Nigel Martin Healey

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• BA (Hons), MA, MBA, DBA, PhD
• Doctoral Supervisor at University of Bath

This paper explores the concept of the university remote metropolitan branch campus (RMBC). Drawing on approaches used to frame international branch campuses, it proposes a first definition for an RMBC, distinguishing it from a wider group of domestic ‘Satellite Campuses’ that includes multi-campus universities within regions. Using interviews with...

Post-pandemic, there is a growing recognition that higher education needs to take a more proactive role in addressing the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals-the 17 goals for 2030 that aim to balance global economic development with the need to tackle climate change and protect our natural ecosystems. This change of focus has profound imp...

This research aims to understand the value of transnational education (TNE) partnerships to a range of higher education stakeholders in the UK and partner countries. These include policymakers, sector agencies and higher education institutions. Specifically, the research addresses the following questions: • What does the evidence tell us about the...

Establishing a national university has been widely viewed by smaller developing countries as a means of asserting national sovereignty and driving the country’s economic, social, and cultural development. This has been particularly true in the South Pacific, despite the existence of the regional University of the South Pacific. Building a national...

There is currently renewed interest in transnational education (TNE) amongst UK universities as a means of taking education to the 98% of tertiary students worldwide who are geographically immobile. In this discourse, the home universities are characterised as the dominant players, seeking strategic opportunities to commercially expand into foreign...

The growth of transnational education has been a major focus of attention for the UK sector since 2010. During a period when international student recruitment has stagnated, transnational education (TNE) has been widely seen as an alternative way of diversifying revenue and building international profile for universities. The UK presently dominates...

The thesis is organised into four themes. Theme I (three papers) is a critical assessment of the transnational education (TNE) sector, challenging the general consensus in the literature that the internationalisation of higher education is inevitable and inexorable and driven primarily by commercial considerations. It analyses the underlying driver...

The growth in the number of international branch campuses (IBCs) has been one of the most striking developments in the internationalization of higher education in recent years. IBCs are overwhelmingly branches of universities in the developed ‘West’. The United States, the United Kingdom and Australia dominate provision. In contrast, IBCs are conce...

For many universities around the world, internationalization means the recruitment of fee-paying international students (so-called export education) for primarily commercial reasons. For many UK and Australian universities, the global market leaders in export education, international students account for over 25% of their annual revenues, making th...

Purpose This paper investigates the challenges of managing transnational education (TNE) partnerships from the perspective of the home university managers. Design/methodology/approach The study adopts a qualitative, ‘insider researcher’ methodology’. It uses a sample set of eight mangers who operate from the home university and 13 ‘in-country’ m...

Transnational education involves a university offering educational services to foreign students in their own country. The education may be provided virtually, online or by conventional distance-learning. More often, the university works with a foreign partner, which provides the physical facilities and staff to deliver its curriculum to local stude...

For many universities around the world, internationalisation means the recruitment of fee-paying international students (so-called “export education”) for primarily commercial reasons. For UK universities, international (non-European Union) students account for approximately 13% of their annual revenues, making them highly dependent on internationa...

This case study reflects on the lessons learned during a 15 month ‘insider research’ project on the management of international branch campuses. The research project was a qualitative investigation into the ‘lived experience’ of senior managers running international branch campuses of UK universities. The UK universities presently operating interna...

Over the last decade, the growth of the international branch campus (IBC) has been one of the most striking developments in the internationalisation of higher education. There are now over 200 IBCs across the world, mostly in the Middle East and East and South-east Asia. Despite the growing numbers of IBCs and the considerable financial and reputat...

In recent years, an increasing number of major universities have set up international branch campuses (IBCs). There are now over 200 IBCs, with more under development. Little is known about the unique challenges that face IBC managers, who are normally seconded from the home university to set up and operate the satellite campus in a new and alien e...

Given the growing numbers of UK universities operating or developing IBCs, this thesis makes a contribution to the higher education management literature, by revealing the organisational complexity of IBCs and the difficulties that IBC managers face in balancing the competing demands of their home university with other, often more powerful stakehol...

The well-documented growth of international student mobility has been paralleled by the emergence of so-called ‘transnational education’ (TNE), in which universities deliver their educational services to foreign students in their own countries, rather than the students travelling to the foreign university to study. While universities have engaged i...

Transnational education (TNE) has been a growth area for UK universities over the last decade. The standard typology classifies TNE by the nature of the activity (i.e., distance learning, international branch campus, franchise, and validation). By analysing a large number of TNE partnerships around the world, this study reveals that the current typ...

p>There are an estimated 200 international branch campuses around the world. As these campuses evolve in response to the changing regulatory and competitive environment, trying to get a clear-cut definition of an international branch campus is becoming increasingly difficult. Instead of asking ‘what is a branch campus?’ it is more interesting to co...

Transnational, or cross-border, education is attracting increasing interest, as universities extend their reach across borders to open up huge new markets. Based on analysis of case students of transnational partnerships, this paper argues that the current definition of transnational education, namely that the degree-awarding university is in a dif...

The well-documented growth of international student mobility has been paralleled by the emergence of so-called ‘transnational education’ (TNE), in which universities deliver their educational services to foreign students in their own countries, rather than the students travelling to the foreign university to study. While universities have engaged i...

The Higher Education Academy has developed a strategic framework for internationalising higher education (including transnational education). The framework is designed as an enhancement tool to inspire and assist in enhancing HE policy and practice, recognising internationalisation as a process rather than an end in itself. This Good Practice Guide...

Transnational, or cross-border, education is attracting increasing interest, as universities extend their reach across borders to open up huge new markets. Based on analysis of case students of transnational partnerships, this paper argues that the current definition of transnational education, namely that the degree-awarding university is in a dif...

Franchising degrees to overseas providers, normally for-profit private companies, has become big business for English universities. The latest data from the Higher Education Statistics Agency reveal that there are now more international students registered for the awards of English higher education institutions that are studying wholly offshore tha...

This volume is the direct result of the establishment of the Educational Research Institutes Network in the Asia-Pacific (ERI-Net). In late 2009, the UNESCO Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education (UNESCO Bangkok) established a network of educational research institutes to encourage and facilitate regional cooperation in carrying out analyti...

New Zealand has a long tradition of accessible, affordable public higher education.

In September 2010 and again in February 2011, the city of Christchurch was rocked by earthquakes of magnitude 7.1 and 6.3 respectively. The second earthquake was shallow and caused extensive damage and loss of life, destroying most of the Central Business District. This paper focuses on recovery management at the University of Canterbury, exploring...

This volume is a post-conference publication containing the refereed papers and abstracts of all presentations at the QS-APPLE Conference held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 24th-26th November, 2009. There is some variation in referencing styles since the conference draws from academics who work in all discipline areas across tertiary institutions....

It is a widely accepted maxim that, like business generally, higher education is globalising. For many countries, higher education is now an important export sector, with university campuses attracting international students from around the world. Licensing production, in the form of franchising degree provision to international partners, is beginn...

New Zealand, a country with a land mass almost exactly the same size as the UK on the other side of the world, was colonised by British settlers in the mid-nineteenth century. It maintained closer political ties to the motherland than Australia and Canada, only becoming a fully independent state in 1947. For most of the postwar period, economic pol...

Economists spent the 1990s debating the theoretical costs and benefits for individual EU member states of participating in economic and monetary union (EMU). Five years on from the start of Stage Three in 1999, it is clearly too early to draw definitive conclusions about the impact of EMU on the ultimate policy objectives of trade, investment and G...

Among the main reasons for the emergence of central banks in Europe were the wars that ravaged the continent from the 17th century onwards and the consequent pressure this exerted on government finance. In brief, governments granted monopoly power over the note issue to a commercial bank and in return were given privileged borrowing facilities. Thi...

The independence of central banks has become a focus of debate among contemporary policy-makers. The importance of this issue has been strengthened by the Maastricht Treaty which requires the European Monetary Union states to comply with the legislation of the European Central Bank, which is widely acknowledged to be a highly independent central ba...

In a recent article on conducting international marketing research in the twenty-first century (Craig & Douglas 2001), the application of new (electronic) technology for data collection was encouraged. Email and web-based data collection methods are attractive to researchers in international marketing because of low costs and fast response rates. Y...

In a recent article on conducting international marketing research in the 21st century (Craig and Douglas 2001) the application of new (electronic) technology for data collection was encouraged. Email and web-based data collection methods are attractive to researchers particularly in international marketing, because of low costs and fast response r...

This paper provides an attempt to quantify the Central Bank Independence (CBI) incorporating legislative and behavioural approach. A set of indices designed to capture some special features of actual independence of central banks in transition economies is then developed. Major trends in the independence of the central banks in transition economies...

Social problems in Russia are growing increasingly serious and threaten the process of economic transition. Privatisation and enterprise restructuring have contributed to growing unemployment and poverty and disrupted traditional mechanisms for the delivery of social services to the population. The social welfare system, designed to deliver non-wag...

Nigel M Healey* Janet Ilieva** The increasing independence of central banks from governments in a greater number of states is the central preoccupation of this study by Nigel M. Healey and Janet Ilievafrom Manchester Metropolitan University. The writers point out the fact that this trend can be observed both in industrialized and in developing coun...

This paper looks at the design of the new monetary institutions in the transition economies, which are already closely modelled on the European Central Bank. The institutional reforms adopted by the twenty transition countries covered by this study has increased the independence of their central banks. The issue of central bank independence is appr...

In 1988, inspired by early progress in ‘completing the single market’ under the 1992 programme, the European Union (EU) charged the then President of the European Commission, Jacques Delors, with preparing a blueprint for full economic and monetary union (EMU). By 1991, the Treaty on European Union, commonly known as the ‘Maastricht Treaty’, had be...

On January 1, 1999, the monetary unification of eleven of the European Union's fifteen member states took place. Three years later, on January 1, 2002, a monetary conversion will begin, with a new single currency, the euro, replacing the national currencies of the participating member states as legal tender over a six month period. The realisation...

One British and two Russian social scientists examine the causes and consequences of the transfer of responsibility for funding of social services from enterprises to municipalities in Russia. The study is part of a larger project, funded by the European Union, on the social impact of economic reform in Russia. The primary sources of data are offic...

This paper explores the phenomenon of barter exchanges, which have become widespread in the United States and provide small retailers and service companies with a means of trading goods or services directly with each other. Using a case study approach in the United States, the papers examines the mechanics of barter exchanges and the advantages and...

The privatisation of state enterprises is a central component of the economic transition process. In Russia, privatisation has been accompanied by the large-scale divestiture of ‘social assets’. Prior to 1991, state enterprises provided significant benefits-in-kind to their employers and their families, owning housing, kindergartens, sports centres...

The purpose of this TACIS report is to present to the main project beneficiary (the Ministry of Economy) recommendations formulated by the Project’s Russian and EU experts to ease the social impact of economic restructuring and privatization in Russia. The project recommendations have been elaborated after a thorough analysis, by the project’s exp...

In Russia, privatisation has been accompanied by the large-scale divestiture of ‘social assets’. Prior to 1991, state enterprises provided significant benefits-in-kind to their employers and their families, owning housing, kindergartens, sports centres, hospitals and polyclinics, etc. In most cases following privatisation, the assets have been tran...

The ‘barter’ of goods (or services) for goods (or services) between companies, either on a bilateral basis or (more usually) via the intermediation of a broker, has been growing rapidly in recent years. In the United States, barter transactions between US companies amounted to an estimated $9bn in 1995. While historically a US phenomenon, the pract...

Between 1945 and the mid-1970s, the ideas of John Maynard Keynes represented the prevailing orthodoxy in economic theory. Keynes argued that, at a macroeconomic level, the operation of the ‘invisible hand’ alone was unlikely to result in the economy reaching and settling at ‘full employment’. Price and wage stickiness, informational asymmetries and...

Over the decades countries in general and the UK in particular have become concerned about their relative growth rates. From a UK perspective the problem has been one of explaining why the UK growth rate has lagged behind its major competitors. Growth is seen as bringing many of the benefits required by society, in the form of improvements in real...

Chapter 5 showed that changes in the quantity and the quality of the labour force both have an important impact on economic growth. This chapter explores the role of the labour market, and the part played by the trade union movement, in promoting economic growth and structural change and reviews the recent policies that have been used in this area.

Ascertaining the factors that are specifically related to the poor growth record of the UK are difficult; none the less, the problems being faced by the British economy can be clearly seen in Table 5.1. Britain’s growth rate has been lagging behind that of its major competitors for well over a century. Economic theory in general provides important...

Like many other developed economies over the last 30 years the UK’s industrial structure has altered from a predominantly manufacturing economy towards a more service-orientated one. Unlike other developed nations, however, which possessed relatively high levels of agricultural employment the UK compensated for the growth in service sector employme...

A high level of growth has been one of the goals of successive governments throughout the last century, but in a world where population growth is still very high, particularly in the less developed countries, and where developed nations are not the most efficient users of finite resources, then the ‘going for growth’ campaign is now subject to a nu...

Whilst Chapter 2 described the main structural changes in the UK economy over the past 30 years this is certainly not the first time that the UK has been subject to changes of this type. The industrial revolution saw the decline in the agricultural sector and the subsequent growth in the secondary sector. The more recent process of deindustrialisat...

As noted in Chapter 5, investment in new products and processes (research and development) and in capital equipment is an essential prerequisite for sustained economic growth. This chapter examines Britain’s record with regard to expenditure on research and development (R&D) and physical capital. It then explores the economic theory of investment i...

In the 1970s, the Keynesian theoretical orthodoxy came under increasing attack from the ‘New Classical’ school. The dissenters, led by the Chicago economist Milton Friedman, were initially dubbed ‘monetarists’, due to their insistence that the basic cause of inflation was excessively rapid growth of the money supply. But as the intellectual debate...

Even before Britain’s membership of the Community, its trade with the European Union (EU) was becoming increasingly important and was growing faster than its trade with the Commonwealth. Prior to its entry, the UK government placed great emphasis on the dynamic effects of EU membership. Producers, governments argued, would have a much larger ‘home’...

Britain's Economic Growth Record - Growth and Structural Change in the British Economy - Does Industrialisation Matter? - Does Slow Growth Matter? - The Determinants of Economic Growth - From Indicative Planning to Supply-side Economics - Research and Development - Capital Investment - Investing in People: Training and Education - Growth Policies f...

The Treaty on European Union signed at Maastricht in December 1991 committed the European Union (EU) to establishing a single currency. Despite the subsequent tensions within the European Monetary System (EMS), which culminated in the withdrawal of sterling and the Italian lira, the imposition of emergency capital controls in several countries and...

Concentrates attention on the implications of events in Eastern Europe for the private sector rather than the popular debates on the macroeconomics and politics of the situation which are important for private business only in so far as they shape the commercial environment in these economies. The real questions facing business are: what are the op...

There are essentially two types of barter company, the barter exchange and the corporate trader, although there is a small but growing band of hybrids. Corporate traders make their profits in one of two ways. First, they may be able to sell (or barter) the inventory acquired for a higher value than they paid for it (in trade credits). Second, the t...

From 1945 to early 1989, Eastern Europe was a commercial “black hole” for Western businesses. The region's centrally-planned economies and stateowned businesses kept Western investors at bay. As the economies of Eastern Europe make the transition to capitalism, major new markets are opening with attractive long-term growth prospects for the West. B...

The work explores the changing nature of the international debt crisis, from a banking crisis to a development crisis. The author begins with an overview of the changing debt position of the developing world. The reasons why developing countries become indebted and the causes of the post-1982 crisis are then considered. Finally, events since 1982 a...

Longtemps, les cours d'economie ont tenu une place centrale dans l'enseignement commercial et managerial. Toutefois, les etudiants de ces filieres ne reconnaissent qu'un interet limite aux enseignements d'economie, qu'ils jugent abstraits, theoriques et sans rapport avec le monde des entreprises. L'A. ouvre, alors, le debat sur le role de l'economi...

This article examines the role of central banks in the formulation and execution of monetary policy, highlighting the potential conflict between the objectives of elected governments and that of price stability. It then considers the implications of an independent European Central Bank for the operation of national fiscal policy and examines the ca...

Incluye índice Incluye bibliografía Se presentan herramientas analíticas para la comprensión del ambiente económico global dentro del que los ejecutivos contemporáneos operan, enfatizando las determinantes básicas de los aspectos de abasto y demanda de la economía, ciclos en los negocios, inflación, desempleo, políticas fiscales y monetarias, tipos...

This paper reviews the main features of the supply-side policies pursued by the Thatcher Government in Britain between 1979 and 1990. It examines the performance of the real economy relative to historical and international trends and discusses the characteristics of a successful supply-side program. It concludes that, while the Thatcher era has yie...

Monetarism has been an essential ingredient of the Thatcher decade. Has it been a successful guide to monetary policy? Nigel Healey, of Leicester University, describes the development of monetarism in Britain in the 1980s and reviews its successes and failures.

In 1982, Mexico unilaterally announced that it could no longer meet the interest and capital repayments due on its $80bn overseas bank debt. Within months, dozens of other LDCs followed suit. So was born the "international debt crisis', this article examines the present state of play in the international debt crisis. It opens by outlining the backg...