Higher education and the English question

Higher education and the English question – Karen MacGregor 19 June 2011 University World News

The globally dominant English media is exporting the British-American worldview of higher education everywhere, Columbia University's Jorge Balan said in Toronto last week. And the growing use of English as the lingua franca of higher education is placing huge pressures on non-English academics while those who succeed in the mainstream may "perish locally".