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National and global competition in higher education

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This is a revised version of the Radford Lecture delivered to the NZARE/AARE Joint Conference, Auckland, New Zealand, 29 November to 3 December 2003.

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Marginson, S. National and global competition in higher education. Aust. Educ. Res. 31, 1–28 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03249517

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