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

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Democratisation
of knowledge
and access

The massive increase in the

availability of ‘knowledge’ online

and the mass expansion of access to

university education in developed

and developing markets means a

fundamental change in the role of

universities as originators and

keepers of knowledge.

MacGregor

(2014)

Scott &

McKellar

(2012)

CHE (2016)

Chapter 1

Sustainability as
Social Movement

The responsibility of the university

towards solving local and national

socio-economic problems.

The university is seen to have a

societal/global purpose.

Green paper

(2012)

NDP (2012)

CHE (2005)

Digitalisation/
Rise of ICTs

Digital technologies will transform

higher education and will transform

the way education is delivered and

accessed, and the way ‘value’ is

created by higher education

providers. Includes new forms of

delivery i.e. MOOCs and open

learning. Movement towards the

virtual university.

Duderstadt

(2009)

Innovation Improvement of innovative
knowledge production required to
survive and thrive in the 21st
century. Change in the model of
how we think about learning and
incorporate innovation. Increased
linkages with industry and greater
demand for the commercialisation
of research.

Jenvey (2014)