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Transnational Education (TNE) is an area of significant and growing interest to the UK education sector. The range and number of TNE activities, such as remote campuses or joint degree programmes, continues to grow rapidly, with expected continued growth in the coming years. TNE is also rising up the political agenda owing to its potential as a high earning export industry; ‘Supporting Transnational Education’ is one of the key policy strands in the UK Government’s ‘International Education Strategy’.

Historically Janet’s offerings have been delivered almost exclusively within the UK. However in response to the growing demand from the community, we have made a strategic decision improve the support we offer for your developing TNE activities. Through our TNE strategy and support programme we seek to address your requirement for cost-effective, appropriate and reliable connectivity services overseas, integrated with our UK-based operations and Janet’s other services, to support TNE delivery on a global basis.

This group is for any person or organisation interested in our developing transnational education programme of activities; this community site will be a valuable source of information to us to understand your requirements as we develop our overseas support over the coming months. We also aim for this to be a valuable source of information for informing your own TNE activities.

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Read how Jisc, working in partnership with ORIENTplus, GÉANT and the Chinese National Research and Education Network (CERNET) sucessfully resolved technological challenges for Queen Mary University of London's TNE partnership with the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, resulting in a better quality and reliable service for students.

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In January 2015, Jisc published a report 'An early-warning system for TNE - Understanding the future global network connectivity
and service needs of UK higher education' which was led by the Observatory on Borderless Higher Education during 2014. We are pleased to be able to publish the summary version of the Report, and hope that this will be a useful observation both for International and IT Offices; Jisc will be taking forward the recommendations in the report as a priority in 2015. 

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BBC Article today (16 December 2014) on universities 'soft power' i.e. overseas activities and the benefits to UK Plc that fits well with TNE activities.

"Universities are now a "crucial" part of the UK's "soft power" in projecting international influence, says former foreign secretary William Hague. Their recruitment of overseas students "enriches and strengthens our universities and our future economy and our influence in the world", he said….

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-30417131

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Janet and Heriot Watt have been working in close collaboration to connect their Malaysian campus, just outside Kuala Lumpar, ready for their first intake of students in September 2014. This has been sucessfully achieved in the last few weeks utilising Telecom Malaysia, who Janet have also established good working and contractual relationships with for the benefit of the sector.

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