Table 1 The international education corpus.

From: Interpreting public policy dilemmas: discourse analytical insights

Level of corpus

Type of documents

Approximate number of documents

Core policy

Reports from international organisations (mostly World Bank and UN agencies). Policy papers and speeches from national governments

100

Intermediary

Reports and policy briefings from the non-profit sector. Academic empirical literature

100

Periphery

News articles and transcripts of podcasts. Scripts from radio, television and film

100