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In a country with only one major university for a long time, academic inbreeding was necessary and inevitable. As part of socialist Yugoslavia, Slovenia was its most developed region and professors of Slovenian universities were rarely graduates of the Yugoslav universities. Further, due to the “non-aligned” character of Yugoslav foreign politics, borders with Western Europe were open and study at foreign universities was not impossible, especially in science, technology, and medicine. Nevertheless, the possibilities for study abroad were fairly limited due to economic conditions. Moreover, study abroad has often led to brain drain. Despite rising enrollments since the 1990s, Slovenia is still a small higher education system (with only four universities) and academic inbreeding is a recognizable feature.
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Klemenčič, M., Zgaga, P. (2015). Slovenia: The Slow Decline of Academic Inbreeding. In: Yudkevich, M., Altbach, P.G., Rumbley, L.E. (eds) Academic Inbreeding and Mobility in Higher Education. Palgrave Studies in Global Higher Education. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137461254_7
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