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Assessing participation in cross‐border higher education in cities: Foreign education provision in H o C hi M inh C ity
Author(s) -
Ziguras Christopher,
Pham Anh Thi Ngoc
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
asia pacific viewpoint
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.571
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 1467-8373
pISSN - 1360-7456
DOI - 10.1111/apv.12051
Subject(s) - ho chi minh , inequality , economic growth , higher education , nationalism , political science , east asia , sociology , socioeconomics , china , economics , politics , law , mathematical analysis , mathematics , low income
One of the limitations of research on global educational mobility has been the primary classification of key participants – students and educational institutions – in national terms. This paper tests the challenges involved in such methodological nationalism by examining the provision of cross‐border education in one city. As V ietnam's commercial centre, H o C hi M inh C ity ( HCMC ) has experienced rapid transformation over the past two decades as the country has moved steadily from a state‐directed to a more market‐driven and globally integrated economy. Since the late 1990s there has been a parallel growth in cross‐border higher education in HCMC , through the outbound mobility of students and the provision of foreign programmes by international partnerships and branch campuses. Drawing on available data supplemented with insights gleaned from interviews and existing literature, this paper develops a methodology for identifying and quantifying the key features of each form of domestic, overseas and transnational provision. We estimate that around 6% of HCMC 's tertiary students are studying overseas and between 2% and 3% in foreign programmes delivered in the city. The rates of enrolment in overseas and transnational programmes by students in HCMC are thus far higher than for V ietnam as a whole, but still considerably lower than in those well‐established cross‐border education hubs, H ong K ong and S ingapore. We argue that concerns about the growth of private education and inequalities in access may continue to limit the growth of transnational provision in HCMC .