Higher Education and Its Regeneration - The Search for Solutions and Partners

Abstract

The article contains the main theses of the Author’s address at the international conference “University - Enterprise Partnerships in Action”, which was held in London on 22-23 June, 1995. The Author bases himself on two main assumptions, in conditions of the sudden economic and social transformations of recent decades there is an urgent need for social and economic regeneration, for co-operation between higher education and industry, which can make a significant contribution to development. In the Author’s opinion, in order to fulfil its new role, higher education in its development plans should take account of the five tendencies characteristic of contemporary higher education: the great and rapid increase and diversification of the students population, changes in the costs of funding education, the need for expanding scientific research, the use of new information and communication technologies, and the emergence of new ties between higher education and the “world of work”.