Simon Marginson was a Plenary Speaker at the 2010 Conference.
Simon Marginson is a Professor of Higher Education located in the Centre for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne, Australia. His work is focused on globalization and the knowledge economy, international education and education policy, with some emphasis on the Asia-Pacific region, and he has completed three reports for the OECD in these areas.
Professor Marginson’s paper International Student Security: Globalization, State, University has been published as part of the Journal of the World Universities Forum.
Abstract:
Recent issues of international student security in Australia, especially breaches of the personal safety of students from South Asia, raise far-reaching questions about the security of mobile persons in a world governed and regulated by bordered nation-states. States have a prima facie first obligation to their own citizens and are chronically unable to provide for universal humanism or even universalise protections for strangers. Given the growing number of mobile persons – whether students, economic travellers or refugees – it is increasingly apparent that a new multilateral or global regime is needed to provide for personal security.
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From Declan Butler in Nature:
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