Objectes multimèdia amb l’etiqueta: Universitats i centres de recerca

Resultats de la cerca

Interview with George Bureng Nyombe

Accés obert
27 de gen. 2009
The Minister of Higher Education of Sudan, George Bureng V. Nyombe, talked with GUNI about the changes of higher education in East African countries. Minister Nyombe considers that, although there is a lot of work to be done, the knowledge generated in this area can be directly used for economic development. He also believes that the end of brain drain from Africa begins to have positive effects in the region.

Interview with Dr Colin Brock

Accés obert
27 de des. 2008
Professor Colin Brock, UNESCO Chair holder, talked with GUNI about the responses of Higher Education to new challenges, such as multicultural student bodies and excluded population. He also reflects upon the boom of universities rankings and their impact on higher education institutions.

Interview with Charas Suwanwela

Accés obert
25 de nov. 2008
The Professor Emeritus at the Chulalongkorn University (Thailand), Charas Suwanwela, talked with GUNI about how universities in developing countries have to assume their role in making research, which is relevant in a local and global context to cover their needs. Prof. Suwanwela considers that research in developing countries can be competitive, as it is happening in India or China. He also talked about universities and social justice, democracy and human rights.

Interview with Aziza Bennani

Accés obert
20 d’oct. 2008
The Ambassador and Permanent Delegate of Morocco at UNESCO, Aziza Bennani, talked with GUNI about the importance to promote common values between the different societies. The former Secretary of State for Culture of Morocco considers that higher education must reconsider some of its aspects to promote that its students are capable of dialoguing in culturally different environments.

Interview with Konrad Osterwalder

Accés obert
1 de set. 2008
The Rector of the United Nations University (UNU), Professor Konrad Osterwalder, talked with GUNI about the new approaches of UNU to strengthen developed and developing countries’ higher education and research and how to address issues such as globalisation and mass higher education.

Interview with Budd Hall

Accés obert
1 de jul. 2008
The Director of the Office of Community-Based Research and Senior Fellow in the Centre for Global Studies (University of Victoria, Canada), Budd Hall, talked with GUNI about the new challenges for higher education in North America, such as equity, distribution of resources, globalization or sustainability. Prof. Hall also considers very important to engage universities with their local community, but without forgetting a global point of view. In this sense, universities have to provide students theoretical and practical knowledge but also skills for them to be active citizens in the interconnected global society.

Interview with Deepak Nayyar

Accés obert
1 de jul. 2008
Professor of Economics at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, Deepak Nayyar, talked with GUNI about the dangers and the opportunities created by markets and globalization in terms of their effects on values in higher education and also on the higher education system. He explained the demand for higher education in China and India, about how these countries have to act regarding the internationalisation of education and the global economy.

Interview with Peter Taylor

Accés obert
9 de maig 2008
Peter Taylor, research fellow and leader of the Participation, Power and Social Change Team of the Institute of Development Studies (University of Sussex), talked about the third volume of GUNI’s report Higher Education in the World, of which he is guest editor. He says that in order to be able to face the complex challenges of today’s world, higher education should build curricula on issues of social change and human and social development.

He participated in the roundtable on Preparing the new generation – the educative purpose and higher education curricula for human and social development of the 4th International Barcelona Conference on Higher Education "Higher Education: New Challenges and Emerging Roles for Human and Social Development" held last April.