Franchising, Validation, and Branch Campuses in the European Union

Abstract

The Bologna process aims at creating a European higher education area with more comparable, compatible, and coherent higher education systems in Europe.Indeed, students, staff, and research teams are increasingly mobile within that area. In addition, a growing number of institutions are offering their study programs across borders. The most common form of such cross-border provision of higher education (CBHE) are joint or double degrees. Branch campuses, franchising or validation arrangements are less frequent but have lately stirred controversy in European higher education. EUROPEAN LEGISLATION HAS CREATED A COMMON MARKETThe European common market guarantees that European citizens have their qualifications recognized in any EU member state in the same way they would be recognized in their own country. At the same time, it allows any European business to offer their services in any other EU member state. A holder of a Spanish diploma is therefore allowed to work in their profession in Germany or any

Faculty Role In Curriculum Delivery At An International Branch Campus

“…There are a few exceptions where IBCs in other areas have been studied. They include Bischof's (2014) discussion of European IBCs, Montoto's (2013) study of cross-border education in Panama including an IBC, and Mock's (2005) discussion of IBCs and American universities in Japan during the 1980s and 1990s. Overall,…”