Chaos around higher education language

Inside Higher Education carried a story about a recent report delivered at the "Going Global" conference identifying language as one of international education's biggest problems. The report proposed using the term "transnational education" (TNE) as a catch-all that characterizes everything from branch campuses to stand-alone institutions. Beyond the broad category of what to call these universities, the report calls attention to variations in other definitions as fundamental as registration, accreditation and quality assurance which make it difficult to compare across institutions and to know if educators are even talking about the same thing.