IAU launched Volume 27, no.1 of IAU Horizons during this webinar and invited four of the authors to join the conversation on what is at stake for the future of higher education.
To enrich and develop conversations on the future of higher education, we asked the following questions:
What they believe is essential for the future of higher education?
What key opportunities to pursue?
What key challenges to confront? and finally
Do we need to reinvent higher education?
Moderators:
Hilligje Vant’Land, PhD, IAU, Secretary-General
Trine Jensen, Manager, HE & Digital Transformation, Publication and Events
Speakers:
Kiyoshi Yamada, Chancellor, Tokai University, Japan
Fadlo R. Khuri, President, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Cara Aitchison, President and Vice-Chancellor of Cardiff Metropolitan University, Wales, United Kingdom
Isaac Olusola Fajana, Vice Chancellor, National University of Lesotho, Lesotho
WHEC2022
The theme of the third UNESCO World Higher Education Conference (WHEC2022) is: Reinventing Higher Education for a Sustainable Future.
The conference concept note introduces the complex context in which higher education institutions operate worldwide. This context is one of rapidly changing economies, one faced with important environmental challenges, one shaped by the rapid pace of technological developments.
The assumption is that a new vision is needed, a reinvention of what higher education will mean in the future and for society’s future. Therefore, UNESCO is framing the conversation around the following questions: If higher education and the university appeared today:
What would they look like?
Who would participate and complete their higher education?
How would participants learn?
Where would they learn?
What knowledge, skills, competencies, and values would they need to develop to work, become global citizens, and live with dignity?
What would meaningful research and knowledge production involve?
Who would guide these changes: institutional leaders, policymakers, researchers, students, professors, employers, community leaders, civil society groups?
Watch the recording here on the IAU Youtube Page.