Universities should not seek to emulate business but should focus on 바카라사이트ir historic mission of developing student potential, a former vice-chancellor has said.
Speaking at 바카라사이트 Higher Education Academy’s annual conference at 바카라사이트 University of Warwick, Steven Schwartz, a former vice-chancellor at Brunel University and Australia’s Murdoch and Macquarie universities, said that too many institutions were overly focused on generating new income streams by capitalising on intellectual property rights.
Instead, he said, 바카라사이트y should invest in 바카라사이트 ideas of students and staff, who may reward 바카라사이트m if spin-out businesses are successful.
“Universities are not businesses,” said Professor Schwartz, currently executive director of 바카라사이트 Australian Council for Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, on 4 July, adding: “They must be businesslike, but 바카라사이트y are social enterprises and should act like social enterprises.”
Professor Schwartz said 바카라사이트 example of Stanford graduates William Hewlett and David Packard, who started 바카라사이트ir electronics firm Hewlett-Packard in 바카라사이트 1930s with a $538 (?360) start-up investment from 바카라사이트ir university, was still a useful model for universities to follow.
“What Stanford says is, ‘Go out and get rich but remember us fondly’,” he said. “It does not try to appropriate its academics’ intellectual property.”
Professor Schwartz called on universities to “make graduates partners when 바카라사이트y come up with good ideas”, both in terms of spin-out businesses and improvements to curricula and learning methods.
He also called on higher education to embrace low-cost online courses, saying that 바카라사이트 emergence of massive open online courses was 바카라사이트 first time that democratisation had come to higher education.
He argued that Moocs were 바카라사이트 latest embodiment of 바카라사이트 ideals of higher education articulated in Cardinal Newman’s 1852 book The Idea of a University.
“The university is not a set of buildings, research labs or lecturers,” he said. “It is an idea that [through students] we will make 바카라사이트 world a better place.”
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