The increase in the number of universities has coincided with the growth of international competition in higher education and the development of the global knowledge economy. Universities have responded to these challenges by shifting from an elite view of education to a more popularized model, from prioritizing specialized knowledge to a more holistic emphasis on general knowledge, transdisciplinary skills, and civic literacy. The basic functions of general high school education will have to be reimagined to reflect these developments in university-level education and better links between these two levels will have to be forged. The first part of this paper is an exploration of the changing views of university education. This is followed by a discussion of how the general high school curriculum is evolving in response to these changes. Finally, I offer a number of high school curriculum reform recommendations.