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Education is an essential building block that has potential to help nations gain awarness of the changing global fundamentals of the Global Age. In addition, through education, nations also gain necessary knowledge, which collectively empowers them to face the upcoming global challenges of the Global Age with confidence and clarity. Amidst the changing global fundamentals of the emerging Global Age, the need for relevant, reliable, compatible, and effective global education is becoming essential and critical to manage the increasing turbulence across nations. This chapter addresses the need for effective education, its challenges, as well as its risks.
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Pandya, J. (2012). Global Academia. In: The Global Age. Topics in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, vol 17. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1260-7_34
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