Guidelines for Quality Provision in Cross-Border Higher Education

The Guidelines for Quality Provision in Cross-border Higher Education were developed and adopted to supportand encourage international cooperation and enhance the understanding of the importance of quality provisionin cross-border higher education. The purposes of the Guidelines are to protect students and other stakeholdersfrom low-quality provision and disreputable providers (that is, degree and accreditation mills) as well as toencourage the development of quality cross-border higher education that meets human, social, economic andcultural needs. Based on a survey about the main recommendations of the Guidelines, this report monitors theextent to which OECD countries and a few non-member partners complied with its recommendations in 2011.Twenty-three responses were obtained from 22 Members.