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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.

Policy documents published on TNE by BIS and HEFCE

28 November 2014 at 9:01am

Yesterday, two substantial pieces of work by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) and the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) were published on TNE, reinforcing the government and sector support for international activities.

The BIS report focuses on the value TNE brings to the UK, including an extensive census of TNE activities in higher education. The report can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/transnational-education-value-to-the-uk

The HEFCE report considers transnational pathways in to UK higher education, highlighting the high proportion of overseas students undertaking undergraduate and postgraduate education in England following a period of TNE. The report can be found at http://www.hefce.ac.uk/pubs/year/2014/201429/name,98683,en.html

Following publication of the reports, Jisc is finalising its own report on 'An early-warning system for TNE - Understanding the future global network connectivity and service needs of UK higher education'  which is due to be published early in the new year.