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Introduction and Overview

In: The Globalization of Higher Education

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  • Christine T. Ennew

    (University of Nottingham)

  • David Greenaway

    (University of Nottingham)

Abstract

In 2009 some 15,000 students from Japan opted for higher education in China.1 This is a tradition that goes back almost 1,300 years, to the time when the Japanese first began sending students to study in China. The great universities of Medieval Europe — Paris, Bologna and Oxford — were genuinely international communities, with academics and students moving easily across borders, united by a common language and a desire to study with the best. And historically, Al Karaouine, held by some to be the oldest university in the world, has provided a forum in which Muslim, Christian and Jewish scholars congregated to exchange knowledge and ideas. Indeed historians of higher education suggest that the proportion of international students in university populations in the medieval and early modern periods may have been significantly larger than it is today (Guruz, 2011).

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  • Christine T. Ennew & David Greenaway, 2012. "Introduction and Overview," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Christine T. Ennew & David Greenaway (ed.), The Globalization of Higher Education, chapter 1, pages 1-16, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-26505-0_1
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137265050_1
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