东亚峰会框架下的高等教育合作与发展

东亚峰会框架下的高等教育合作与发展

新加坡国立大学副教务长　陈添顺

我们的发展是在东亚峰会的框架下进行的，我们必须要了解，现在高等教育的趋势是什么样的?我们要提出一个问题，我们要为我们的学生开发出什么样的高等教育，以便在全球化的竞争中更有竞争力?

现在我们看到在教育方面出现了一些转变，这样的转变，有两个经常变异的形式出现，就是全球化和知识社区的出现。所谓的知识社区，比如说现在有许多新的知识，它们已经得到了开发，并且有助于全球化的进程。全球化展现出一个全新的市场，这个市场很庞大，我们要在其中进行一些创新，我们要进行技术的创新。而且我们可以看到，就我们所使用的信息而言，以及就转变而言，都是非常重要的。基于这些变化，都对我们教育者提出了挑战。这样的变化，表明教育在不断演变。我们的学生要学习相应的知识，以便能够适应变化。

随着市场的变化，我们的知识创新也要不断地变化。我们的知识创新不断变化，使得我们能够顺应经济的发展，不断迈上新台阶。这就是说，我们大家可能在经济发展中处于不同的阶段，但是对于大学所扮演的角色是一致的。我们要提出一个核心的问题，我们的学生，他们的优势在什么地方?在未来的10年当中，我们的学生要作好充分的准备，以便能够迎接终身的职业生涯。这一点，刚才的发言人已经强调过了。所以我们一定要强调创新的重要性。将来很多工作可能是新型的，目前并不存在的。而现在我们所看见的一些工作，在今后也会消失。所以，我们要研究一下，其他地方有什么样的技能技巧，我们以后会出现一些什么样的变化。

在东亚区域经济发展的阶段，各个国家可能是不一样的。但是学生培养出来的能力，应该是永远都有用的。我们要进行什么样的高等教育的合作呢?如何满足这种预期呢?如何发展高等教育行业呢?由于我们现在碰到的变化如此迅速，它们对我们的文化、经济的影响是不一样的。我们要确保我们的高等教育，能够让我们的毕业生充分地应对各种各样的改变和变化。而且在这个方面要互相学习和借鉴。我们要进行小规模的合作与交流。我们要发掘一些方法，在工作层面进行一些交流的活动。

我们在具体地设计和制定一个学校的培养目标的时候，我们要给这些人一些充分的交流的机会。现在我们的合作交流的方向是非常正确的。我们要进一步加强学习借鉴的合作。我们要根据需求举行定期的会议，尤其是邀请一些负责培养目标和课程的人来参加，让他们能够参与这样的活动。这样的话，效果会更好。

谢谢大家!

附件一:陈添顺副教务长发言稿英文

Cooperation and Development of Higher Education
under the East Asia Summit

Prof.Tan ThiamSoon，Vice Provost(Education)，National University of Singapore，Singapore

As we think about cooperation and development of higher education under the East Asia Summit，it is important to understand some of the key trends driving changes in higher education today.The key question we should pose is what kind of education we need to develop for our students to face a globalised world confidently and competently，and howwe can enhance this through cooperation and development within this particular community.

Just like everything else around us，we are witnessing major shifts in the educational landscape.This titanic shift has been driven by two different and often overlapping forces—globalization and the rise of knowledge societies.The rise of knowledge societies，in particular，the many varied new technologies that have been developed have contributed greatly to the pace of globalization，and globalization itself with its huge market opportunities has been the prime catalyst for the many innovations that have come in recent years.With globalization and technological innovation come interconnectedness and rapid flows of everything，fromthe information we use and exchange，to the transactions we make and the food we eat!But this also spells a particular challenge for educators，this fast pace of change also means a constantly evolving market and our graduates need to be equipped with the right skill set and knowledge to know how to steer in that changing wind.

As the economy evolves，the demand on knowledge and innovation keep going up the ladder，and in this，the higher education institutions have a big role to play to help its graduates，and thus by extension，the economy move up the ladder and ensure that the graduates produced can stay relevant as the economy changes its focus.Each of usmay be in a different stage，but this role of the university is still the same.

In this current stage where the competition is about innovation，then the key question that should be asked iswhat should our graduates be prepared for?

One obvious point that is increasingly evident in the last decade is that all our students need to be prepared for a‘lifetime of careers'and not a‘career-for-life'.Underpinning this trend is that with innovations，many in-demand jobs of the future may not even exist today，and hot jobs today will vanish tomorrow.This is driven both by themoving outof lower level industry to less expensive locations as well as the rapid pace in which skills have become obsolete.While the stages of development of the economies in the East Asian region may not be even，this trend applies to all，though the skill set displaced may not be the same.

With this context in mind，what kind of cooperation can we envisage that can help the higher education in the region be able to cope with this expectation，and in this process help to develop the higher education in the region?

As the changes are coming fast and all of us are reacting in different ways because of our economic and cultural differences，to ensure that the education delivered can help our graduates to be ready for these changes，it is important that we strengthen our dialogue and learn fromeach other，filtering out some of the best practices that we can then adopt in our own curriculum.In a smaller grouping such as this，there are shared values and thismakes some of the cross learning easier.A summit of the nature we are having now is one such helpful forum.

More importantly，we need to think of ways to strengthen the exchange at the working level，where the people who are actually doing the design and delivery of the curriculumcan have this exchange.The healthy exchange of academic and administrative staffs amongst partner universities in this region in the last5 years is a testament that this is the right direction.But as the global competition heats up，we need to further strengthen thismutual learning.A regular conference of key people involved in the development of curriculum to share and exchange ideas and experiences is something worthwhile to pursue.

附件二:陈添顺副教务长简历

陈添顺，新加坡国立大学土木工程系教授，副教务长，分管教育。协助校长制定学校教育方针政策，确保高标准学术研究和教学质量;兼管注册办公室、招生办、教学发展中心和教育科技中心。曾获得获美国试验材料学会C.A.Hogentogler奖、日本岩土工程学会颁发的最佳研究论文奖等。