1st Edition

Higher Education and National Development Universities and Societies in Transition

    336 Pages
    by Routledge

    336 Pages
    by Routledge

    Universities and societies around the world are involved in significant transition. Universities are now invited to expand their central aims and purposes in order to embrace a role in relation to the development of the societies in which they are located. This change of focus has major implications for curricula, modes of teaching and the student body.

    International contributors to this wideranging text discuss different aspects of the phenomenon of globalisation in relation to higher education, but also in relation to moves by nation states to devolve government to regional and subregional bodies and the implications this has for educational systems.

    Contributors

    Acknowledgements

    Introduction

    David Bridges and Terence McLaughlin

     

    PART ONE

    UNIVERSITIES, SOCIETIES AND TRANSITIONS:

    SETTING THE SCENE 1

    1 Comparing and Transferring: Visions, Politics, and Universities

    Robert Cowen

    2 Conceptions of the University and the Demands

    of Contemporary Societies

    Richard Smith

     

     

    PART TWO

    UNIVERSITIES AND TRANSITIONS IN CONCEPTIONS OF SOCIETY

    3 The Development of Higher Education for the Knowledge Society

    and the Knowledge Economy

    Palmira Juceviciene and Rimantas Vaitkus

    4 The Role of the University in the Development of the Learning Society

    Palmira Juceviciene

    5 The Concept of the 'Intelligent Country'

    Robertas Jucevicius

     

     

    PART THREE

    UNIVERSITIES AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

    6 Concepts of Development: the Role of Education

    Flavio Comim

    7 The Role of the University in Regional Economic Development

    David Bridges

    8 Regional Universities in the Baltic Sea Region:

    Higher Education and Regional Development

    Kazimierz Musial

     

     

    PART FOUR

    UNIVERSITIES AND THE DEMANDS OF THE ECONOMY

    9 The Role of Higher Education in National Innovation Systems

    in Central and Eastern Europe

    Slavo Radoševic and Monika Kriaucioniene

    10 Bridging Knowledge and Economy: Technology Transfer

    and Higher Education

    Arunas Lukoševicius

    11 The Changing Requirements for Business Management and

    Business Education in the ‘Countries in Transition’ –

    Combining Cultural and Institutional Perspectives

    Giedrius Jucevicius

    12 Competence Development for the Knowledge-Driven Economy

    Daiva Lepaite

    13 Concepts of a Service University

    Arild Tjeldvoll and Aukse Blaženaite

     

     

    PART FIVE

    UNIVERSITIES AND SOCIAL, CIVIC AND ETHICAL DEMANDS

    14 Higher Education as an Agent of Social Innovation

    Brigita Janiunaite and Dalija Gudaityte

    15 The Role of the University in Community Development:

    Responding to the Challenges of Globalization

    Irena Leliugiene and Viktorija Baršauskiene

     

    16 Higher Education and its Contribution to Public Health:

    Tackling Health Inequalities Through Health Policy Development

    in Lithuania

    Vilius Grabauskas

     

    17 Spirituality and Citizenship in Higher Education

    Hanan A. Alexander

     

    18 Higher Education, Scientific Research and Social Change 452

    Sir Brian Heap

     

     

    PART SIX

    UNIVERSITIES, SOCIETIES AND TRANSITIONS

    IN PERSPECTIVE

    19 The Audit and ‘Embrace’ of Quality in a Higher Education System

    Under Change

    Barbara Zamorski

    20 Universities and Societies: Traditions, Transitions and Tensions 498

    Terence McLaughlin

    Index

    Biography

    David Bridges was Pro Vice Chancellor of the University of East Anglia until 2000 when we became founding Director of the Association of Universities in the East of England.

    Palmira Juceviciene is Professor of Kaunas University of Technology, Head of the Department of Educational Systems and Director of the Institute of Educational Studies.

    Robertas Jucevicius is Professor and Head of the Strategic Management Department at the Kaunas University of Technology. He also is a Director of Business Strategy Institute at the same University.

    Terence Mclaughlin was formerly Professor of Philosophy of Education at the London Institute of Education.

    Jolanta Stankeviciute is a Research Associate at the Von Hugel Institute, St Edmund’s College, Cambridge. She was previously an Associate Professor at Kaunas University of Technology.