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Globalisation and inequality

Developing countries are increasingly becoming integrated into the global economy. However, this integration is often based on unequal terms. All countries need to position themselves in the new global society and to pave their own road to development. These countries need to become more responsive to benefit from the global economy. Knowledge and the capacity to work with knowledge are essential tools to achieve all this.

Thus, human resources need to be developed. People need to be educated, not only more but also differently. Relying on the traditional lecture-seminar format is not enough anymore. Students need to become critical learners who are able to get the best out of knowledge and use it for their own benefit, and for the benefit of their societies.

The emergence of the global knowledge-based society implies that we have to move from:

• Terminal education TO Lifelong learning
• Knowledge-based learning TO Application of knowledge
• Discipline-based knowledge TO Integrated (multi disciplinary) knowledge
• Rote learning TO Analysis, synthesis, understanding
• Learning things just in case they may be useful TO Just in time learning
• Directive-based learning TO Initiative based learning
• Individual study TO Group work