Higher education at a time of transformation
Subtitle: new dynamics for social responsibility
By: [compiled by the Global University Network for Innovation]
Series: GUNI series on the social commitment of universities; GUNI series on the social commitment of universities
Publisher: GUNI/Palgrave Macmillan; Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Basingstoke
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780230233379
Subjects: Higher Education
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: List of good practices, tables and maps; title: List of abbreviations; title: Global university network for innovation; title: Unesco; title: United Nations University; title: Universita Politècnica de Catalunya; title: Methodological note; title: PART I. INTRODUCTION: New dynamics for social responsibility; title: PART II. SYNTHESIS OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE WORLD: Higher education: New challenges and emerging roles for human and social development; title: PART III. SYNTHESIS OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE WORLD 2006: The financing of universities; title: PART IV. SYNTHESIS OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE WORLD 2007: Accreditation for quality assurance: What is at stake?; title: PART V. Statistical appendix.