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, is a relatively unexplored subject, particularly among economists. The object of this essay is to reflect upon the intersection …
Building Singapore’s University Education System in a Globalized World
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 Cambridge, new discoveries have been forged to transform the way we live and …
An Open University for the 21st Century
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 society where knowledge increases at an exponential rate
Partnering on a Global Scale
The past decade has brought tumultuous change to industry, effectively rewriting the assumptions and rules of how global business is conducted and of where to locate one’s operations and why. The advancement of information and communications technology, the ready access to a global delivery infrastructure, the pervasiveness of worldwide supply …
The Organizational Challenge for European Universities facing Globalization
The academic world is more global than ever: competition for talents, international mobility both of students and faculty, diversification of funding are some of the main features of this changing environment faced by universities. International rankings are blooming and contribute — despite their obvious limitations — to globalization as well …
Has our Reach exceeded our Grasp
My purpose in this essay is to draw a distinction between being “global” and being “international”. I would like to begin, however, from a more personal perspective. For more than 40 years now I have spent a substantial portion of each year outside my own country. Like many academics, I …
Russian Universities in the Global World
Modern knowledge, economy and social development are creating a new, rapidly changing intellectual labour market. Institutes of higher education should constantly modify and upgrade educational programmes and technologies, update equipment and support lecturers’ professional development. Institutes of higher education should react adequately
Preface to the Globalization of Higher Education
The Sixth Glion Colloquium brought together university leaders from around the world in Glion above Montreux, Switzerland, to consider the challenges, opportunities and responsibilities presented to higher education by the emerging global, knowledge-driven economy. Launched in 1998 by Professors Luc Weber (University of Geneva) and Werner Hirsch (University of California), …
Universities as Content Providers
The main mission of the University was and still is Education. Naturally, Universities are also involved in many other activities like Research, Innovation, Incubation of small companies, services, etc. Education is, however, the main goal. To achieve this goal, Universities daily produce and disseminate content using different instruments.
Building Singapore’s University Education System in a Globalized World
Singapore is a small young nation with a relatively short history, becoming independent only in 1965. Over the last 42 years, Singapore has moved from third world to first world and built a modern economy with a per-capita income second in Asia only to that of Japan. This paper will …
Higher Education in the 21st Century
We live in a time of great change, an increasingly global society, driven by the exponential growth of new knowledge and knitted together by rapidly evolving information and communication technologies. It is a time of challenge and contradiction, as an ever-increasing human population threatens global sustainability;