Dr Jonathan Burrow1
1Flinders Univeristy, , Australia
“If one of my students shows up on campus something has gone seriously wrong.” Each year thousands of student’s complete Australian university degrees and VET courses in Asia without ever setting foot in Australia. Legal and practical necessities mean that these students are supported through partnerships between Australian institutions and local commercial or public partner institutions. While there is an established body of literature and professional knowledge on how to support students studying at a single institution both on campus and online there is little to address the sustained growth of joint transnational degree program taught in Asia as a partnership between an Asian host institution and an Australian/European/American partner institution. This paper will present a road map on how we research and theory from border and mobility studies can be entwined with work on international trade and service industries based on the authors mixed academic and professional background.
Biography
Jonathan completed his PhD in Human Geography at the University of Oulu in 2017. His research focuses on the interplay between the politics of families, capital, and the state through the lens of the intergenerational encounter. Currently based in Adelaide working as a professional in the transnational education sector.