Future of universities and the need for social innovation

In preparation for the IAU Global Meeting of Associations 6, this issue - IAU Horizons, 21, 1 - offers reports on IAU priority areas, new projects and initiatives, especially LGEU, and upcoming events and conferences.
By Dzulkifli Abdul Razak. Future of universities and the need for social innovation
University essentially can be viewed as no more than a platform or a vehicle to organise and deliver “education” as a public good, just like a hospital delivers health care services. Taken this way, there are social institutions creatively designed for the advancement of the community as the overarching worldview. In other words, they are social innovations intended to cope with the changing environment as well as the challenges it poses. For this reason, they are deeply committed to the well-being of members of the community and base the values and norms that they acculturated to enable quality of life to emerge from them in meeting the need of the generations to come. In that sense, they are “whole”, “universal” and “forward-looking” in conjecturing up the idea of learning with the framework of education. The aspiration is to minimally meet the Delors’ four pillars of learning, namely: learning to know, learning to do, learning to be and learning to live together. Download IAU Horizons, 21, 1.