International

Global perspectives on international higher education, including mobility, partnerships, and cross-border collaboration.

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China

Choosing the “in-between” option: why students opt for international branch campuses in China

· By H. Yang

International branch campuses are often analysed as instruments of global higher education strategy. Less attention, however, has been paid to how students themselves arrive at the decision to enrol in them.

Forbidden City
China

China’s careful opening: how regulation is reshaping transnational higher education

· By H. Yang

China’s transnational higher education system has evolved from cautious experimentation to a strategically integrated part of its higher education landscape. While the country is gradually opening its education market—allowing more autonomy, for-profit models and even pilot fully foreign-owned institutions—it continues to enforce a tightly controlled regulatory framework. This reflects a deliberate balance: leveraging global education to support national development, while safeguarding educational sovereignty, political oversight and social values.

Globe on Desk

Internationalisation may offer a way through the crisis in global higher education

· By H. Yang

As COVID-19 halted student mobility, universities turned to internationalisation not as a strategy of expansion, but as a mechanism for survival—revealing both its untapped potential and its structural limits.