Last March, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) released “Transforming Higher Education: Global Collaboration on Visioning and Action.”
Here are the “Guiding principles to reshape the future of higher education”:
“The roadmap proposes seven guiding principles that are interlinked and mutually reinforcing:
- Committing resources to equity and pluralism.
- Promoting the freedom to learn, teach, research and cooperate internationally.
- Fostering inquiry, critical thinking and creativity.
- Establishing a human-centred role for digital technologies and artificial intelligence
- Embracing an ethic of collaboration and solidarity.
- Centring sustainability, stewardship and regeneration.
- Supporting enriched understandings of quality, excellence and relevance.”
It seems to me the current administration is headed in a very different direction that UNESCO’s guiding principles. Food for thought.
