National–Global Upheavals are Destabilizing Higher Education

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  • Simon Marginson University of Bristol

Keywords:

Geopolitics and Academic Freedom

Abstract

Amid growing nativism and migration resistance in Western politics, coupled with geopolitical conflict between the United States and China, the local and national identities of Anglophone and European higher education institutions are increasingly in tension with their global activity and commitment to cross-border cooperation based on academic freedom.

Author Biography

Simon Marginson, University of Bristol

Simon Marginson is professor of higher education at the University of Bristol, United Kingdom, professor emeritus at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, and honorary professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. E-mail: simon.marginson@education.ox.ac.uk.

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2025-08-05

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Marginson, S. (2025). National–Global Upheavals are Destabilizing Higher Education. International Higher Education, (123), 5–6. Retrieved from https://ejournals.bc.edu/index.php/ihe/article/view/20217

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No. 123 (2025): Summer Issue

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