What do you picture when you hear the phrase ‘equal education for all’? I guess that the vision you embrace is often framed by your context. For some ‘equal education for all’ means gender equality, for others it refers to children affected by conflict or refugee situations. For me, working in South Africa, it means […]

Editor’s note: This article is part of a series on how to combat inequalities in participation in higher education.    Systemic barriers to accessing higher education (HE) are restricting who benefits from globalisation while fuelling the rise of populist forces across the globe. UNESCO has recognized the problem. One of its 2015 lifelong learning goals […]

  The main challenge for higher education in 2017 is to discern how to educate citizens in a world in which the political philosophy of liberalism, the cornerstone of  modern universities, is increasingly challenged by populist and nationalist movements. Universities are a relatively recent invention in the 200,000 or so years  in which humans, in […]