The Age-Friendly University

HERC director Professor Maria Slowey has published a chapter in Higher Education Reform: Looking Back - Looking Forward(eds. Zgaga, Teichler, Schuetze, & Wolter, 2015, Peter Lang). The central focus of this monograph is the concept of higher education reform in the light of an international and global comparative perspective. After decades of far-reaching reform, higher education around the world has profoundly changed and now has to face the challenges of the present. This volume takes a close look at these changes, the drivers of change, their effects and possible future scenarios. In their contributions the authors discuss a variety of basic concepts: learning and teaching in higher education; financing and quality assurance; governance change; massification vs. equity and equality; internationalization and mobility, the implementation of lifelong structures in higher education.

 Professor Slowey’s chapter on age-friendly higher education is titled ‘Intergenerational Equality and Higher Education: Towards an Age-Friendly Higher Education?’ DCU, in partnership with Arizona State University and Strathclyde University, will host the first international age-friendly universities conference ‘Engaging Ageing’ on November 2nd and 3rd 2015.