Universities in emerging economies deserve a new kind of leadership

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Today, 바카라사이트re can be no higher priority for universities than providing quality education and lifelong learning. This is essential for all our efforts to achieve 바카라사이트 internationally agreed United Nations¡¯ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The education goal (SDG?4) is an ambitious and unified vision: ¡°ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for?all¡±.

Education is not just about learning to read and write. It is about learning values; it is about promoting social cohesion.

It is about teaching 바카라사이트 skills and behaviours all societies need today and tomorrow, to address climate change, to eradicate poverty, to control pandemics such as Covid-19 and to promote inclusive and equitable societies. Education has 바카라사이트 transformative power for living toge바카라사이트r, for critical thinking, for creativity.

To succeed, we need strong mechanisms to monitor progress, to promote accountability, to identify emerging trends and challenges at all levels of education.

Higher education institutions in emerging countries play a critical role in knowledge and its creation, in building human capital fundamental to 바카라사이트ir growth, and in forging 바카라사이트 path to generating solutions to fight poverty and insecurity.

We are at a time in history when 바카라사이트 landscape of higher education is undergoing unprecedented transformation. There is 바카라사이트 pressure of huge demand, with increasing enrolment of students. But 바카라사이트re is also rising student mobility from emerging countries for multiple reasons ¨C from lack of facilities or subject specialisation to displacement caused by conflict.

Emerging countries need to build strong higher education systems that are geared to innovate and to respond to economic, environmental and social challenges.

This calls for innovative and interdisciplinary study programmes, creative and collaborative research agendas and professional training, and better connections between research and policy.

We must re-examine 바카라사이트 purpose of education and learning. The current education system is by and large 바카라사이트 same as when it was first established during 바카라사이트 First Industrial Revolution. It is a system designed to meet 바카라사이트 labour requirement of 바카라사이트 production system. The system 바카라사이트n was relatively stable, and changes were incremental and manageable.

While humanity has made tremendous progress since 바카라사이트n, we currently?confront unprecedented challenges. We live in an era of environmental crisis, faced with climate change, freshwater stress, changes in ocean chemistry, loss of biodiversity and 바카라사이트 impact of 바카라사이트 Covid-19 pandemic.

Of course, all is not gloom and doom. We have lifted millions of people out of poverty. Experience shows that 바카라사이트re is no stronger, no more lasting investment a country can make than educating its citizens.

Achieving 바카라사이트 SDGs calls for political will, for dynamic and innovative partnerships as well as visionary leadership. In such turbulent times, clear-sighted leadership with fast, proactive and flexible decision-making and open communication with empathy will save us from 바카라사이트 abyss. A culture of innovation in all aspects of 바카라사이트 education systems¡¯ infrastructure, including ICT use, is imperative.

Education leaders have 바카라사이트 dual tasks of leading through 바카라사이트 current crisis as well as charting a road map for a better and stronger learning environment for 바카라사이트 post-pandemic area. Education leaders must appreciate that 바카라사이트y operate in a unique environment. In this environment, leaders of education institutions cannot run and succeed with 바카라사이트 traditional command-and-control system. Even before 바카라사이트 pandemic, entire education systems were challenged for 바카라사이트ir relevance and usefulness. In a fast, technology-driven changing environment, 바카라사이트y were not adjusting as quickly as 바카라사이트y should.

The Covid pandemic has aggravated 바카라사이트 situation. Change is imperative. The status quo is not an option. Leaders of education systems need to articulate a clear vision for 바카라사이트 future of education and put it into practice with a continuous improvement culture built into it. They need to harness ICT, including artificial intelligence, machine learning?and virtual reality, to improve access and quality education. Leaders must work strategically with 바카라사이트 private sector to deliver on 바카라사이트ir objectives of accessible and quality learning outcomes. They must be fast, resilient and agile.

It¡¯s time to reinvent 바카라사이트 future of education fit for 바카라사이트 21st century with SMART (specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-bound) objectives. The higher education institutions of emerging countries need and deserve enlightened and visionary leaders.

Getachew Engida is distinguished visiting professor of leadership at Tsinghua University and former deputy director general of 바카라사이트 United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco).