Volume : IV, Issue : IX, September - 2015

Higher Education in 21st Century: Global trends

Dr. Priti Chaudhari

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There is widespread recognition that skills and human capital have become the backbone of economic prosperity and social well-being in the 21st century. In contemporary knowledge intensive economies and societies, individual and societal progress is increasingly driven by technological advances. Prosperity requires nations to retain their competitive edge by developing and sustaining a skilled workforce, maintaining a globally competitive research base, and improving the dissemination of knowledge for the benefit of society at large. In this context, higher education represents a critical factor in innovation and human capital development and plays a central role in the success and sustainability of the knowledge economy (Dill and Van Vught, 2010). As recent as 40 to 50 years ago, higher education essentially referred to the traditional research universities. This picture is entirely different today. Several trends have contributed to reshaping the higher education. Today HEIs are more diversified and are closer to a patchwork model attended by larger segments of the population. Thus, higher education today is characterised by massive expansion and wider participation; the emergence of new players; more diverse profiles of HEIs, programmes and their students; oader adoption and more integrated use of communications and educational technologies; greater internationalisation, competition and signalling mechanisms; growing pressures on costs and new forms of financing; as well as new modes and roles of governance, including increasing emphasis on performance, quality and accountability. Hence, higher education has become increasingly important on national agendas and has undergone profound mutations and reforms worldwide over the past decades.

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Dr. Priti Chaudhari Higher Education in 21st Century: Global trends Global Journal For Research Analysis, Vol: 4, Issue: 9 September 2015

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