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Going Global 2013 #GOINGGLOBAL
05 Mar 2013
Dubai - World Trade Centre
Going Global is an annual conference hosted by the British Council, offering an open forum for global leaders of international education to discuss issues facing the international education community. Since its inception in 2004, Going Global has grown from a bi-annual event in the UK to an annual event travelling the globe.
Each year it attracts over 1,000 registered delegates from across the tertiary (further and higher) education sectors and a variety of other industries with perspectives on international education.
Programme
Day 1 - 05 Mar 2013
07:00
Dubai - Pre Conference
08:30
B2) THE World Reputation Rankings of 2013: the official worldwide launch
Phil Baty
Simon Pratt
08:30
B3) Education hubs: the third generation of internationalisation?
Chair: Professor Geoffrey Rodgers,
Dr Warren Fox, Dr Jane Knight, Lucky Moahi, Tengku Azian Shahriman, Dr Eden Y Woon
08:45
B4) understanding employability skill gaps: a workforce planning study
08:45
B1) Growing global graduates UK universities equipping graduates for the future
10:00
1.0 Global Education:Knowledge-based economics for 21st century nations
Chair: Prof. Sir Drummond Bone
Dr Jo Beall, Dr Wafi Dawood, Sally Dicketts, Dr Talal Abu-Ghazalah, Dr Mohammed Fathy Saoud
10:30
2.0 Opening ceremony
HE Sheikh Nayahan Mabarak Al Nahayan, Rt Hon. David Willetts, Martin Davidson CMG
11:30
3.2 The university in the 21st century: innovate, or die!
21st century: innovate or die!
Martin Dean, Prof. Precious Kassey Garba, Prof Pamela Gillies, Chair: Michael Stevenson, Pat Killingley
13:30
3.3 Global Launch: Intercultural skill needs: what are employers looking for?
13:30
3.1 Local challenges, local solutions: what roles for indigenous and local knowledge
13:30
3.4 Outward mobility: institutional strategies to address the opportunities and challenges
13:30
3.5 Higher education network, theory, practice, impacts
13:30
3.6 Does international collaboration really work?
14:15
4.2 Transnational education: the student experience
Chair: Tim Gore, Will Archer, Leigh Anne Jone-Kohsla and Elizabeth Shepherd
14:30
4.1 Creating conditions for jobs and growth in a global economy
14:30
4.3 Turkey session: land of new opportunity for partnerships in knowledge and innovation
14:30
14:30
4.5 Your knowledge, my knowledge, our knowledge?
15:30
4.6 Rankings, classifications and the information needs of MENA higher education
Phil Baty, Dr Allan Goodman, Dr Tayeb A Kamali
16:15
5.1 What role, if any, can the private sector play in higher education?
Chair: Scott Jaschik
Pawan Agarwal, Professor Orlando Albernoz, Professor Joshua Ka Ho Mok, Professor Abdul Razak Dzulkifli
17:00
5.4 Soft Power: higher education and cultural diplomacy
Chair Kim Catchside, Prof. Dr Mukhtar Ahmed, MArtin Davidson, Dr Li Mingjiang, Dr Dorothea Ruland
17:00
5.2 Driving China's economy:can education deliver?
17:00
17:00
5.5 Quality assurance in higher education: collaboration for impact in the MENA region
17:00
5.6 English language proficiency
Day 2 - 06 Mar 2013
09:00
6.5 University and industry links: case studies in innovation
Chair: Dr David Docherty
Dr Seddik Abdel Salam, Professor Richard Davies, Dr Gregory Makrides, Dr Rolando Vargas Vallejos
09:00
6.1 Governments as strategic actors in education
Chair: Ehsan Masood
Professor Abdullah Hasan Alabdulgader, Noor Amna Malik, Amany Moemen, Dr Fahoum Shalabi
09:00
6.2 How have imported systems of quality assurance met the challenges MENA?
09:00
6.3 Higher education in countries emerging from conflict
09:00
6.4 Education re-imagined: what today's trends tell us about the future of learning
09:00
6.6 Editing fruit: do international standards make sense?
10:45
7.1 21st Century nations:no place for the humanities?
Chair: Professor Michael Worton,
Dr Jo Beall, Professor Martin Hall, Santiago Iniguez de Onzono, dr Muhammad Nizamuddin
10:45
7.2 Digital partnerships to widen access to knowledge
Chair: Dr William Lawton
Martin G Bean, Dr Tayeb A. Kamali, Oliver Urughart Irvine
10:45
7.3 Latin America: does internationalisation actually deliver?
10:45
10:45
7.5 Quality assurance in transnational education: changing approaches to meet stakeholders needs
10:45
7.6 Strengthening research through international collaboration
13:00
8.3 Does the economy drive education or does education drive the economy?
13:00
8.4 Why do you need higher level skills?
What's on now:
13:00
8.5 HE and societal transformational role: international collaboration in times of conflict and unrest
13:30
8.2 The shape of things to come: the evolution of transnational education
14:15
8.6 Strategic internationalisation and partnerships: institutional and national perspectives
14:30
9.1 Universities as anchors: how to build effective local partnerships
Chair: Pradeep Mair
Professor Dr Murat Barkan, Professor Martin Hall, Mr Martin Prince, Dr Junaid Zaidi
14:30
9.2 The demographic dividend: How HE in South Asia is reshaping the future
14:30
14:30
14:30
9.6 Higher education and economic prosperity benefits and tension
16:15
9.3 Developing knowledge of international collaboration economies: the role of the international collaboration
16:30
Going Global 2013 Closing Plenary
17:00
Interview: Bill Rammell
Vice-Chancellor of Bedfordshire University
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