by LW | Jun 30, 2020 | Chapters and other contributions, Research & Innovation
Leszek Borysiewicz The topic of this presentation is immediately current, even as I write this short summary. We sit at the beginning of May 2019 in the UK without any resolution to the long-running national debate that sur-rounds Brexit. This debate has polarized...
by LW | Jun 30, 2020 | Chapters and other contributions, Missions & Responsibilities
Joël Mesot What is at stake? Never before has there been such a huge choice of providers of higher education as today. As this sector grows in reach and impact, it is also becoming more international. OECD data show that the mem -ber countries host more than 3.5...
by LW | Jun 30, 2020 | Chapters and other contributions, Missions & Responsibilities
David W. Leebron We are meeting on the eve of your colloquium, which is why — when I was kindly asked to kick-start our discussion this evening — I thought it would be constructive to take a step back and begin with more of a bird’s-eye view. Specifically, I would...
by LW | Jun 30, 2020 | Chapters and other contributions, Governance and leadership
Pratap Bhanu Mehta The modern Indian University dates back to the establishment of the three universities in the Presidency towns of Calcutta, Bombay and Madras in the middle of the 19th century. Indian higher education has taken diverse forms since then, from the...
by LW | Jun 30, 2020 | Chapters and other contributions, Governance and leadership
Atsushi Seike Learning is, by nature, a personal activity. From an economic perspective, increasing our income by acquiring knowledge and skills through study is an “investment”, and, furthermore, obtaining knowledge and learn-ing new skills are forms of “consumption”...
by LW | Jun 30, 2020 | Chapters and other contributions, Research & Innovation
Alice P. Gast The sometimes-surprising trends of the last three years, from the rise of populism to the distrust of expertise, have led many to accuse the global elite, and academics in particular, of being out of touch with society and stuck in narrow “echo...
