ABSTRACT
Over the last two decades, there has been a remarkable shift in the orientation and structure of higher education across the world. A rapid growth in the extent of cross-border student mobility, the establishment of new institutional forms and networks, and an emphasis on constructing, measuring, and maintaining reputation on a global stage. Often heralded under the banner of internationalisation and the promise of globalisation, these transformations operate through an imaginative apparatus that valorises knowledge and its symbolic markers as key vectors in the transformation of society and economy. Scholars of higher education, whether from the discipline of education itself or cognate social sciences, have traced these transformations in a now rapidly growing body of scholarship that sees transnational higher education (TNE) as a movement into new frontiers or knowledge production and learning.
