Articles

Higher education’s contribution to sustainable development: the way forward
In this article Leo Jansen, Professor Emeritus at the Technological University of Delft, explains that in order to integrate sustainable development in higher education, the entire education system, as well as its values and norms, must be rethought.
Leadership for the public good, a collective achievement: the Research Center for Leadership in ActionLeadership for the public good, a collective achievement: the Research Center for Leadership in Action
The Research Center for Leadership in Action (RCLA) was established as a dynamic center of learning, teaching and research skills with the aim of solving urban and social problems and strengthening public service. It is housed within the New York University (NYU) Wagner Graduate School of Public...
Sustainability at Universities: Opportunities, challenges and trends
In this article Walter Leal Filho, Senior Professor at London Metropolitan University, UK and head of the Research and Transfer Centre "Applications of Life Sciences" of the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, explains that sustainability in higher education needs to be perceived as work in...
Public responsibility for higher education and research in Europe
In this article, Sjur Bergan, Head of the Department of Higher Education and History Teaching of the Council of Europe, reflects upon the notion of public responsibility in the field of higher education and research.
GATS/WTO and trade in higher education: tension and dissension in the education community
In this article, Antoni Verger of the University of Amsterdam reflects on the complexity associated with the internationalisation of education implied by the World Trade Organisation’s General Agreement on Trade in Services and highlights the tensions arising from the Agreement and affecting the...
Interesting Times and Places: Sustainability in Higher Education in the Asia-Pacific
Dr. Alex Ryan and Professor Daniella Tilbury, University of Gloucestire, present a review on Sustainability in Higher Education in the Asia-Pacific: Developments, challenges, and prospects, a special issue published by the International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education.
Achieving the MDGs through quadruple helix partnerships: university-government-industry-third sector collaboration
Valtencir Maldonado Mendes (Brasil) “We must not fail the billions who look to the international community to fulfil the promise of the Millennium Declaration for a better world. Let us keep the promise. (…) Meeting the goals is everyone’s business”. - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. The MDGs...
Training for the Profession of Sustainable Development: Educational Requirements for Practical Imperatives
John W. McArthur (USA) Chief Executive Officer of Millennium Promise. In this article, the authors explain that a new type of cross-disciplinary practitioner is needed, one who understands the complex interactions between fields and is able to effectively coordinate and implement the insights...
Quality and the social responsibility of universities
In this article, Yazmín Cruz, GUNI project officer, states that quality cannot be an abstract, unimportant notion: it must be applied to a specific context and in relation to the relevance of an institution and its role in solving the problems faced by a community.
University Social Responsibility: Methodological Development Proposal
In this article, Juanjo Martí Noguera, of the University of Valencia, presents an analysis of the social responsibility of the university. This analysis of the social responsibility of the university, is in particular, coming from a psychology perspective and sketches the first approximation on the...
The Arts in Higher Education as a Vehicle for Social Change: Right vs. Wide
Higher education institutions constitute an apparently privileged space within which society can question, experiment with and even confront itself. In theory, they can be an environment for creative endeavour. However, numerous contradictions encountered in practice hinder or even impede this...
Contributions of a human development approach to re-visioning the quality of universities
In this article, Alejandra Boni, Studies Group on Development, Cooperation and Ethics, Department of Projects Engineering of the Technical University of Valencia, and Des Gasper, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, propose a matrix to interpret universities’ activities and achievements in...
Sustainability: An integrative vision
In this article Àngels Canadell, coordinator of the GUNI Report Higher Education in the World 4, explains the need of an integrative vision to advance sustainability and the possible education’s contribution on this.
The World We Want: Creating a New Architecture of Knowledge
In this article, Budd Hall, University of Victoria (Canada) Chan Lean Heng, Universiti Sains Malaysia and Rajesh Tandon, Society for Participatory Research, (India) highlight the importance of community-university research partnerships and present the philosophy and activities of the Global...
The PEACE Programme: a Unique Interuniversity Cooperation Network
Dr. Dumitru Chitoran (Bucharest), Faculty Dean and Vice Rector of the University. The 7th International PEACE Conference on Academic Cooperation and the Palestinian Universities will be held in Barcelona on 22-23 November 2010, jointly with the 8th session of the General Assembly of PEACE. It will...