As part of a one month research stay at the Cosmopolis Centre for Urban Research at the Department of Geography of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Tim Rottleb presented the conceptual stage of a paper during a session of the Cosmopolis Lunch Seminar series on 31 March 2022. The working title of the paper is “Gateway Read more about Tim Rottleb presenting at Cosmopolis Lunch Seminar in Brussels[…]
On 24 March Marc Schulze and Tim Rottleb were invited to participate in a hybrid panel during the 5th MENA Higher Education Leadership Forum taking place online and in Dubai. The bi-annual forum brings together higher education leaders and decision makers from across the globe, and engages them in discussion on the latest trends, developments Read more about Marc Schulze and Tim Rottleb give a talk during the 5th MENA HELF Forum[…]
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[…]
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[…]
On 7 December 2021 we welcomed Prof Natalie Koch to another digital Erkner Encounter. Natalie is a political geographer and Associate Professor for Geography and the Environment at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. What ties her work to our own is her research that critically reflects on the export of Western Read more about Erkner Encounter #8: Prof Natalie Koch, Syracuse University[…]
The blog articles summarises new findings on how international branch campuses are affected by the pandemic: https://www.regionalstudies.org/news/blog-transnational-higher-education-and-the-covid-19-pandemic/
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[…]
Marc Schulze presented his latest articles at the ‘Digitale GeoWoche’, the online alternative of this year’s ‘Deutscher Kongress für Geographie’, where he discussed his research project with the ‘Arbeitskreis Bildungsgeographie’ (working group Geography of Education). The session ‘Gestaltung transnationaler Räume der Hochschulbildung’ on 06 October 2021 was organized by Prof Dr Holger Jahnke (Europe University Read more about Discussion on offshore campuses with AK Bildungsgeographie at Geowoche2021[…]
On Friday 20 August 2021, Tim Rottleb was invited to give a talk as a guest speaker at the conference ‘Bildung in der bürgerlichen Gesellschaft — Staat, Kapital und Bildungsidealismus’ in Regensburg, Germany. Targeting an audience at the interface of academia, activism and higher education politics, the conference dealt with the questions of what happens Read more about Guest talk on offshore campuses at conference on universities under capitalism and austerity[…]
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[…]