Defintions and Estimates of the Size and Shape of UK Transnational Education

A paper presented at the Special Interest Group in Transnational Education Conference London 6-7 February 2014.

In contrast to conventional export education in which students travel to study at a university in a foreign country transnational higher education (TNE) essentially involves students remaining in their home country while studying at a foreign university. This form of higher education involves a myriad of delivery from distance-learning through franchising to a partner institution in the host country to an international branch campus.