"No one has done anything like this before, " says Macquarie University pro-vice chancellor Professor Tony Adams.

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Mike Poulsen of Macquarie University, in Australia, told a London conference last week that Bradford's Pakistanis are now as isolated as African-Americans in New York.

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The university consortia include the Al Akhawayn University of Morocco, the Beijing Foreign Studies University and Peking University of China, the Tecnologico de Monterrey University of Mexico, the University of Ghana and the Macquarie University of Australia.

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