| Abstract: | Along with the massification of higher education has come a heightened awareness of its responsibilities in regard to the whole of society and of the need for it to diversify its role. The research role, traditionally at the centre of the higher education effort, has been broadened so as to increase the emphasis on application. Constituency interest has also been diversified with increased societal emphasis on the outcome of higher education. An increasing diversity of partnerships is driving the further structural diversity of higher education. The overall importance of higher education to economic and social development worldwide is recognized everywhere. |
