Alam, F., Alam, Q., Chowdhury, H., & Steiner, T. (2013). Transnational education: Benefits, threats and challenges. Procedia Engineering , 56 , 870–874.
Transnational education is becoming increasingly popular due to the fact that it provides internationally
recognized education to the doorsteps of students. The reduction of government subsidies to Western
universities has left countries in conditions looking for ways to generate income to offset the loss of income.
resulting from these Western higher educational institutions have become heavily dependent on onshore fee
paying international students but the income of those students is failing. This led to universities starting to offer
their education to international students in their home countries. This study reviews the current status of
transnational education focusing especially on Asia. It covers the economical and social impact, Modes of
transnational education and regional hubs. The current trend of internationalization will ultimately generate
mobility of students between developed and developing countries, and the creation of hubs will change the
demography of the student cohort. It is also believed that the location of these hubs will influence not only the
curriculum but the related facilities and infrastructure. however there has been no theoretical framework
developed to understand and systematically address the internationalization of higher education, and this
proposes a worry of the system changing the social fabric.
