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  1. International and Development Education in the Department of Administrative and Policy Studies of the University of Pittsburgh, USA

    Seth Spaulding (Professor)

  2. (Malaysia)

    Shuib Bin Hussain (Educator, specialist in linguistics and education for development)

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Former Director of the International Bureau of Education of Unesco in Geneva. Author of numerous publications in international and comparative education as well as in the fields of literacy, educational reform and planning.

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Spaulding, S., Hussain, S.B. Reverse educational discrimination in Malaysian education. Prospects 19, 105–116 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02195863

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