A STUDY ON INTERNAL QUALITY ASSURANCE FRAMEWORK IN TRANSNATIONAL EDUCATION

Transnational education (TNE) is the movement of academic programs and higher education institutions (HEIs) across national borders, which involves the mobility of teaching staff, teaching materials and quality assurance, etc. From the TNE host institutions' perspectives, external quality assurance system which is at the government level is not enough to maintain a high quality. This paper aims at proposing an internal quality assurance framework in TNE from the standpoint of host institutions. It adopts the literature comparative research method and conducts a case analysis of a Chinese-Finnish TNE program to explore how quality is assured in such aspects as administrative organization, information opening, curriculum review mechanism, teaching and learning quality evaluation, learning support system construction, integration of sending institutions and host institutions, etc. It provides a useful reference to both the partner institutions on how to initiate quality assurance within TNE institutions and programs.