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Robert Blackburn (educationalist)
1990Jul, 16

Robert Blackburn (educationalist)

Robert Blackburn, Irish educator (b. 1927)
Robert Blackburn (26 September 1927 – 16 July 1990) was an Irish educationalist. He was an early pioneer of the International Baccalaureate Organisation (IBO) and was instrumental in establishing the first United World College (UWC) in the early 1960s.

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    Kuwait

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