The FINANCIAL — The British Council launched of its e-book Grand Challenges in Asia-Pacific Education, an analysis of some of the most pressing issues that will impact upon and shape regional education provision in the coming years, according to British Council.
Written by a renowned group of global education experts and with a foreword by celebrated movie producer and educationalist Lord (David) Puttnam, the e-book will provide invaluable reading for policy makers, university and business leaders, teachers, academics, and anyone with a vested interest in regional growth and development.
Grand Challenges in Asia-Pacific Education is available to view, read and download free at www.britishcouncil-educationchallenges.com
Emanating from the British Council’s widely successful Global Education Dialogue (GED) conference series, the compendium of essays – which encompasses issues as diverse as post-massification in China, tertiary sector privatisation in Myanmar, regional R&D growth, the future of the humanities and gender inequality in regional university management – will grow as other internationally renowned GED speakers contribute further chapters to the publication in the coming months and years.
“This e-book is testament to the British Council’s policy and intellectual capacity across the education sector, as well as its ability to bring together global thought leaders to explore collaborative solutions to the challenges that must be overcome to ensure future stability and prosperity in Asia,” said Dr Halima Begum, Director of East Asia Education at the British Council.
“The 21st Century is set to be the Asian Century, and it is in the realm of education that its challenges will be met,” added Lord Puttnam, the UK Prime Minister’s Trade Envoy to Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and Burma. “Just how will the continent manage? Can a region still in the throes of development successfully shape a future in which innovation is the only viable path to sustainability?”
“This collection of essays throws a fascinating light on some of these questions as we approach 2015, a key year for ASEAN integration,” continued the award-winning movie producer. “I’m convinced that the spirit of human imagination has yet to reach its peak, and little doubt that it is from within the great Asian continent that the next tectonic shifts in education will emerge.”
“The region’s future and its capacity to become an ocean of innovation are being shaped today, tomorrow and every day in the classrooms, lecture theatres and online platforms of Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, and Shanghai, Hong Kong and Hanoi. On the success of those endeavours, all our futures depend,” said Sir Michael Barber, Chief Education Advisor at leading education services company Pearson, and author of the chapter on leadership and mutual prosperity in Grand Challenges in Asia-Pacific Education.
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