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Saturday, December 7, 2019

Short Article: Towards Higher Education for a Better Civil Society

Title:
Towards higher education for a better civil society

Authors:
Patrick Blessinger, Enakshi Sengupta & Craig Mahoney

Published:
University World News, 7 December 2019

From this article:
"Higher education around the world is at a juncture. For instance, academics are now challenged to protect academic freedom, to treat lifelong learning as a human right and to reinvent the institutional vision, mission and values so they are compatible with the realities of the emerging world paradigms of globalisation, social responsibility and sustainable development.

To this end, educators must first understand what it means to be a socially responsible institution  and their role in civil society."

To read this article:
https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20191202120655146