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• Debate:Governments and universities everywhere should compete to attract qualified students regardless of nationality or residence

Education is a right according to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

• Francisco Komlavi Seddoh, Director of UNESCO’s Division of Higher Education - "education is a right recognized in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Universities must be open not just to those who can pay but to all those who deserve to go there."[1]
• Katarina Tomasevski, “Globalizing What: Education as a Human Right or as a Traded Service?,” Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, Winter 2005, Volume 12, Issue 1, pp. 1-78.

Counter-argument

• Argument: Higher education is not an international human right