Critical to include HE in post- 2015 development agenda
In preparation for the International Conference on Higher Education for Sustainable Development, Nagoya 9 November 2014, and the UNESCO World Conference on ESD, Nagoya, Japan, 10-12 November 2014, IAU prepared a special issue of IAU Horizons on The role of higher education in the post 2015 Development Agenda. Download Horizons Vol. 20 N° 3, November 2014.
Critical to include HE in post- 2015 development agenda - by Damtew Teferra
The alarming news emanating from the conversations on the post-2015 development agenda is that it may – as in the current Millennium Development Goals – perilously marginalise higher education from the priority it deserves in the highly anticipated development blueprint. It is not the intention of this article to engage in a perfunctory debate on a well-grounded fact that higher education is critical to social development, poverty reduction, wealth creation and the knowledge economy. More in Horizons Vol. 20 N° 3, November 2014.