1. Tertiary Education in the Context of Globalization
Tertiary Education in the Context of Globalization. Translating vision into reality, the case of Mauritius. By Dr Nittin Essoo Director Rushmore Business School Mauritius

2. Presentation outline
The Mauritian tertiary education landscape
Rushmore Business School
• The vision for Mauritius
• Global and regional trends in student mobility
Mauritius as a knowledge hub
• Conclusion

3. Tertiary Education Landscape in Mauritius
• Public and private providers
• National Qualifications Framework
• Regulation and quality assurance
Tertiary Education Commission
Mauritius Qualifications Authority
• Degree Awarding Powers
• Collaborative partnerships and presence of
overseas institutions
• Knowledge hub - provision for foreign students

4. RUSHMORE BUSINESS SCHOOL
Overview
Private Higher Education Institution founded in 2002 providing academic and professional courses to school leavers, graduates and the business community.
All courses are accredited by the Tertiary Education Commission/Mauritius qualifications Authority (MQA) and British Accreditation Council UK (first in Africa)
Collaborative provision with British Universities, a French Ecole de Commerce and a number of awarding institutions

5. RUSHMORE BUSINESS SCHOOL
Aim & Mission
To be one of the leading institutions of higher education within the Indian Ocean Rim region.
•To transfer solutions to management
problems through our students, research and
consultancy.

6. Courses Business Courses Hospitality and Tourism Engineering
Architecture
Built Environment – quantity surveying, construction management
Health and Social Sciences
Programmes range from Level 4 certificates to PhD.

7. RUSHMORE BUSINESS SCHOOL
Academic Partners

8. RUSHMORE BUSINESS SCHOOL
Business Model
• All degrees awarded by British or French partner
institutions.
• Franchise agreement or fly-in faculty from partner institutions.
• All courses are accredited by local regulator.
• Some 50 academic staff (FT and PT), 15 administrative staff.
• Study abroad semester or academic year for European students.
10% foreign students
• Academic output: some 600 graduates to date

9. Rushmore Campus

10. Translating vision into reality

11. THE VISION Internationalization Increase access for local
Knowledge Hub
Increase access for local
residents

12. Internationalisation
The Vision
Internationalisation
Knowledge Hub

13. Global Demand for International Education
Out of 152 million students worldwide in 2007, 2.8 million were international students, representing around 4% of the total student population worldwide
• Demand for international higher education is set to increase from 1.8 million international students in 2000 to 7.2 million students in 2025
• Asia will represent some 70% of total global demand, of which China and India will be the key growth drivers, representing over half of global demand and Africa will play a major role.
• Australia’s share of global demand is set to increase from 3% to 8% with a total forecasted number of around one million students
• Offshore programmes in Australia will account for 44% of this total demand
• Asia will continue to dominate the global demand for Australian higher education reaching 92% in 2025

14. • China: 421,100 • India: 153,300 • Republic of Korea: 105,300
Supply Countries (2007)
• China: ,100
• India: ,300
• Republic of Korea: ,300
• Germany: ,500
• Japan: ,500
• France: ,000
• Malaysia: ,500
• Russia: ,900
These countries account for 37.5% of world’s mobile students.
The whole of SADC countries in Africa accounted for 89,000
of mobile students in 2009.

15. Regional Profiles in Student Mobility
Sub-Saharan Africa: about 5.8% of all tertiary education students study
Abroad
• Central Asia: 5% of world’s mobile students
• Arab States: 7% of world’s mobile students
• East Asia and the Pacific: 29% of world’s mobile students, of which, China account for 15%
• South and West Asia: 9% of world’s mobile students, of which, India is 5.5%
• Central and Eastern Europe: 11% of world’s mobile students
• Latin America and the Caribbean: 6% of world’s mobile students
• North America and Western Europe: 18% of world’s mobile students
• Others: around 10% of world’s mobile students

16. Africa
Yet, Sub-Saharan Africa is the region that faces the greatest challenges in the provision of higher education
An average annual growth rate of 8.4% compared to 4.3% for the world as a whole.
Currently, over 4.8 million students are enrolled in higher education institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa.
At the current rate of expansion, it is projected that by 2015 Africa will have twice as many tertiary students as in 2006 i.e. about 18.6 million enrolments in 2015 (World Bank, 2010).

17. Africa Students from the SADC region are the most mobile in the world.
But they tend to stay close to home.
In 2009, over 1.5 million SADC students were enrolled in higher education institutions, of that 89,000 studied abroad, which represents almost 6% of tertiary enrolment, compared to 2% worldwide.
Almost half of them (48%) went to South Africa.
South Africa hosted 61,000 foreign students (known as internationally mobile students), two-thirds of which came from other SADC countries.
69% of internationally mobile students from other parts of sub-Saharan Africa opted to study in Europe or North America

18. Africa

19. Explosive growth in SSA 5.0 ISCED 56 Enrolment (million) 4.5 4.0 3.5
3.0
2.5
2.0
1.5
1.0
0.5
0.0
growth: 6.5 %
growth: 11.1
4517 %
3769
growth: 8 %
2344
growth: 13.8 %
497
1273
growth: 10.3 %
196
GED 2009: update with GED2010

20. GGER for tertiary education in sub- Saharan Africa Saharan Africa25 20 15 10 5
GER ISCED 56
Malawi
Central
Niger
Chad
Tanzania
Eritrea
Angola
Burundi
Madagascar
Ethiopia
Kenya
Lesotho
Swaziland
Uganda
Democratic
Mali
Côte d’Ivoire
Botswana
Cameroon
Senegal
Namibia
Ghana
Guinea
Benin
Togo
Cape Verde
Mauritius
GED 2010:UIS

21. The global share of mobile students is relatively stable
Number of mobile students from a given region as a percentage of tertiary enrolment in that region (outbound mobility ratio), 1999 and 2007

22. Outbound mobility ratio by country60 50 40 30 20 10
Outbound mobility ratio (%)
Ghana
Uganda
Malawi
Tanzania
Mauritius
Lesotho
Botswana
South Africa

23. Why Mauritius?
• Cost of living
• Hospitable and vibrant nation
• Safe and secure environment – low crime rate
• Multi-cultural environment
• Bi-lingual or multi-lingual society
• Enriching Student experience
• Possibilities for internships and occupational permits in the medium term
Presence of brand institutions with relatively low tuition fees
Mauritius has more to offer

24. Conclusion
International student mobility is changing the global higher education landscape.
• Increasing number of students going abroad to pursue tertiary education.
Africa’s growth rate in terms of mobile students growing faster than elsewhere in the world.
• A large number of African students go to South Africa for studies.
• Visa Schemes and immigration procedures seem to play an increasingly important role in the decision process – students not only seeking employment but (temporary) residency.
• Countries which facilitate the arrival and integration of international students through these schemes will be more competitive.
• “Student Experience” is an important motivational factor.
• Cost of higher education will prove to be a competitive edge.
Mauritius seems to satisfy most of the criteria.
Brand Universities need to consider establishing presence in SSA beyond the traditional franchise model.

25. Information Sources
• UNESCO Institute for Statistics: Global Education Digest (2009)
• “Global Student Mobility 2025”. Bohm, Davis,
Meares and Pearce (2002)
• “International Student Mobility”. World Education News and Reviews (2007)

26. Study in Mauritius The new Sub- Saharan African knowledge hub