Forging effective HE systems for national development

By Mark Paterson and Nico Cloete. Developing countries face a stark choice between reforming their higher education systems to reap the benefits of a rapidly evolving global knowledge economy, or being marginalised by the new economic world order, says Jamil Salmi, the recently retired coordinator of tertiary education at the World Bank, in his latest book, The Tertiary Education Imperative: Knowledge, Skills and Values for Development. More...