18 January 2013
No. 1554
Director General William Dar speaking at the 27th anniversary celebrations of the Benguet State University, Philippines.
Education challenges in a globalized world “Four globalizing forces will shape the culture and organization of businesses and nations in the next 50 years – advances in science and technology; global redistribution of knowledge, power and wealth; competing political, cultural and religious ideologies; and sustainability of the physical environment.”
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t the recent 27th anniversary celebration of the Benguet State University (BSU) in the Philippines, Director General William Dar talked about these forces in the context in which universities will have to deliver educational content and services. “We have become a global village. We know what is happening on the other side of the earth instantaneously. This has irrevocably changed human experience of space and time. And yet, the information processing capability of the human brain remains more or less constant; so this global force places enormous and immediate stress on people’s ability to manage ever increasing levels of data and information,” he said of advances in science and technology.
come from increased productivity of knowledge workers, which creates increasing pressure to do more with less. “Reality is now viewed as a social construct; reality is human-made. Mass media and now social networks have made it very easy to create and globally disseminate new structures of reality,” he said, speaking about competing political, cultural, and religious ideologies. Dr Dar emphasized that while the goal of a sustainable society is a popular notion difficult to implement, especially when it impacts business and economic growth, alternative environments that do not require the earth’s ecological systems as we currently know them need to be developed.
On the global redistribution of knowledge, power, and Universities build up human capital which makes wealth, he explained how economic growth must nations and businesses more globally competitive. to page 2 ...4