Right to make use of to senior teaching be obliged to be a global main apprehension

Giants movement approaches grow older and begin to retire. It is time for a new generation to take responsibility for the promotion and expansion of post-secondary education as a universal opportunity, that the battle for education as a public good, public accountability and inalienable human right.

The evidence on the two major events in international education has recently been shown that the student movement is ready and able to take the challenge.

Over the past decade, as higher education in Europe moved from an elite privilege to a mass phenomenon, institutions and government strained to radically change their admissions statistics. However, access to higher education still tends to stay in the upper and middle strata of society something.

The next step - from mass to universal higher education - requires imagination, vision and, most importantly, the courage of the heads of institutions and governments. Simply speaking, the universities can no longer afford to behave as elite institutions and governments can no longer afford them.

The main events in Thailand and Canada

During September and October, two events occurred on opposite sides of the world, with remarkable alignment between their results and the purpose of their participants.

In Chiang Mai in Thailand, the third Asia Europe Education Workshop was organized around the theme "Beyond the Academic Benchmark - social excellence in higher education" of the Asia-Europe Foundation. Shortly after that, in Montreal, Canada, the European Network Access organized the first World Congress on access to post-secondary education.

In Thailand, a small, carefully selected group of leaders of academia and industry, researchers and students from Asia and Europe discussed common challenges to achieve 'social excellence "- a term used to encompass everything from access and support for employment and civic responsibilities graduates,

These questions are all the more challenging in the face of intense international competition between states and universities and at a time when the world media gives so much confidence academic ranking of universities.

As countries and universities can become leaders in social responsibility, and any pressure put on them to produce tiny number of specialized graduates?

In Montreal, it was a much larger gathering drawn from the approach movement globally engaged in deep discussion about how post-secondary education can become a real prospect of a greater number of people in the world as possible. This incredibly broad agenda covered issues of financial mechanisms and recruitment strategies of science in society for children and recurring questions of gender equality in higher education.