Fwd: World Universities Forum

Fourth World Universities Forum
14 to 16 January 2011
Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong, China

The World Universities Forum (WUF) examines the current state
and future possibilities of the university in this era of dramatic
change. The WUF accepts proposal submissions on topics related
to this general theme or on the special theme, Asia Rising and
the Changing Architecture of Global Higher Education. This
special theme does more than correspond to the WUF's Hong
Kong venue, it also reflects the significant and increasing role of
Asia in higher education.

The WUF welcomes distinguished plenary speakers, including:
? Anthony B.L. Cheung, President, Hong Kong Institute of
Education, Hong Kong
? S. Gopinathan, Professorial Fellow, National Institute of
Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
? George Haddad, Director, Division of Higher Education,
UNESCO, Paris, France
? Shi Jinghuan, Professor and Executive Dean, Institute of
Education, Tsinghua University, China
? Hugh Lauder, Professor of Education and Political Economy,
University of Bath, UK
? William G. Tierney, Professor of Higher Education and Director,
Center for Higher Education Policy Analysis, University of
Southern California, USA
? Tapio Varis, Professor of Professional Education, University of
Tampere, Finland
? Xu Xiaozhou, Professor and Dean, College of Education,
Zhejiang University, China

Proposals may be submitted for parallel sessions, either on this
year's major focus or on the general theme of the WUF: The
current state and future role of the university. Presenters have
the opportunity to submit their papers for peer review and
potential publication in the Journal of the World Universities
Forum (http://ontheuniversity.com/journal/).

For more information, please visit the WUF website:
http://www.universitiesforum.com

Please send enquiries to: [email protected].