Universities that deliver transnational programs in countries with dubious human rights records have been warned that they are putting more than their reputations at risk. Gearoid O Cuinn and Sigrun Skogly of Lancaster University Law School, in Britain, argue that institutions and accreditation agencies could potentially face legal challenges in their home countries if they do not use the course certification process to try to uphold human rights overseas. Their argument hinges on the possible interpretation of the delivery of higher education as representing the administering of a public function and on the likelihood that the accreditation of such activities would fall into this category.

April 7, 2016 ・ From Times Higher Education