Keeping our universities special

Surviving and thriving in a turbulent world

This paper presents the emerging world of higher education as an open, fluid ecology of learning, replacing the historical producer-centric model of the economy of knowledge with one that fosters opportunities, creativity and innovation through communities of shared, co-operative learning. In this world, universities will need to redesign and re-assemble the basic building blocks of higher education, re-asserting in different ways their role as agents of learning, rather than simply providers of knowledge. Government too will need to rethink its strategies towards higher education, promoting policy outcomes more through encouraging demand-side engagement than through supply-side directives.

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