Watt Higher Education Needs

Professor Richard Williams, Vice Chancellor and Principal, Heriot-Watt University

09-Jan-17 08:05

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The challenges for higher education in the 21st century are legion, arising from structural problems that orginated 50 years ago - massification, commercialisation and globalisation, to name a few. But are all stakeholders getting the best out of the present system? And are there gamechangers out there?

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