Interviews
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Universities: locally relevant, internationally significant
The Director of the Office of Community-Based Research and Senior Fellow in the Centre for Global Studies (University of Victoria, Canada), Budd Hall, talked with GUNI about the new challenges for higher education in North America, such as equity, distribution of resources, globalization or sustainability. Prof. Hall also considers very important to engage universities with their local community, but without forgetting a global point of view. In this sense, universities have to provide students theoretical and practical knowledge but also skills for them to be active citizens in the interconnected global society.
Thursday, July 31, 2008
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Globalization: What does it mean for Higher Education?
Professor of Economics at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, Deepak Nayyar, talked with GUNI about the dangers and the opportunities created by markets and globalization in terms of their effects on values in higher education and also on the higher education system. He explained the demand for higher education in China and India, about how these countries have to act regarding the internationalisation of education and the global economy
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
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Challenges of higher education in an increasingly international context
The president of the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA), Judith S. Eaton, talked to GUNI about the US Higher Education system and the challenges it will be facing over the coming years. She considers that US universities are working to become more international and they will continue along the non-traditional path, that is to say more part-time students and more working students.
Thursday, June 26, 2008
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Transforming the way to learn through dialogue and participation
Peter Taylor, research fellow and leader of the Participation, Power and Social Change Team of the Institute of Development Studies (University of Sussex), talked about the third volume of GUNI’s report Higher Education in the World, of which he is guest editor. He says that in order to be able to face the complex challenges of today’s world, higher education should build curricula on issues of social change and human and social development. He participated in the roundtable on Preparing the new generation – the educative purpose and higher education curricula for human and social development of the 4th International Barcelona Conference on Higher Education ‘Higher Education: New Challenges and Emerging Roles for Human and Social Development’ held last April.
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
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Interview with Gemma Rauret: European Higher Education Area, Quality and Accreditation
“The arrival of the European Higher Education Area will have very significant implications for the measures and practices of quality assessment and accreditation in Spain and in Europe” says Gemma Rauret, director of the Spanish National Agency for Quality Assurance and Accreditation (ANECA), spoke to us of the challenges that must be faced in the years ahead by the Spanish higher education system within the European Higher Education Area. She also spoke of the role that ANECA will play in this context and the strategy it will employ.
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
