Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to review the literature of international development strategy of high education and examine what is happening currently in terms of education collaboration between the UK and China and attempt to address various challenges in capacity building through...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse the growing importance of knowledge transfer in the globalising economy, especially in relation to the policy driver in a number of countries to transform their current economies into knowledge economies. It discusses the various implications...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify the key developments in Sino‐foreign cooperation in higher education (HE) in China in terms of policy initiatives and legal frameworks and to highlight the main challenges for the sector in the future. Design/methodology/approach –...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore, within the context of developing Sino‐UK educational relationships, the evolution of a specific partnership, that between Tianjin Business School, Tianjin University of Commerce, Tianjin, and Salford Business School, University of Salford,...