This book offers a moral rather than instrumental notion of university education whilst
locating the university within society. It reflects a balancing of the instrumentalization of
higher education as a mode of employment training and enhances the notion of the students'
well-being being at the core of the university mission. Compassion is examined in this volume
as a weaving of diverse cultures and beliefs into a way of recognizing that diversity through a
common good offers a way of preparing students and staff for a complex and anxious world. This
book provides theoretical and practical discussions of compassion in higher education it draws
contributors from around the world and offers illustrations of compassion in action through a
number of international cases studies..
