A History of Foreign Students in Britain

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: Travelling Abroad to Study

   1. Introduction: Travelling Abroad to Study

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      Pages 1-15

3. Narrative

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17

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   2. Internationalism Reshaped, 1185–1800

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      Pages 19-36

   3. Revival and Reform, 1800–1900

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      Pages 37-52

   4. Universities for the Empire, 1900–45

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      Pages 53-80

   5. Recovery and Expansion, 1945–79

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      Pages 81-113

   6. Into the Market Place, 1979–2010

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      Pages 114-141

4. Perspectives

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Student Experience

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      Pages 145-179

   3. Poor Scholars and Endowed Scholars

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      Pages 180-200

   4. International Comparisons

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      Pages 201-227

   5. Conclusion: Policies, Purposes and Effects

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      Pages 228-239

5. Back Matter

   Pages 240-288

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Foreign students have travelled to Britain for centuries and, from the beginning, attracted controversy. This book explores changing British policy and practice, and changing student experience, set within the context of British social and political history.

• British History
• History of Education
• Universities and Academia
• Immigration
• Britain
• empire
• expansion
• experience
• Great Britain
• history
• history of literature
• policy
• political history
• reform
• university

“Hilary Perraton is ideally qualified to write this survey of foreign students and their experience in Britain, after a career in education in the Commonwealth and organisations involved with student exchanges and scholarships. … it is an important scholarly achievement that will be the essential starting-point for further work on the subject.” (Robert Anderson, History of Education, January, 2017)

Hilary Perraton is an Historian based at Institute of Education, University of London, UK. He served for seven years on the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission and, to celebrate the scholarships' fiftieth anniversary, published Learning Abroad: A History of the Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan (2009).

Policies and ethics