ABSTRACT
Global higher education has always had its challenges. We've seen changing patterns of demand and delivery, higher student expectations, changing employer needs and increasingly rigorous government regulations and immigration controls. These are all placing a significant burden on all players within the academic environment – schools, colleges and universities – and the communities and countries in which they are placed.
The UPP Civic University Commission report, Truly Civic: Strengthening the connection between universities and their places, called for a strategic commitment by universities to civic engagement and a call for a new approach to adult education and widening participation. It also referenced the international impact of academic institutions and the positive contribution that universities make to an ever challenging and changing world.
In The Civic Agenda and the Globalised University: conflicting or compatible? Lamie and Gore explore the relationship between the civic agenda and internationalisation. Put forward the need to take a holistic, systemic approach to civic engagement and outline how a truly globalised university can still be civic in its mission whilst being rooted to its local and regional environment.
