DEVELOPING WORKFORCES FOR THE 21ST CENTURY

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DEVELOPING WORKFORCES FOR THE 21ST CENTURY

• The Challenge for Education
• Sir Howard Newby

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CHALLENGES FOR HIGHER EDUCATION

• Globalisation
• Knowledge Society
• Higher Education as a key driver of the knowledge
  economy
• International benchmarks for quality and
  standards
• Market forces and competition

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THE MULTIPLE FUNCTIONS OF THE 21ST CENTURY
UNIVERSITY

• From teaching to lifelong learning
• Research global competition
• Knowledge transfer the third mission
• Social inclusion
• Local and regional regeneration
• Civil society and civic responsibility

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COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE AND DIVERSITY

• A more diverse HE
• Massification and competition
• Comparative advantage
• The need to focus

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LEARNER-CENTRED HIGHER EDUCATION

• Access and widening participation
• Lifelong learning and mass higher education
• Fundamental shift from once in a lifetime
  higher education
• Education progression
• Continuing professional development

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SUPPLY-DRIVEN vs DEMAND-LED HE

• Fees and finance
• Students as customers
• Institutional diversity and flexibility
• More flexible delivery
• Varied progression routes

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HE AND LABOUR MARKETS

• Globalisation and flexibility
• Internal vs external labour markets
• Qualification, mobility, lifelong learning
• Academic vs vocational HE?
• Towards tertiary?
• Work-based learning

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SKILLS AND EMPLOYABILITY

• Personal fulfilment and intellectual growth
• Learning outcomes
• Generic skills
• Curriculum design and development
• Progression and flexibility

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THE ROLE OF THE STATE

• How to reconcile - massification
• - quality enhancement - reduction in fiscal
  burden
• It was once the role of governments to provide
  for the purposes of universities it is now the
  role of universities to provide for the purposes
  of governments

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ACCOUNTABILITY IN HE

• Audit and monitoring
• Develop performance measures
• Performance funding
• Regulation
• Planning

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WHITHER HE?

• Diversity or hierarchy
• Public vs private
• State control vs institutional autonomy
• Regulation vs planning