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Merle Jacob & Mary-Louise Kearney
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How will higher education and research evolve in the future to produce the high-level knowledge and skilled human capital which underpin sustainable societies? This book explores challenges for the post-knowledge society and economy where major socio-economic change is occurring in tandem with advances in digital technologies. It brings together international authors to discuss scenarios against a background of transformation, including the fourth wave of globalization, demographic shifts, socio-economic inequality, and climate change. Policy-makers, institutional leaders, the academy, students, employers and society at large will find this book topical and thoughtful.

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Format PDF ● Pages 295 ● ISBN 9781527581395 ● Editor Merle Jacob & Mary-Louise Kearney ● Publisher Cambridge Scholars Publishing ● Published 2022 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 9281165 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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