ABSTRACT
This chapter provides us with a rich analytic and empirical description of the internationalisation of universities in the context of cultural globalisation and, indeed, economic crisis. It takes a different analytic tact and historical standpoint to the study of them and us, insiders and outsiders, in the internationalisation of education. The chapter deals with a dry, detached account of internationalisation of Anglo/European universities, tracing its evolution from political and cultural to economic practice. During the expansion of international programs, many universities have undergone a wilful deskilling of policy on internationalisation. The chapter suggests that many paradigmatic tools and approaches to 'critical' educational research were of universal relevance. Explanations of international students' experience have directly and indirectly drawn on explanatory models from research on cultural and ethnic minorities in mainstream schooling. British, French, and European universities established training grounds for colonial civil servants, teachers, the military, missionaries and, later, technical experts.
