Higher education is the highest learning and training level of a national education system. In the trend of the globalization, international integration and the development of knowledge-based economy today, higher education is strongly affected by new approaches and faces up to the challenges. The renewal of higher education is essential to ensure intellectual independence, to create and advance knowledge, and to educate and train responsible, enlightened citizens and qualified specialists, without whom no nation can progress economically, socially, culturally or politically [70]. As the Declaration of the World Conference on Higher Education Higher Education in the Twenty-first Century Vision and Action (Paris, 5–9 October, 1998) emphasizes, since society is “increasingly knowledge-based (.), higher education and research now act as essential components of cultural, socio-economic and environmentally sustainable development of individuals, communities and nations.” [70] The development of higher education must therefore feature among the highest national priorities.