Higher Education and National Development
Universities and Societies in Transition
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Book Description
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.
Table of Contents
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
Editor(s)
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.