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"The book chronicles the history of the collaborative partnership between MIT and the Singapore Ministry of Education to create the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), the country's fourth public university. Fisher describes how MIT faculty communicated the practices and identity of the Institute as they developed and executed the vision for SUTD, and how local actors at the university reframed, modified, and adapted these practices to fit the local political, cultural, and economic context in Singapore. Fisher focuses on the early years of SUTD's development. She looks at the Singaporean government's intentions in founding a fourth university, and how prior research partnerships with MIT provided the confidence on both sides required to design an innovative curricular structure for SUTD. Using the techniques of ethnography, Fisher investigates the personal and professional incentives for MIT professors to invest their time and expertise in the project, how the early SUTD administration managed to market the fledgling institution to Singaporean students while dealing with temporary campus facilities, and how the first cohorts of students negotiated the unfamiliar pedagogy and curricular structures designed by MIT"--

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In the past decade, many countries have designed explicit internationalisation policies for their higher education systems, acknowledging the benefits of international exposure to prepare students for a globalising economy as well as the many opportunities of cross-border mobility for innovation, improvement and capacity development in higher education and in the economy. Cases of fraud and opportunistic behaviour have shown that these promises come with risks for students and other tertiary education stakeholders though. It is precisely to help all stakeholders to minimise these risks and strengthen the dynamics of openness, collaboration and transparency across countries that UNESCO and OECD jointly developed the Guidelines for Quality Provision in Cross-Border Higher Education. This book monitors the extent to which tertiary education stakeholders complied with the Guidelines in 2014. It will be of interest to policy makers, leaders of tertiary education institutions and quality assurance agencies, as well as to academics and other parties interested in higher education and its internationalisation.

Transnational education --- Foreign study --- Student mobility --- Education and globalization --- Education, Higher --- Education, Special Topics --- Education --- Social Sciences --- College students --- Higher education --- Globalization and education --- Academic mobility --- Mobility, Student --- International study --- Study abroad --- Studying abroad --- Offshore higher education --- TNE (Education) --- Transnational higher education --- Postsecondary education --- Universities and colleges --- Globalization --- Migration, Internal --- Transfer students --- Students, Foreign --- Transnational education. --- Student mobility. --- Foreign study. --- Education, Higher. --- Education and globalization.