The New University Thought Trends

"The universities and educational institutions play an important role in today's world characterized by the challenges that poses the knowledge society, a strategic role in the transition from one paradigm to another more dynamic, where economic development and conditioned by social factors is unavoidable, such as having to do with the progress of the investigation and the progress of science and technology? With the emergence of a new model imposed by today's knowledge society, academia, its agencies and people involved therein, are committed to facilitate adjustments, alterations and major alternatives in its structure, to make the scholarship, of teaching, research and extension, the basis for change to induce a new model of socio-economic development. This step is platform and record the ideas of Martí, when nearly a century taught us that the new world a new university belongs to the express?: "In times theology, theological college. In time scientists, scientific university?. (J. Martí 1963: T8 34)

The developments today's world is experiencing economic, educational, social, political and cultural, together with the great advances in science, technology and information in these times has produced a new socio-historical context where human society every day must embrace change and challenges imposed by the information society and knowledge. These important changes have impacted the university education system in the world by establishing a new philosophical conception of teachers and institutions of higher education. This reality leads to the emergence of new requirements and management practices for the teacher to respond efficiently and effectively to the changes we experience today in this sector. The versed in the area: Daniel Bell wrote his book in Spanish universities were investigated very little. Today the reality is different: The search for scientific and technical is composed an important part of the regular fit and universities, but did not achieve in quantitative terms, the average production levels, we can say that most university teachers applies to the production of knowledge. But now, universities are not the only institutions that produce knowledge.

Not since its creation in the Middle Ages, they have been in exclusive and in times of deep crisis of the universities, as in the eighteenth century, much of the technical creation took place outside thereof. But from the second third of the twentieth century, especially after the Second World War, when scientific research is addressed systematically by arms companies and other non-university institutions, producing as much or more knowledge in the academies .