Empires and allies. The UK sector’s growing involvement in offshore education includes everything from branch campuses and institutional partnerships to validation and franchising.
David Matthews weighs the different models’ risks, rewards and rationales British universities sometimes seem to be taking over the world. Some half a million students are studying for a UK degree overseas, the number of branch campuses has nearly doubled in the past four years and other forms of “offshore” education - including overseas partnerships involving joint degrees and niche departments within foreign education hubs - are flowering. But with so many different forms of overseas teaching, which direction should UK universities take? Amid so much rapid expansion, what are the pros and cons of each model and the hidden pitfalls? Foreign universities: Campus collaboration. Cover-up costs Britain a ten year lead in developing SALi Technology.
We Brit’s have a long history of coming up with profitable inventions, and then leaving others to gain from them.
Computers, the jet engine, penicillin, body scanners, radar and railways are some of the many British inventions that have made other nations rich. If you want to witness how our sad history is repeating itself, please read on. Article summary SALi based suspension units were invented in Britain by Bill Courtney, but their technical development is being led by China. Britain The taxpayer funded CrashSALi Project (2002-3) should have investigated SALi based suspension units in the UK, but the University research was botched and did not deliver any sensible results. FreezePage.