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| Autor/inn/en | Roberts, Liam; Ajai-Ajagbe, Patrice |
|---|---|
| Institution | Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) (United Kingdom) |
| Titel | Higher Education and the Millennium Development Goals: Where Are We Coming from, and Where Are We Going? |
| Quelle | (2013), (8 Seiten)
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| Sprache | englisch |
| Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Monographie |
| Schlagwörter | Higher Education; Development; International Cooperation; College Role; Research; Partnerships in Education; Educational Finance; Financial Support; Capacity Building; Organizational Change; Foreign Countries; Africa; Canada; United Kingdom; Caribbean |
| Abstract | In 2000, the United Nations announced a new approach to addressing some of the world's most pressing development challenges. The approach was to establish eight specific development goals, around which the world's governments, major development bodies, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and civil society could all coordinate. The logic was that, when working together, society could collectively make significant progress towards improving people's livelihoods -- and perhaps even abolish some conditions of underdevelopment altogether -- by a target date of 2015. These eight targets were termed the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Although higher education (HE) was never explicitly involved in the MDGs as either a development goal in its own right, or as a potential agent to address other development goals, there is evidence of universities and research institutions playing a huge role in development terms. As teaching institutions, universities are responsible for producing the engineers, health specialists, teachers, policymakers, technologists, and scientists whose knowledge and leadership are needed to improve people's lives. As research institutions, universities have enormous power to generate the cutting-edge knowledge required to contend with issues of food security, disease, climate and environmental change, and the effects and causes of poverty. This report examines how has the HE sector been involved in explicitly addressing the MDGs over the past decade. (ERIC). |
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| Erfasst von | ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC |
| Update | 2024/1/01 |
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