Call for papers - Higher Education and its Principal Mission: Preparing Students for Life, Work, and Civic Engagement

The 11th International Workshop on Higher Education Reform will take place from August 25 to 27, 2014 at Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland (Canada). As part of the ongoing discussion about changes in Higher Education (HE) and HE reform, the Workshop will focus on issues concerning the most important target group and resource of HE students.

Presentations are invited, and discussions will primarily focus, on themes related to reforms and innovations regarding accessibility and affordability of post-secondary studies, conditions and modes of learning, the transition from study to work, and, for adult students, the integration of higher education with other aspects of their professional, personal and civic life. As the relationship between HE and labor markets and employment systems is changing and the borders of HE expanding, there are many new institutional innovations, programs, forms of learning, and transition mechanisms and routes both into HE, from HE to the world of work, as well as from employment and domestic and civic duties back into HE.

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