ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on ‘educational export’, a phenomenon where governments promote edu-businesses to go abroad to make ‘business’ and as such expand what could be considered as an educational Agora – not only domestically, but also internationally. It suggests an alternative view of the phenomenon, namely the relationship and structure of the actors, for instance, ‘educational colonialism’, by applying the perspectives of comparative education. The chapter highlights aspects of the educational Agora of Liberia and Ghana, with a special focus on these countries as importers, and with the UK and US as exporters of education. Education export is a rather common phenomenon in the field of tertiary education, including both higher and further education, and is mostly referred to as an example of ‘internationalisation’. The Economic Development Board of Singapore regards education as one of its most competitive trade goods.
