The Future University explores new avenues opening up to universities and tackles fundamental issues facing their development. Contributors with interdisciplinary and international perspectives imagine ways to frame the university's future.

Ronald Barnett is Emeritus Professor at the Institute of Education, London.

Introduction, Ronald Barnett

I. Emerging futures

1. The Future isn't Waiting, Sheldon Rothblatt

2. Imagining the University of the Future, Louise Morley

II. Global possibilities

3. Accessing Knowledge in the University of the Future: Lessons from Australia, Leesa Wheelahan

4. The Trajectory and Future of the Idea of the University in China, Shuang-Ye Chen and Leslie N.K. Lo

5. The Idea of the University in Latin America in the 21st Century, Mario Diaz Villa

6. The Decline of the University in South Africa: Reconstituting the Place of Reason, Yusef Waghid

III. Ideas of the University

7. Towards a Networked University, Nicolas Standaert

8. The University as Fool, Donncha Kavanagh

9. Re-imagining the University: Developing a Capacity to Care, Gloria Dall'Alba

10. Creating a Better World: Towards the University of Wisdom, Nicholas Maxwell

IV. A University for Society

11. Universities and the Common Good, Jon Nixon

12. Teaching in the University the Day After Tomorrow, Paul Standish

13. The University: A Public Issue, Jan Masschelein and Maarten Simons

14. The Future of University Research in Africa, Berte van Wyk and Philip Higgs

15. Knowledge Socialism: Intellectual Commons and Openness in the University, Michael Peters, Garett Gietzen and David J Ondercin

Coda, Ronald Barnett