Going Global: Speakers set out challenges for international education from "populism and polarisation"

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Maddalaine Ansell, Michael Ignatieff and Stella Christie at the opening plenary of Going Global. - ©  British Council

Speakers at the British Council's Going Global event taking place in London on 28/10/25 highlighted the threats that international education is facing in an increasing hostile political environment.

Maddalaine Ansell, Director of Education at the British Council, said that the internationalisation of education was threatened by growing...

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Maddalaine Ansell, Michael Ignatieff and Stella Christie at the opening plenary of Going Global. - ©  British Council

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