The scramble for EMI: lessons from postcolonial ‘old EMI’ universities

While more and universities in traditionally non-Anglophone countries are moving towards English medium instruction (EMI), those of the nominally Anglophone postcolonial world carrying on with business as usual. Higher education many has typically only ever been available through language former colonisers, so institutions British colonies now find themselves ahead global trend. This paper considers what lessons can be learnt from ‘old EMI’ universities, we see swept up scramble for EMI. Universities looking to join neo-Anglophone higher sector would do well learn decades experience who still struggling create ideal learning teaching environments their students staff an L2 instruction, may wondering why others choosing follow suit.