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Too much English in our universities?

2022-11-01 BusinessWorld
Op-Ed
Reference
Forslund, Eva and Magnus Henrekson (2022). “Too much English in our universities?”. BusinessWorld, November 1.

Authors
Eva Forslund, Magnus Henrekson

Professors and researchers in the Philippines compete within a global arena of science and scholarship. To do so, they use English, even when English is not their native language. Do those who play the academic game do right by their own country? Are they doing right by the students in their classrooms?