This annual report by leading scholars exploring issues in Higher Education, focuses each year on a key issue debated at the International Barcelona Conference on Higher Education.It offers unique global perspective on issues of critical importance to higher education. It includes contributions from eminent scholars from around the world. It is supported by invaluable supporting material, including maps, statistical appendices and a Delphi poll of over 70 key thinkers commenting on the subject.This annual report, from leading scholars, explores the key issues facing Higher Education institutions in the twenty-first century, with special emphasis on the theme of new challenges, changing roles: steering a course for human and social development. This publication coincides with the annual International Barcelona Conference on Higher Education.
Team Involved in the Preparation of This Report
List of Figures, Boxes, Tables and Maps
Special Contribution A Higher Education, an Actor in Human and Social Development UNESCO'S Point of View by Georges Haddad
Summary of the World Declaration on Higher Education
Special Contribution B Contribution of Higher Education to the UN Millennium Development Goals by Goolam Mohamedbhai
The UN Millennium Development Goals
Special Contribution C Transforming Higher Education in Developing Countries: The Role of the World Bank by Richard Hopper and Jamil Salmi and Roberta Malee Bassett
Special Contribution D The OECD'S View of the Role of Higher Education for Human and Social Development by Andy Johnston and Richard Yelland
Special Contribution E Key International Frameworks for the Role of Higher Education in Human and Social Development by Yazmin Cruz Lopez
Pt. I Global Issues on the Role of Higher Education for Human and Social Development 1
A Present and future challenges for higher education's role in the context of globalization 3
I.1 The Complex Roles of Universities in the Period of Globalization by Philip G. Altbach 5
Special Contribution I.1 Contemporary Challenges for Public Research Universities by Imanol Ordorika 14
I.2 The University of the 21st Century: Political and Social Trends of Globalization - Challenges for Higher Education by Federico Mayor-Zaragoza 20
Special Contribution I.2 The University and Cosmopolitan Citizenship by Gerard Delanty 28
Special Contribution I.3 The Contribution of Higher Education to Multicultural Existence: Present and Future Challenges by Aziza Bennani 31
Special Contribution I.4 Higher Education and Its Institutions and the Civilizational Paradigm Crisis: Reflections, Analysis and Proposals from the Perspective of a Forum of International Civil Society Organizations by Josep Xercavins i Valls 35
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