Initiatives for promoting ESD in Japan and China: Through a comparative lens
Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) has been emerging as an essential approach for the global society to promote sustainable development since the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development held in Rio de Janeiro in…
Lifelong learning: The role of the university in a crowded and diversified landscape
The need for lifelong learning and continual upskilling is well recognised in modern life. Most educators and policy makers would acknowledge that the older model of pre-employment training does not fully meet current needs, due…
Re-thinking norms and practices in a changing learning space
On 18 March 2020 Malaysia went into full lockdown to curb the spread of COVID-19. At that time we were just about to enter the second half of the academic semester, and classes were suspended initially…
Sustaining gains in teacher education: Strengthening teacher quality in the Philippines
This article discusses the national impact of a global challenge in higher education, particularly in teacher education, from the institutional perspective of a country’s leader in the field. As the country’s National Center for Teacher Education,…
Conditions for Societal Progress and the Processes that Contribute to Them
The nature of human progress to modern prosperity is that such processes of action take place in forms of industry. In the opening series of evening lectures to mark the inauguration of The HEAD Foundation…
Higher Education and the Role of Critical Thinking
Perhaps the greatest policy challenge in higher education is that a society’s universities share among them the responsibility of acting as a society’s “brain” – in other words, the society’s capacity to think through its…
