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This paper analyses the decision of British academic advisors to deny vernacular university degrees in post–war Malaya. As a case study, this decision was important as one element in the first systematic effort to build up higher education in the British Empire.
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Chou, G.A. (2014). Translating Higher Education in the British Empire. In: Vega, L. (eds) Empires, Post-Coloniality and Interculturality. The CESE Series. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-731-5_14
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