Perspectives on distance education: foreign providers in the Caribbean: pillagers or preceptors?

The growing phenomenon of cross-border higher education (CBHE) will not help developing countries unless it is accessible, available, affordable, relevant and of acceptable quality. This publication focusses on the trends of CBHE in the Caribbean, which has its own unique characteristics. The nine commissioned case studies provide an in-depth analysis and insights into a very complex and dynamic phenomenon. Are the foreign providers in the Caribbean pillagers or preceptors? Do they threaten existing institutions or further the developmental objectives of the countries they operate in? Are they a financial threat or an opportunity? Can the subjects they teach address both global and local concerns? Or is this a new form of cultural imperialism? The chapters are: External providers of tertiary education in the Commonwealth Caribbean / Stewart Marshall and Christine Marrett; External tertiary education providers in Barbados / Michael L. Thomas; External tertiary education providers in Belize / Maria Isabel Tun; External tertiary education providers in the British Virgin Islands / Marcia Potter; External tertiary education providers in the Cayman Islands / Deborah Ann Chambers; External tertiary education providers in Jamaica / Nancy A. George; External tertiary education providers in Trinidad and Tobago / Karen Rosemin and Lystra Sampson-Ovid (with research assistance from Aaron Anthony O'Neal and Lynne Mohammed); External tertiary education providers in the Turks and Caicos Islands / Carlton Mills; Maximising the benefits of an in-country foreign tertiary education provider: the School for Field Studies, the Turks and Caicos Islands / David T. Wilson and Carlton Mills; External provision of tertiary education through institutional collaboration in distance education in the Commonwealth Caribbean / Christine Marrett; The global and the local / Stewart Marshall.

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