Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Foreword 9
4. Introduction 11
5. Part 1. Reflections on core values
6. Autonomy: A practice serving a purpose 23
7. The positive and fundamental value of excellence in universities 30
8. ‘Let the lightning strike!’ — Free speech and the university 35
9. Part 2. Reflections on core tasks
10. What ought we to wish from university graduates? 49
11. The student in 2040 54
12. Setting the agenda: ‘To whom are we answering’? 60
13. On the need for universities to engage in lifelong learning 65
14. Part 3. Reflections on learning and teaching
15. Diversifying the university menu 71
16. The importance of evidence-based development of teaching and learning at university 76
17. Re-thinking the higher education curriculum: Challenges, possibilities, and dreams 82
18. The university as a community in the digital age 88
19. Part 4. Reflections on the global and the local
20. Building the first global network university 95
21. A new dawn? Academia moving eastwards 101
22. In search of the South African university — Pages from a Stellenbosch diary 108
23. The labyrinth of EU research, innovation, and education policy 113
24. Part 5. Reflections on institutional logic
25. Academic enterprise as a new institutional logic for public higher education 121
26. Don’t be scared; be prepared 131
27. The idea of the university: National asset or ivory tower? 136
28. Quality assurance: What it was, is, and should be 142
29. A Hooge School en Maatschappij for our time! On the difficult relationship between two types of universities 147
30. About the authors 152