Education, Training and Scientific Services
The growth in world population and the need to provide tertiary education to a larger percentage of the population has put a strain on tertiary level institutions worldwide. Many nations now face serious challenges to meet the increasing demand for education and training.
According to the Worldwatch Institute, meeting this global demand for tertiary education would require the opening of one university per week until the middle of the 21st century. Governments are also increasingly aware that competing in the global economy requires a highly skilled and sophisticated workforce.
Given this requirement, the role of education and of tertiary education in particular is now more influential than ever in what the World Bank describes as the construction of “knowledge economies”. Tertiary education is seen as central to the creation of the intellectual capacity on which knowledge production and utilisation depend.
The World Bank defines tertiary education as all post-s...
