Abstract
This paper aims to provide brief insight into the economic and sustainability challenges that higher education institutions are facing today globally. It provides a theoretical overview of key trends and challenges of higher education, relevant for the development of a sustainable and resilient European economy and society. We support our theoretical proposition by a bibliometric analysis of previous studies dealing with the 21st-century business skills and the sustainability outlook to be produced by the higher education sector. Our main findings are related to a significant rise of researchers’ interest in the topic, along with the multi-disciplinary approach being emphasized, as the academic community seeks how to contribute to the pressing issues of ensuring the integration of sustainability with employers’ requirements, related to new skill profiles, relevant for the European transformation toward a more resilient, digital, green economy and society. We evaluate the proposed course of research and provide recommendations to researchers and other higher education stakeholders interested in promoting this educational sector’s sustainability and relevance in the 21st century.
Highlights
We review the most critical challenges to higher education to provide a theoretical framework, which could help European higher educational institutions (HEIs) contribute to environmental sustainability and the creation of relevant 21st-century skills required by today’s employers
The empirical analysis is performed in two steps: the first step is based on a highlevel analysis of research publications, which could be associated with higher education sustainability and 21st-century skills
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Summary
We review the most critical challenges to higher education to provide a theoretical framework, which could help European higher educational institutions (HEIs) contribute to environmental sustainability and the creation of relevant 21st-century skills required by today’s employers. This proposition was analyzed by using the bibliometric/scientometric approach and discussed from the higher education sector and policy viewpoints. This study was motivated by the often mentioned need for transformation and digital transformation of HEIs, followed by the severe reduction of university budgets ( since the 2008–2012 period). In France, between 2013 and 2018, nineteen university clusters were created
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