Douglass, Larissa

The findings of the workshop on Universities and Good Globalisation focused on defining globalisation as a process that, in one way or another, affects the independence or character of universities, and affects their ability to deal with the implications of globalisation. The workshop tried to propose measures to bolster the position of universities in this context.

Thus, globalisation was examined as part of a process of privatisation in which the traditional free stance for independent inquiry and research of the universities was assessed as a function of either the nation-state or of the market economy. These two separate influences were treated with some concern but the benefits of interaction with the nation-state or the market economy were also discussed.