Goals and Purposes of Higher Education in the 21st Century

Based on a recent workshop held by the Academia Europaea, this collection draws together essays by a number of writers in the field of higher education research. Taking as its central theme the direction in which national (and international) higher education systems are moving as we approach the 21st century, the book contains both assessments of specific higher education systems and analyzes of cross-national trends. It tackles such issues as higher education training, qua1ity assessment and university autonomy, unified/binary higher education systems, confronting changes in the socio-economic structure and higher education in an ageing society.