Mobilizing for sustainable development -- Constructing knowledge societies: new challenges for tertiary education -- Strengthenig capacity building in research in developing countries - the role of higher education -- Reforming higher education in a changing society - the experience of South Africa -- Distance education and open learning in Asia and the Pacific - a priority area for action - a possible solution to the expansion of higher education -- Higher education in countries in transition -- Reforming the reforms - transformations and crisis in Latin American and Caribbean universities -- Requisite variety, liberal democracy, fair trade: higher education ina new century.