Universities and the Needs of Local and Regional Communities

• Main Author: HUNTER, Howard
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 1980
• Subjects: Higher Education
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/532; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sol_research/article/1531/viewcontent/UniversitiesNeedsLocalRegionalCommunities_1980.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

In February 1980, the Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) of the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) sponsored an international conference in Paris on the subject "Higher Education and The Community: New Partnerships and Interaction". The published results of that conference, as issued by the CERI Secretariat, are disturbing in their implications for universities as centres of advanced teaching and research, for the academic freedom of individual scholars and for the autonomy of institutions of higher education.The article comments on the outlook of the centre for educational research and innovation of the organisation for economic co-operation and development.