Same Stories, Different Continents

Higher education (HE) is increasingly globalised, involving partnerships between institutions in different countries. There is little research available on such educational partnerships in HE. Just like learning experiences themselves, each educational partnership is unique but we propose a set of six factors to consider, which might help formulate the dimensions of future research. We reflect here on 6 years of partnerships between our university and colleges both in our own country (Scotland, UK) and Malaysia to deliver IT degree programmes, enabling a our student experience to be shared by non-traditional learners who cannot study in Edinburgh, due to work, family, financial and other commitments. Users' stories help us understand and meet stakeholders' needs, and plan future research. What emerges is evidence of an equivalent set of learning experiences, despite the geographic and cultural distances