by GK | Jan 1, 2008 | Chapters and other contributions, Financial Resources, Governance and leadership, Missions & Responsibilities
David Ward, University of Wisconsin-Madison 2008 Globalization and the attendant emergence of the global knowledge economy are exerting tremendous pressures on universities around the world and reshaping some of their basic assumptions and activities. Although...
by GK | Jan 1, 2008 | Challenges, Chapters and other contributions, Missions & Responsibilities
Luc Weber, University of Geneva 2008 We are living in a period of deep and rapid changes which are offering great hopes for peace and prosperity, but which are also the source of important challenges and even threats. The direction of change will depend on the...
by GK | Jan 1, 2008 | Chapters and other contributions, Governance and leadership, Missions & Responsibilities
Chuck Vest, MIT Cambridge 2008 The 21st century is an age when we cannot compete nationalistically based on geography, natural resources or military might. Nations can only prosper and compete based on brainpower and innovation. Because brainpower and innovation...
by GK | Jan 1, 2008 | Challenges, Chapters and other contributions, Missions & Responsibilities
Deepak Nayyar, Jawaharlal Nehru University 2008 Globalization is centre-stage in the contemporary world. It interests almost everyone. Education, alas, is back-stage somewhere in the midst of the props. It interests some of us. Globalization and education, together,...
by GK | Jan 1, 2008 | Chapters and other contributions, Governance and leadership, Human Resources, Missions & Responsibilities
Tony Tan Keng Yam 2008 The research universities represented by the Glion Colloquium have been responsible for many of the greatest discoveries and intellectual breakthroughs in history. I am proud to lead one of these universities. For the last 800 years in...
by GK | Jan 1, 2008 | Chapters and other contributions, Governance and leadership, Missions & Responsibilities, Teaching & Learning
Brenda Gourley, Open University 2008 Many things have been forever changed by the forces of globalization that have swept the world in the last couple of decades. Higher Education is one of them. It has also been changed by the imperatives of a knowledge society, a...
