Ethics in Higher Education: Values-driven Leaders for the Future

192 Ethics in Higher Education: Values-driven Leaders for the Future

Multiculturalism

and Inclusiveness

Incorporation and legitimisation of

non-discriminatory, non-racial,

non-western ways of knowing and

learning. Promoting the ethics of

inclusiveness and rejecting the

politics of exclusion. Challenges

what is taught, how it is taught and

the knowledge categories used in

the process.

Soudien

(2013)

Makoele

(2014)

Staffing challenges

Addressing the challenge of ageing

academic senior staff members and

researchers. Challenge of the slow

growth in the number of emerging

academics and researchers.

HESA (2011)

DHET (2015)

CHE (2016)

(Staffing

chapter)

GLOBALISATION

Knowledge

Economy

Defined as the use of knowledge to

generate tangible and intangible

value. Knowledge will be used by

decision support systems in

universities and in various fields

and generate economic value.

Requires that rules and practices

that determined success in the past

will need rewriting in an

interconnected, globalised economy

where knowledge resources and

innovation are crucial.

Pew Research

Centre (2012)

Scott &

McKellar

(2012)

Altbach et al.

CHE (2016) –

Chapter 1