Modern Border Security
This chapter is an address by the late Rt Hon Bruce George OBE which was given to an international conference on ‘Integrated Border Management’ in the Republic of Moldova in 2007. Since then the issue of ‘border control’ has become a central feature of gl
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Populism and Higher Education Curriculum Development: Problem Based Learning as a Mitigating Response “Writing in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic it is arresting to read a book that identifies the challenge of a totally different type of pandemic – populism – and the threat which it poses to the academic world. As the authors say, ‘it is difficult to escape the conclusion that the majority of graduates may be as vulnerable to populist rhetoric as nongraduates precisely because they are not engaged in a process of consciousness raising through their curriculum’. This represents a grave indictment of Higher Education to which the book offers insights from a variety of perspectives arguing that the curriculum and the learning process need to respond in a vigorous way engaging both teacher and learner with the flood of ‘isms’. This view is echoed by European Rectors in their Vienna Declaration that there is an urgent need to combat manifestations of populism and ‘strive to prevent and work against’: ‘post-truth explanations – increasing inequalities, nationalism, racism, anti-Semitism, intolerance, polarisation, and radicalisation as well as pseudo-science and pseudo-facts and other threats to democratic and scientific culture’. Problem Based Learning may not be the total antidote but if it is rigorous it does instill a recognition that all evidence needs to be interrogated systematically and thoroughly and that solutions to complex problems can rarely be encapsulated by simple slogans. This is a timely, thought provoking book precisely because it is searching for a type of academic vaccine to the undermining threats of populism, which will require wholehearted engagement to achieve.” —Ilan Alon, Professor, University of Agder, Norway “In the post-truth and populism era, this book takes current controversial topics, including BREXIT, globalization and the counter forces of nationalism and protectionism, sustainable development, the impact of Artificial Intelligence – and asks whether a genuine research based, problem oriented, learner-centred approach provides a way forward. A must read for scholars and entrepreneurs that feel and experience the challenge.” —Christian Felzensztein, PhD, International Scholar & Entrepreneur, Spain, and Former Dean´s Chair, New Zealand
“John Reilly and Romeo Turcan have crystallised what people working in and around higher education have begun to feel. In this book, the seismic shifts affecting the top tiers of academe are laid bare and their consequences on the sector explored. The range of voices brought together in the volume lead to recommended priorities and possible pathways for those engaged in curriculum design, learning development, research, and research dissemination.” —Dr Simon Haslam, Visiting Fellow, Durham University Business School, UK “Timely, sharp and inspiring! In today’s chaotic world, this book dispels the clouds to let us see the sun. Authors provide unique opinions and answers to major issues with which universities globally have to contend with in the tsunam
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