Quality versus access in expanding higher education

By Allan De Guzman. Undoubtedly, the greatest competitive challenge facing schools, colleges and universities today is adjusting to non-stop change brought about by the external environment. As representing one of the key players in national development, higher education institutions are expected to transcend limitations in their thinking and practice and eventually evolve as world-class universities. Transforming today’s higher education institutions into world-class universities has challenged top-level managers to address the need for what Jamil Salmi – when he was the World Bank's higher education coordinator – described as three complementary sets of factors: a high concentration of talent, abundant resources and favourable governance. More...