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Thinking Allowed

Global higher education - Homophobia and football

Thinking Allowed

BBC

Society & Culture, Science

4.4997 Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2010

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

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.

Transcript

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when an ugly rumor went around that I was the model for Howard Kirk, the self-serving unscrupulous libidinous

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