Higher Education in Developing Countries: Peril and Promise

Higher Education in Developing Countries

Higher Education in Developing Countries: Peril and Promise by Task Force on Higher Education and Society (World Bank, UNESCO) (2000).

“This publication reports on 18 months of research, debate, and deliberation by the Task Force on Higher Education and Society, convened by the World Bank and UNESCO, to bring together experts from 13 countries to explore the future of higher education in developing nations.”

In 1999 I began work on the communications strategy as well as editing the expert contributions for the Task Force on Higher Education and Society’s report, Higher Education in Developing Countries: Peril and Promise (2000). The brief was to unpack the report and present its findings in a web-friendly format. At the time, it was still rare to see reports made user friendly for the world’s web audience. As a survey in 2014 discovered, a shocking third of the World Bank’s publications are never downloaded, 40 per cent were downloaded just 100 times, and only 13 per cent were downloaded more than 250 times in their lifetime (The Washington Post).