Global academy bends to the winds of demographic change

By Danny Dorling. Danny Dorling considers how population change influences the shape and direction of higher education in fundamental ways. There is a lot of angst about the size of the world’s human population and what those numbers mean for the future of our overstretched planet. With the United Nations predicting that by 2100 there will be 11 billion of us, academics, policymakers and others are understandably and rightly worried about food supplies, resources, the environment and sustainability. Read more...