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The Changing University - How Increased Demand for Scientists and Technology is Transforming Academic Institutions Internationally (Hardcover, 1991 ed.)
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The Changing University - How Increased Demand for Scientists and Technology is Transforming Academic Institutions Internationally (Hardcover, 1991 ed.)
Series: NATO Science Series D:, 59
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This collection of papers was written for a NATO Advanced Research
Workshop held at Harvard University in March 1990. The title, "The
Changing University and the Education of Scientists and Engineers:
An International Workshop," broad as it is, does not convey the
sweep of data, infonnation, opinions, and suggestions for future
research and policy choices that were crowded into two-and-a-half
days of fonnal presentations, mealtime discussions, and teatime
chats. The proposal for the workshop grew out of a research project
I had carried out that explored the policies governing the
education of foreign science and engineering students (S&Es) in
several industrialized countries, and of two countries that send
large numbers of S&E students abroad - the People's Republic of
China (PRC) and Japan (see chapter 7). In research visits to these
countries as well as to France, the United Kingdom, West Gennany,
and within the United States, I was struck by the similarity of
issues that were raised. One was the concern that there would not
be enough well-trained scientists and engineers to meet the
constantly increasing demand for them. Government officials,
industrialists, and educators repeatedly stressed that a
well-educated and -motivated work force was essential for their
economies, national security, and for society as a whole. Many of
those interviewed mentioned that universities are undergoing rapid,
systemic changes as governments and industry are calling on them to
provide human resources and intellectual capital.
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