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Thinking Allowed: Global higher education - Homophobia and football

20/10/2010

Global higher education - Homophobia and football

BBC Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed, Global higher education - Homophobia and football

Laurie Taylor examines homophobia and football and looks at global higher education.

Laurie Taylor looks at new research examining homophobia and football and discusses the ever expanding world of global higher education.

Laurie Taylor examines some new research about homophobia and football and talks to Professor Ellis Cashmore from Staffordshire University about how fans, players and management respond to the issue. They're joined by writer and broadcaster David Goldblatt who has a strong interest in sport.

Laurie also discusses the growth of global higher education and talks to Ben Wildavsky whose new book charts the development of academic migration across the world- looking at the cross border movement of students, academics, faculties and the development of new universities in places like China, Asia and The Middle East.

Producer Chris Wilson.

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