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Cross-Border Higher Education: Engaging East Asian Cities

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University-Community Engagement in the Asia Pacific

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Higher education crossing national jurisdictional borders is not a new phenomenon. However, it has been rapidly developed in Asia in the last few decades. Notably, the heart of cross-border mobility is from and into East Asian cities and it concerns the ongoing public and academic debate on the presence and significance of various forms of international higher education provision in these cities. This chapter examines cross-border higher education (CBHE) in the forms of international education hubs and/or branch campuses to discuss the engagement and capabilities of these in promoting CBHE in this region. It reviews the literature of the hubs and campuses, the global and national rationales in relation to these, and the policy implications and their impacts on capacity building and preferred graduate attributes. It concludes with some remarks on the urge of addressing the gap in the literature of CBHE, mutual relationship between CBHE and urban workforce development, and the importance of further research on CBHE graduate outcomes from employers’ perspectives in East Asia. Mobility and workforce development help define community engagement with a broad, regional perspective.

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  1. School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, Asia Graduate Center, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

    Anh Pham

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    Christopher S. Collins

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Pham, A. (2017). Cross-Border Higher Education: Engaging East Asian Cities. In: Collins, C. (eds) University-Community Engagement in the Asia Pacific. International and Development Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45222-7_3

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