Global Higher Education Forum (GHEF) 2011

Global Higher Education: Reflecting on the Past, Designing Sustainable Futures

13 ‐ 15 December 2011

Sub - Themes

Reflecting on past discussion
- Higher education access and equity
- Effects of global recession on higher education
Taking stock of plans constructed/abandoned
- Higher education regionalisation and harmonisation
- Staff/student mobility
- Attracting global talent
Sustainable futures
- Indigenous knowledge
- Advance civilisation
- Priority on humanity and nature
Education for rapid global socio‐cultural change‐beyond “business‐as‐usual”
- “The truly strategic of the 21st century”
- Futures in higher education: Futures studies courses‐ cases and designs
- Futures of higher education: Diverse alternatives from around the globe
- Inclusive higher education for the “bottom billion” and the most vulnerable
Education for rapid global socio‐cultural change‐beyond “business‐as‐usual”
- “Welcome to postnormal times”
- Complexity, creativity, imagination, innovation
- Transdisciplinary, integral studies, postnormal studies
- Role of media and civil societies in creating new knowledge and learning
Higher education to sustain a fragile planet
- “Pedagogy for sustainable futures”
- Impact of climate change on higher education futures
- Eco‐logical education
- Higher education in climate‐change vulnerable regions

Keynote Speakers

Prof. Sohail Inayatullah, Tamkang University

Publication

Quality Assurance and University Rankings in Asia (Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia & IPPTN)
Higher Education and Human Capital Development between Malaysia and CLV Countries: Towards Strategic Partnership and Alliances (IPPTN)
Development of Higher Education and Its Future (IIUM Press & IPPTN)
Diversity of Higher Education Models (IIUM Press & IPPTN)

Collaborators

Organisers

Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia (MoHE)
Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM)
World Futures Studies Federation (WFSF)

Intellectual Support

International Association of Universities
Association of African Universities (AAU)
Right Livelihood College (RLC)

Secretariat

National Higher Education Research Institute (IPPTN)

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Contact Us

GHEF Secretariat:
National Higher Education Research Institute (IPPTN) Block C, Level 2, sains@usm,
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MALAYSIA

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