by GK | Jan 1, 2016 | Challenges, Chapters and other contributions, Financial Resources
Tony F. Chan, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 2016 China’s continuous economic rise in the last three decades has beenone of the most dramatic events in world history. In addition to liftinghundreds of millions people out of poverty, creating a huge...
by LW | Jan 1, 2014 | Challenges, Chapters and other contributions, Financial Resources
Ronald J. DANIELS, Johns Hopkins University 2014 The research university stands as one of the most admired and emulated of American institutions. Year after year, American universities dominate the international rankings of institutions of higher education. The demand...
by LW | Jan 1, 2014 | Chapters and other contributions, Financial Resources
Luc E. Weber, University of Geneva 2014 Higher education (HE), more than most other goods or services, can be provided either by the public sector or the market. It can be also paid for either by the State (the taxpayers or lenders) or by private interests...
by LW | Jan 1, 2014 | Challenges, Chapters and other contributions, Financial Resources, Governance and leadership
John Niland, University of New South Wales 2014 A common wisdom is that we are now entering the Asian Century, having travelled the American century in the 1900s and the British century in the 1800s. This reflects the array of impressive economic indicators emerging...
by LW | Jan 1, 2014 | Chapters and other contributions, Financial Resources
Howard Newby, University of Liverpool 2014 We are living in a time of great economic uncertainty where governments are providing our universities with less resource, yet at the same time expecting to exert greater influence, through increasing regulation and a more...
by GK | Jan 1, 2012 | Challenges, Chapters and other contributions, Financial Resources, Governance and leadership
Chuck Vest, MIT Cambridge 2012 One of the most vexing problems we face today in moving toward a more sustainable society is the problem of uncertainty and imperfect predictability of complex physical and biological phenomena. Such states of knowledge cause havoc when...
