Let's Talk about Money: the Economics of Ethics in Higher Education

By Christoph Stückelberger, Globethics.net President and Founder

Let's talk about money! "Show me your budget and accounts and I will tell you your ethical values" is a simple impact measurement rule. How much does a higher education institution spend on salaries, on buildings, on the discretionary fund of the Vice Chancellor, on marketing, on scholarships for poor students, on community outreach, on travel? And what is the national budget for education of a country? Financial constraints are often at the root of unethical praxis in universities and in the education system as a whole. Therefore, in order to transform higher education to become more ethical, we need to understand and influence its economic foundations.

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For its fifteenth anniversary and with a clear objective in mind, to integrate ethics in higher education to transform societies, Globethics.net has a new look, with a new logo and visual identity.

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World Teachers' Day: 5 October 2019

Global Ethics Day: 16 October 2019

Open Access Week: 21-27 October 2019

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Article of the month: The dazzling darkness of God's triune Love Hans Urs von Balthasar argued that "not only the faith but the heart, too, is wrapped up in a spiritless, conscientious and ultimately Pharisaic practice, a religion of dogmas and an enthusiasm for dogmas (the more that are defied, the better), a zeal for everything that can be seen, that is limited, calculable, and controlled."

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Reserve your place now: Ethics in Higher Education for Teaching Professionals When: 16 September 2019  Where: Online What: Online course

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The Value of Critical Knowledge, Ethics and Education
This book introduces six important conceptual tools developed by philosophers. The author develops each particular view in the different chapters with the aim to constitute at the end a concise, interesting and easily readable whole.

Spirituality 4.0 at the Workplace and FaithInvest - Building Bridges
This book contains is the report of two International Conferences organised by the Geneva Agape Foundation, the World Council of Churches and the ACT Alliance on 20-22 January 2019 in Geneva, Switzerland.