Knowledge Economy Development And The Future Of Higher Education

Knowledge Economy Development And The Future Of Higher Education Knowledge economy, development and the future of higher education. series: educational futures, volume: 10. author: michael a. peters. prophetically, almost thirty years ago jean françois lyotard forecast the end of the modern research university based on enlightenment principles. he envisaged the emergence of technical institutes in the. Alexis gibbs. education, political science. 2013. this thesis sets out to critically examine the field of higher education development, as one which is focused on socio economic inequality and welfare, and determines educational purpose in poorer,…. expand. 1. highly influenced. pdf. 3 excerpts.

Knowledge Economy Development And The Future Of Higher Education Michael peters’ knowledge economy, development and the future of higher education is the consequence of a personal voyage in university experience from the 1960s in new zealand through to positions in scotland and the university reforms brought about by tony blair’s government, and the usa most recently. Higher education institutions in a knowledge economy are expected to enable the acquisition of knowledge and development of skills needed in the business world. increased demand for higher educated workers is expected to continue in the future and higher education institutions must adequately cope with this challenge. Abstract. the concept of knowledge economy goes back to the 1960s but received renewed attention in the 1990s when first global metrics attempted to quantify the advent of the knowledge economy. these metrics focused on various inputs and their effect on the rate of economic growth. from this perspective, higher education (hed) provided major. Abstract. universities face new challenges in the knowledge economy, due to two underlying transformations. one is that universities have increasingly developed from bodies of professorial self governance bodies towards a status as ‘complete’ organisational actors, able to develop and deploy organisation level strategies.