Shanghai Statement – ‘The Future of Higher Education’

Following their first global meeting in Shanghai earlier this month, 33 higher education research and policy experts from around the world published the ‘Shanghai Statement’ calling for greater intellectual input, data, policy analysis and professional training for the world’s expanding and increasingly important higher education sector. The “International Higher Education Research and Policy Roundtable” was organised by the Center for International Higher Education, or CIHE, from Boston College in the United States, hosted by Shanghai Jiao Tong University and supported by the Innovation, Higher Education and Research for Development, or IHERD, programme of the Swedish International Development Agency. More...