1. S
HIGHER EDUCATION DAY
THE HIGHER EDUCATION LANDSCAPE
by Nina Adlan Disney
Renaissance Hotel, Kuala Lumpur
22 January 2014

2. HE Landscape: Three Focus Features
1.
The Global Education Industry
2.
What does ‘World Class’ mean?
3.
The TNE Top Ten

3. The Global Education Industry
In 2012, Education was a US$4.5 Trillion industry!
World’s 2nd biggest after Healthcare
(Note: corporate investment in healthcare is 16x that of education)
Three times bigger than Telcos, eight times bigger
than Advertising

4. Why is the Private Sector investing in Education?
INVESTMENT IN GLOBAL EDUCATION: A STRATEGIC IMPERATIVE FOR BUSINESS, Sept 2013
Brookings Institute and Accenture
New action is urgently needed to improve education
Poor-quality education is a strategic growth constraint for
business that impacts the bottom line – talent development and
retention
Return on investment in education, as well as the potential to
close a major value gap
Innovative new vehicles for business investment in social sectors
are emerging

5. Global Market Size
GSV Education Sector
Handbook, 2012
Market Size
2012
Market Size
2015
Market Size
2017
Global Education Spend
$4,450.9 B
$5,508.7 B
$6,372.5 B
K-12
$2,227.0 B
$2,625.6 B
$2,930.3 B
Postsecondary
$1,495.2 B
$1,883.5 B
$2,196.9 B
Corp & Govt. Learning
$356.6 B
$449.3 B
$524.0 B
eLearning
$90.9 B
$166.5 B
$255.5 B
K-12 eLearning
$16.6 B
$39.0 B
$69.0 B
Higher Ed eLearning
$48.8 B
$95.4 B
$149.0 B
Corporate eLearning
$25.5 B
$32.1 B
$37.5 B
For-Profit Postsecondary
$96.1 B
$146.1 B
$193.2 B
Social Learning/Communities
$1.0 B
$2.9 B
$5.6 B
Child Care
$200.0 B
$266.2 B
$322.1 B
Edu Gaming
$2.0 B
$4.4 B
$7.4 B
Global Language Learning
$115.0 B
$198.7 B
$286.2 B
Global English Language
$63.3 B
$123.6 B
$193.2 B
Test Preparation
$54.0 B
$78.2 B
$100.0 B
For-Profit
$590.9 B
$952.2
$1,311.0

6. ‘World Class’: Definitions and Dichotomies
Inputs and Outputs
Access and Excellence
Tradition and innovation

7. University rankings
What?
Why?
Prestige, Recognition, Benchmarking,
Political & Public Engagement …

8. Three factors distinguish top universities
1.Talent
Teachers, researchers and students
International faculty and student body (20-30%)
2. Big budgets and diversified sources of funding
Contract research from public organisations and private firms
Endowments, gifts and tuition fees
3. Freedom, autonomy and leadership
Competitive environment (meritocracy??)
Unrestrained scientific inquiry, critical thinking, innovation and
creativity
Limited bureaucracy or externally imposed standards
Agility and freedom to change

9. Transnational Education (TNE)
TNE takes off in the 1980s with…
Twinning
Transfer
1+2
2+1
3+0
Branch campuses
Joint/dual certification
Hubs/Networks
MOOCs - business
models, scale, sustainability, monetisation, accr
editation…?

10. Source: edudemic

11. TNE Top Ten
The Big Four…
Dubai, Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong

12. Plus Six....
Doha, Qatar: six US, one British, and one French university
offering courses and degree programmes in Education City
Manama, Bahrain: newest of the FIVE ‘eduhubs’ in the Middle East
Jeju, South Korea: began to build integrated eduhub in 2009 to
provide alternative English education from primary to university
Fort Clayton, Panama: US ex-military buildings to provide socioeconomic uplift, combining tech and business with US university
links
Colombo, Sri Lanka: MoHE targeting an eduhub from 2015 as part
of national development plans. Serious obstacles still to be
overcome …
Bangalore, India: already a de facto hub with IT/Tech research plus
HE institutions, but still difficult for foreign campuses

13. Conclusions
1. The Global Education Industry
World’s biggest industry- private sector will exert a growing influence
2. What does ‘World Class’ mean?
Difficulties with definitions- although there may be shared consensus
re factors that distinguish top universities
3. The TNE Top Ten
Malaysia leading TNE pioneer- cannot afford to remain complacent
in the face of increasingly competitive global environment

14. THANK YOU!
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