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UNIVERSITIES AND LIFELONG LEARNING SERIES

A new imperative: regions and higher education in difficult times

UNIVERSITIES AND LIFELONG LEARNING SERIES

Series editor:

Professor Michael Osborne (University of Glasgow)

Universities and lifelong learning analyses the external engagement activities of universities and third-level institutions and is concerned with the range of activity that lies beyond the traditional mission of teaching and research. This is an area that until now has seldom been explored in depth and has rarely if ever been treated in a holistic manner.

Lifelong learning, the arts and community cultural engagement in the contemporary university: International perspectives

Edited by Darlene Clover and Kathy Sanford

Knowledge, democracy and action: Communityuniversity research partnerships in global perspectives

Edited by Budd Hall, Edward Jackson, Rajesh Tandon, Jean-Marc Fontan and Nirmala Lall

A new imperative

Regions and higher education in difficult times

Chris Duke, Michael Osborne and Bruce Wilson

Manchester University Press

Manchester and New York

distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan

Copyright Chris Duke, Michael Osborne and Bruce Wilson 2013

The right of Chris Duke, Michael Osborne and Bruce Wilson to be identified as the authors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

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ISBN 978 0 7190 8830 8 hardback

First published 2013

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AUCEA	Australian University Community Engagement Alliance
CDG	Consultative Development Group
CEDEFOP	European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training
COAG	Council of Australian Governments
CSO	civil society organisation
CSR	corporate social responsibility
EC	European Commission
EMS	Environmental management system
ERDF	European Regional Development Fund
EU	European Union
EUA	European Universities Association
GDP	Gross Domestic Product
GFC	global financial crisis
GM	Genetically Modified
GNP	Gross National Product
GSJ	Green skills and jobs
GUNI	Global University Network for Innovation
HE	higher education
HEFCE	Higher Education Funding Council England
HEI	higher education institution
HRD	human resource development
ICT	information and communications technology
IGO	Intergovernmental organisation
IMHE	Institutional Management in Higher Education (OECD)
INGO	international non-governmental organisation
ISO	International Standards Organisation
IT	information technology
LR	Learning Region
MoA	Memorandum of Agreement
MoU	Memorandum of Understanding
NIU	Northern Illinois University
NGO	non-governmental organisation
OECD	Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
OKC	Office of Knowledge Capital (Melbourne)
PASCAL	International Observatory on Place Management, Social Capital and Learning
PFI	private finance initiative
PURE	PASCAL Universities and Regional Engagement
QUANGO	Quasi-non-governmental organisation
R&D	research and development
RCG	Regional Coordinating Group (for a PURE region)
RDA	Regional Development Agency
RDA	Regional Development Australia
RIR	Regional Innovation and Renewal
RMIT	Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University
RVR (1 and 2)	Regional Visit Review (1st and 2nd)
SMEs	small and medium enterprises
S&P	Standard and Poor rating agency
SRRR	sustaining rural and remote regions
TAFE	technical and further education
TEC	Tertiary Education Commission
THE	Times Higher Education
three Ms	Massification, Marketisation, Managerialism
TS	Tertiary system
U21	Universitas 21
UCL	University College London
UK	United Kingdom
UNCSD	United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio + 20)
UNEP	United Nations Environment Programme
UNESCO	United Nations Educational Social and Cultural Organisation
US(A)	United States (of America)
VU	Victoria University (Melbourne)

Buskerud County, Norway

Darling Downs and South West Queensland, Australia

Devon and Cornwall, England

Essex, England

Flanders, Belgium

Gaborone, Botswana

Glasgow, Scotland

Helsinki, Finland

Jmtland, Sweden

Kent, England

Lesotho (as a small whole-country region)

Melbourne, Australia

Northern Illinois, United States of America

Puglia, Italy

South Transdanubia, Hungary

Thames Gateway (south-east London), England

Vrmland, Sweden

Something extraordinary is underway around the world, the outgoing President of Tufts University and of the Talloires Network, a global coalition of engaged universities, tells us in a 2011 international volume: institutions of higher education are directly tackling community problems the engaged university is replacing the ivory tower (Lawrence Bacow in Watson et al. , outside cover and p. xx). Why, how and how far is this occurring? Community service is fully a century and a half old in the American university. Is the extraordinary something a rediscovery, as the ivory tower suffers the slow death of a thousand cuts? Yes in part; it is also something different, in a very different world.

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