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Location and Date
The 2011 World Universities Forum will be held at the Hong Kong Institute of Education in Hong Kong from January 14-16. For more information, please visit www.UniversitiesForum.com
Call for Papers
If you intend to present a paper at the conference, your participation begins with submission of a paper proposal. For information on proposals, presentation types, and other options please see http://ontheuniversity.com/conference-2011/call-for-papers/#ppt . To submit a proposal, please see http://ontheuniversity.com/conference-2011/call-for-papers/ . If your proposal is accepted, you will then need to register for the conference.
Registration
Those who submit paper proposals should register following the acceptance of the proposal. Conference delegates who do not intend to present may register at any time. For registration options, or to register for the 2010 Diversity Conference, see: http://ontheuniversity.com/conference-2010/register/.
Themes
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From Andrew Trounson and Christian Kerr in The Australian
Australia is in denial on racially motivated attacks against international students and has failed to take action to deal with the issue, an internationally respected Australian academic has told a major conference in Switzerland.
Melbourne University professor Simon Marginson, delivering a keynote address to the World Universities Forum in Davos, said the Australian government was trying to spin itself out of crisis following this month’s murder of Indian accountancy graduate Nitin Garg in a west Melbourne park. “The Australian government is in denial,” Professor Marginson told the high-powered meeting of academics. “Racist targeting is involved (in the attacks). Indian students do have a special problem. And there isn’t enough official and civil concern about international student security in Australia.”
Garg’s unsolved murder has sparked diplomatic, government and public protests in India, further weakened one of Australia’s most important education export markets and prompted a defensive response from Australia’s political leaders and Victoria Police.
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Chryssi Vitsilaki, University of Aegean, Rhodes, Greece
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Chryssi Vitsilaki is Dean of the School of Humanities at the University of the Aegean. She has a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and research interests in the sociology of education and gender studies. Her books include School and Work (Athens, 2002) and The All-Day School (Athens 2002). More…
We have many optional tours that should be both exciting and fun. Please book and pay early. The Tours have limited availability and will be confirmed on a first paid basis.
For more information and bookings please see the Conference website.
The Conference Dinner, with its horse drawn sleigh ride and dinner in the Dischma valley, should provide you with a memorable experience. Not to be missed!
For more information and bookings please see the Conference website.
Accommodation for the 2010 World Universities Forum in Davos, Switzerland may now be booked. Please see the Conference Accommodation webpage for more information.
Professor Jonathan Jansen, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
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Jonathan Jansen 
is Honorary Professor of Education at the University of the Witwatersrand and Visiting Fellow at the National Research Foundation. He is a recent Fulbright Scholar to Stanford University (2007-2008), former Dean of Education at the University of Pretoria (2001-2007), and Honorary Doctor of Education from the University of Edinburgh. He is a former high school Biology teacher and achieved his undergraduate education at UWC (BSc), his teaching credentials at UNISA (HED, BEd) and his postgraduate education in the USA (MS, Cornell; PhD, Stanford).He serves as Vice-President of the South African Academy of Science and from this vantage point currently leads three major studies on behalf of the Academy, including a inquiry on the role of the South African PhD in the global knowledge economy and another investigation on the future of the Humanities in South Africa. More…
Nigel Thrift, Vice-Chancellor, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
Nigel Thrift 
Professor Nigel Thrift was educated at Aberystwyth where he graduated with a BA Hons in Geography in 1971. After Aberystwyth he went onto gain his PhD in Geography from the University of Bristol in 1979, his DSc from the University of Bristol in 1992, as well as being granted an MA (Oxon) in January 2004. He is an Emeritus Professor of the University of Bristol and a Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford.Nigel took up his role as the Vice-Chancellor of The University of Warwick in July 2006. He joined Warwick from the University of Oxford where he was Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research. He was made Head of the Division of Life and Environmental Sciences at Oxford in 2003, prior to which he chaired the Research Committee at the University of Bristol (2001-2003) and also chaired Bristol’s Research Assessment Panel (1997-2001). More…
Jandhyala B. G. Tilak, Professor of Educational Finance, National University of Educationa Planning and Administration, New Delhi, India
Jandhyala B. G. Tilak 
Jandhyala B. G. Tilak is a professor of Educational Finance at the National University of Educationa Planning and Administration in India. He received his Ph.D. (Economics of Education) from the Delhi School of Economics; was on the research and teaching faculty of University of Delhi, Indian Institute of Education, University of Virginia and the Hiroshima University (Japan); was also on the research staff of the World Bank. He is also a Visiting Professor in Economics at the Sri Sathya Sai University; and has authored/edited ten books including Economics of Inequality in Education, Education for Development in Asia (both by Sage Publications), Educational Planning at Grassroots (Ashish), India Socio-Economic Database (Tulika) , Education, Society and Development (APH Publishers), Financing Education in India (Ravi Books), Women’s Education and Development (Garg Publishing) and Financing of Secondary Education in India (Shipra Publications), in addition to about 250 research papers published in reputed journals, and in the series of working papers of the World Bank, UNCRD, IIEP, State University of New York, NCAER. More…
Simon Marginson, Professor of Higher Education, Centre for the Study of Higher Education, University of Melbourne, Centre for the Study of Higher Education, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Simon Marginson is a Professor of Higher Education located in the Centre for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne, Australia. His work is focused on globalization and the knowledge economy, international education and education policy, with some emphasis on the Asia-Pacific region, and he has completed three reports for the OECD in these areas. His most recent books are Prospects of Higher Education (Sense Publishers, 2007); Creativity in the Global Knowledge Economy (Peter Lang, 2009) and Global Creation: Space, mobility and synchrony in the age of the knowledge economy (Peter Lang, 2010), both co-authored with Peter Murphy and Michael Peters. Forthcoming is International Student Security, co-authored with Chris Nyland, Erlenawati Sawir and Helen Forbes-Mewett. More…
Eva Egron-Polak, Secretary-General, International Association of Universities, Paris, France
Eva Egron-Polak 
Eva Egron-Polak is Secretary-General of the International Association of Universities (IAU), an international non-governmental organisation based at UNESCO in Paris, France.Bringing together Higher Education Institutions and Associations from every region, the IAU is committed to strengthening higher education worldwide by providing a global forum for leaders, undertaking research and analysis, disseminating information and taking up advocacy positions in the interest of quality higher education being available to all. More…
9-11 January 2010
Davos, Switzerland
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