Transformative Higher Education

Abstract

AbstractToday's higher education institutions are facing great strain and tension because of ongoing societal developments. Knowledge changed to a factor of production and theoretical knowledge gains more importance as source of innovation and basis for political decisions in highly industrialised societies. The significant shift from elite higher education in the middle of the last century towards massification of higher education by the end of it still exists in "universal higher education" debates in the 21st century (Trow 1974). Further theories concerning a university of the 21st century are examined by van Ginkel (2003, p.83), who claims that today's universities are under a mammoth transformation caused by the development of knowledge societies and economies, the all-pervasiveness of information technologies, globalisation and the debate of the public or private nature of higher education. This situation can be seen as a call for constant change and diversity.KeywordsHigh EducationHigh Education InstitutionHigh Education SystemPrivate GoodStudent EnrolmentThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.