Internationalisation at the expense of employment practices? Rethinking duty of care in transnational higher education
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Recent decades have seen established, and often Western universities, investing in international campuses. Owing to legislative restrictions of the host country, these activities are commonly organised in conjunction with local partners, so that aside from the delivery of a parallel curriculum and branded degrees, the international campus is locally managed. The resulting divergent leadership approach, lack of expatriate adjustment support, underdeveloped infrastructure, and discrepant academic practices and culture, pose certain challenges for the expatriate academics imported in to ensure a corresponding degree thousands of miles away. The current paper critically considers the struggle of the academic expatriate to assimilate into an international campus glaringly discordant from its counterpart home campus, and questions what the responsibilities of the latter should arguably be for these expatriate academics, beyond the rubber stamping of student degree certificates.
Source: Teaching in Higher Education
Author: Nishat Babu
Institution: Loughborough University
Language: English
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4410977439