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What should ‘international education’ look like?

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Next week, delegates from across the world will gather in Cambridge to discuss what ‘international education’ actually looks like. Tim Oates describes the debate and some of the questions that will be tackled.

International education has an amazing history. But if it is to continue to develop productively we need a global dialogue to determine exactly what it means and what it should include in different contexts.

“International education”, the idea of knowledge being created in one place and then transmitted through scholarly institutions across a very, very wide geographical area, has an incredible pedigree.

Look back and you will see the movement of scholars throughout Europe going back to the Middle Ages. We are now doing it in different ways, but the idea of this creation of knowledge and then its dissemination is something that began with human civilisation.

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