Transnational education deals a ‘threat to the academy’

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Reader's comments (2)

#1 Submitted by ... on October 3, 2025 - 7:41am

Well yes exactly. Do you know I was contemplating the other day how certain transformative EDI policies and other recent HR innovations to our working practices would go down over in these new campus in places such as Kazakhstan abd Dubai. But I exect our university leaders will adopt what Edmund Burke referred disparagingly to as a "geographical morality" in such cases.

#2 Submitted by p.... on October 3, 2025 - 9:25am

Yes but why this focus just on China?

Transnational education deals a ‘threat to the academy’

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