University challenges: Borderless higher education, today and tomorrow

Developments in the domain of 'Borderless Education' are being shaped by a number of factors, including the emergence of the 'knowledge economy,' pressures for life-long learning, and advances in the use and nature of information and communication technologies. This overview categorizes some of these tendencies, and highlights some of the challenges now confronting universities and governments. The essays that follow will reveal just how fundamental these changes are, and may yet become.