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Higher Education in the World Report

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The Report is a collective work published as part of the GUNi Series on the Social Commitment of Universities. It is the result of a global and regional analysis of higher education in the world. With a specific subject chosen for each edition, the Report reflects on the key issues and challenges facing higher education and its institutions in the 21st century. 150 authors from 48 countries have contributed to the three GUNi reports.

The Report is published:
  • In English by Palgrave Macmillan.
  • In Spanish by Mundi-Prensa.
  • In Chinese thanks to the collaboration of GUNi’s Asia Pacific Regional Office.
  • In Portuguese by the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.


The Report is essential reading for university leaders, academics, administrators and policy-makers concerned with all the issues relating to the role of higher education.

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Some of the contents of the Reports are available in the Open Content Repository:

Spanish 100% (2006, 2007, 3 and 2009)

English 20% (2006, 2007 and 3)

English & Portuguese 100% (2009)

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The report can be obtained directly from our publishers websites:

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The publications listed below are included in the collection:

 

HEIW4Higher Education in the World 4

Higher Education’s Commitment to Sustainability: from Understanding to Action
The publication presents the current situation and its implications, analyzing the link between sustainability and higher education. It shows a map of how the regions are advancing with regard to the subject; complemented with trending topics, networks' experiences and good practices. The publication also includes a study to identify the main barriers that prevent the transformation of higher education institutions towards contributing to the sustainability paradigm, and highlights possible solutions. Furthermore, some visions for transformation are presented in a global framework, as pathways to advance from understanding to action.

Main features of ‘Higher Education in the World 4’:

  • is the fourth report in the series
  • contains contributions by 86 eminent scholars from 36 countries
  • provides supporting statistics, analytical maps and a detailed bibliography
  • was complemented by the results of the fifth Barcelona Conference on Higher Education
  • presents new ideas for transforming higher education through principles such as interdisciplinarity, contextualization of knowledge, systemic approach, intergenerational perspective, and societal commitment
  • offers a valuable, global and current perspective on higher education institutions as key role players in building the sustainable paradigm
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HEIW SynHigher Education at a Time of Transformation: New Dynamics for Social Responsibility
Synthesis of the GUNI Higher Education in the World Reports

Higher Education at a Time of Transformation: New Dynamics for Social Responsibility was specially commissioned by UNESCO for the 2009 World Conference on Higher Education (WCHE). Taken from the GUNI Series on the Social Commitment of Universities, which explores key issues facing higher education in the twenty-first century, this publication is a synthesis of the three reports:
  • Higher Education in the World 2006: The Financing of Universities
  • Higher Education in the World 2007: Accreditation for Quality Assurance: What is at Stake?
  • Higher Education in the World 3. Higher Education: New Challenges and Emerging Roles for Human and Social Development
Including contributions from 70 authors from 34 countries, this publication showcases the key ideas from the global issues and the regional perspectives, as well as 24 good practices, making it an essential tool for all involved in higher education.
This publication analyzes the present and future challenges faced by higher education institutions in the context of globalization, providing a perspective on the financing of higher education, and on the accreditation mechanisms that are in place for assuring quality. It also examines the challenges and emerging roles of higher education in terms of its contribution to human and social development.
The publication also focuses on how higher education institutions (HEIs) could contribute to a systematic and proactive analysis to develop critical discourses with which societies can continually reflect on its evolution for a positive social transformation. It presents as well how HEIs could strength their role as agents of transformation, facing both local and global challenges, concluding that their vision and mission need to be re-oriented towards the creation and distribution of socially relevant knowledge and complex understanding of reality, strengthening their social responsibility contributing through knowledge, to a harmonious global development.

 

 

HEIW 2008Higher Education in the World 3
Higher Education: New Challenges and Emerging Roles for Human and Social Development

This Report analyses the latest knowledge, research, experiences and practices to rethink and propose new routes for the interchange of values between higher education institutions and society. This may be achieved through reconsidering the role that is assigned to higher education in terms of its contribution to human and social development in economic, political, social, human, environmental and cultural spheres.
The report includes papers written by 52 eminent scholars from around the world, including 14 global and regional contributions, 29 special contributions and 14 good practices. It also contains a Delphi poll of 214 higher education experts and practitioners giving their views on the subject, as well as supporting statistics, analytical maps and a detailed bibliography.

 

 

HEIW 2007Higher Education in the World 2007
Accreditation for Quality Assurance: What is at Stake?

 

The 2007 report, Accreditation for Quality Assurance: What is at Stake?, includes papers from 48 eminent scholars from around the world discussing, from both global and regional perspectives, the issues associated with accreditation in higher education. Some of the principal issues dealt with are:
  • What are the historical and sociological roots of accreditation?
  • What are the current mechanisms of accreditation?
  • How do they take care of cross-border higher education?
  • What are the financial implications of accreditation?
  • How to avoid corruption in the process?
  • What are the steps to set up an ideal accreditation agency?
  • What are the main issues related to the governance of the process?
The report attempts to answer these questions based on a theoretical analysis and practical evidence.  It also includes a Delphi poll of more than 100 key experts and practitioners giving their views on the subject, and contains supporting statistics, analytical maps and a detailed bibliography.

 

 

HEIW 2006Higher Education in the World 2006
The Financing of Universities

The 2006 Report contains articles by over forty renowned academics from all over the world, who analyze aspects related to the financing of higher education from both theoretical and regional perspectives.
Furthermore, it also includes a Delphi poll of more than 70 key experts and practitioners giving their views on the subject, and contains supporting statistics, analytical maps and a detailed bibliography.
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