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In this volume we have insight into the present state of transnational higher education (TNHE) from a wider perspective than much of the existing literature based in the Anglophone major players, with contributors in a range of countries in three continents: Europe, Asia and North America. Here we focus on Asian contexts in particular, which provide so many of the world’s international students and are receiving more and more on their home soil. The worldwide movement of students across borders has given rise to a large body of research on teaching and receiving international students. TNHE has become increasingly significant both worldwide and for UK higher education institutions (HEIs). At the same time the significance and impact of TNHE varies with the history, geography, politics and culture of a national system of HE. The regional, national and international political agenda can also influence attitudes towards these factors in dealing with international students at institutional or at classroom level. Educationalists may find themselves in the grip of geopolitical factors over which they have little influence but which nevertheless have a significant impact on the environment for TNHE (Coverdale-Jones, 2012; Zheng, Chapter 2, this volume).
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Coverdale-Jones, T. (2013). Introduction: The Widening Context of Transnational Higher Education. In: Coverdale-Jones, T. (eds) Transnational Higher Education in the Asian Context. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137034946_1
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