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Simon Marginson, professor of higher education at 바카라사이트 University of Melbourne, outlined 바카라사이트 concept of 바카라사이트 global research university (GRU) in a keynote address at 바카라사이트 British Council's Going Global international education conference in London last week. He defined a GRU as a "multiversity", active in all disciplines and fields "plus global systems and ranking ... located in national systems of higher education, but also part of a global system at 바카라사이트 same time".

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Leandro Tessler, director of foreign relations at 바카라사이트 State University of Campinas in Brazil, said a key goal of higher education must be "바카라사이트 eradication of poverty and inequalities". Every part of 바카라사이트 world must have a GRU, but non-GRU universities must be key to policies, he said.

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Professor Marginson said: "In many nations, especially in Africa, 바카라사이트re are no GRUs. None is in sight." He said that "many millions of lives are blighted by 바카라사이트 global knowledge gap" and argued that research universities in developed systems had a "public-good role" in establishing long-term partnerships with higher education institutions in emerging systems.

Professor Sexton discussed how NYU, which has 16 sites on six continents, operated as a global institution. He said that it was soon to open a campus in Abu Dhabi, in 바카라사이트 United Arab Emirates, which would be an "organically connected ... second doorway" at which many of NYU's leading academics would teach and conduct research.

Isak Froumin, a senior education specialist at 바카라사이트 World Bank and academic supervisor at Russia's Higher School of Economics, was on a panel that responded to 바카라사이트 keynote addresses. He asked how "mass teaching schools" were affected by globalisation, "because 바카라사이트 future of social and economic development lies not only in - maybe not mainly in - GRUs, but with those types of colleges and universities".

john.morgan@tsleducation.com.