VIRTUAL EVENT: The public good of higher education

Programme

Higher education and the public good: insights from the South

Rajani Naidoo and Talita Calitz

Funding, power relations and policy regimes entrench the belief that innovation in higher education travels in a one-way direction from rich western nations to the Global South. However, this static picture of western dominance has been disrupted by patterns of inequality occurring within and across national systems of higher education worldwide. 

In this session, Rajani and Talita will focus on the Global South, analysing the case study of higher education in South Africa as a potent force for social transformation.

Public and common goods in Japan’s higher education

Futao Huang

Futao will explore the role of Japan’s higher education as a producer of public and common goods, drawing on findings from semi-structured interviews with 16 key stakeholders at two different national Japanese universities.

He will also discuss the role of the government and explore the relations between the government and higher education institutions. He will identify the main challenges Japan faces in relation to the contributions of higher education in terms of public and common goods, and how these outcomes can be optimised.

Speakers 

• Professor Rajani Naidoo, CGHE Research Associate and Director of the International Centre for Higher Education Management at the University of Bath
• Talita Calitz, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Education Management and Policy Studies at the University of Pretoria
• Futao Huang, Professor at Research Institute for Higher Education, Hiroshima University

Links

• Centre for Global Higher Education
• Department of Education, Practice and Society

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