%0 Conference Proceedings %A Baker, A. %A Nesbit, T. %D 2006 %T Transnational Education – The Students Coming Onshore: A Case Study %E Mann, S. %E Bridgeman, N. %B 19th Annual Conference of the National Advisory Committee on Computing Qualifications %C Wellington, New Zealand %I NACCQ in cooperation with ACM SIGCSE %P 11-15 %@ ISSN 1176-8053 %U www.naccq.ac.nz %8 7th-10th July 2006 %X Since 2001 Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology (CPIT) has taught the first two tears of the Bachelor of Information and Communication Technologies (BICT) degree at four vocational colleges in Beijing, China. The students study for three years as the computing content is combined with a year of English language study. After passing the three years study in Beijing the students graduate with a Diploma of Computing (Level 6) and they are eligible to complete the final year of the BICT at CPIT. Students’ who articulate to the BICT often require extra English tuition, find our educational model foreign and they often feel pressured by the expectations of their family in China. CPIT academic staff, who teach on the third year of the degree, have noticed a change in class dynamics as these ‘new to CPIT’ students require additional support in many cases. The students have little independent learning skills and require nurturing initially to get them comfortable with the CPIT way of life. In spite of the problems faced by the students and staff the success rate of these students is reasonably close to the success rate of other students in the final year of the BICT degree. %K Transnational Education, Off Shore Delivery, China, Education, CPIT.