Distance Education Funding: Structural Forms and Institutions

Abstract

The availability of education is named among the indicators of the quality of life. It's only natural that quality education, especially higher and professional training, which influence future career prospects directly, is long sought-after. The international activities of higher educational institutions at their today's stage combine traditional internationalization and transnationalization. On the one hand the global market for educational services develops rapidly. On the other, the major universities in developed countries acquire features characteristic of transnational corporations (TNK). Some higher educational institutions position themselves as global. Working their way into the educational space of other countries, they keep changing the traditional institutional structure of education, its forms of tuition and funding mechanisms.