the Middle East. These risks include a lack of Read more about Kleibert, Rottleb, Schulze & Bobée (2021) Strategy First: Ten Questions to Answer before Starting an International Campus[…]

Kleibert (2021) Transnational spaces of education as infrastructures of im/mobility

How are international student mobilities mediated by international branch campuses? Jana Kleibert’s new paper develops a conceptualization of offshore campuses as infrastructures of student mobilities and immobilties. A typology shows how offshore campuses differ in their roles: some offer an alternative to international study abroad and thus enable immobilities whereas others are highly dependent upon Read more about Kleibert (2021) Transnational spaces of education as infrastructures of im/mobility[…]

Kleibert & Schulze (2021) EduCity in Iskandar Malaysia: Eine transnationale Bildungszone als Megaprojekt

Jana Kleibert and Marc Schulze published a new paper in the Geographische Rundschau Special Issue “Mega projects in Asia”. The paper gives a glimpse of EduCity in the Johor-Singapore cross-border global city-region. Jana Kleibert & Marc Schulze (2021) EduCity in Iskandar Malaysia: Eine transnationale Bildungszone als Megaprojekt. Geographische Rundschau. https://www.westermann.de/anlage/4629098/EduCity-in-Iskandar-Malaysia-Eine-transnationale-Bildungszone-als-Megaprojekt