The Challenges for Universities: Governance Models and the Reinvention of the Teaching Profession
Fecha: noviembre 2024
Carles Ramió
University, higher education, university teaching, governance, management, competitiveness
Beyond Ivory Tower. Navigating Higher Education in the Future
The objective of this document is to present a set of reflections on some of the challenges that public universities currently face. Higher education is becoming an increasingly competitive market due to the greater dynamism of private universities and, also, the potential emergence of new actors that can have a decisive influence in this area. he text focuses on two critical dimensions for the future of the public university system: on the one hand, its regulation, governance and management model and, on the other hand, the need to reinvent the teaching function of face-to-face public universities. as one of the most relevant sources of social legitimation. The new profile of students entering the University and the technological transformation demand a new paradigm that modifies the traditional teaching dynamics, which is currently one of the weakest links in higher education centers.