Session 1: The future of higher education: challenges and policy directions

• The creation of the future; new directions in British higher education - David Lammy
• Futures thinking and reform in tertiary education  - Mario Amano
• The future of higher education: Challenges and policy directions. The EU perspective - Ján Figel

 

Session 2: The future of access and attainment: some findings from the CERI project on the future of higher education

• Demographic challenges: some perspectives for the future - Stéphan Vincent-Lancrin

 

Session 3: New vehicles for enhancing access and achievement in higher education

• Diversification in French tertiary education since 1970 - a forward looking perspective -  Claude Sauvageot
• The Ongoing Quest for Quality Access in US Tertiary Education: Dual Enrollment and Developmental Education - Thomas Bailey
• Leveraging ICT for pedagogy: individual and institutional opportunity spaces - Michelle N. Lamberson

 

Session 4: The future of access and attainment: challenges and opportunities

A: How might new technologies and pedagogies contribute to quality access in the future?

• ICT for lifelong leaning - Maruja Gutiérrez Díaz
• The Internet, Information and Innovation - Malcolm Read
• The impact of technology and its implication for the future - Hye-Kyung Yang

B: Sector differentiation, student achievement and quality in higher education

• Institutional diversity: some trends and some hypotheses - Richard Yelland
• What role for private higher education in mass systems - Pedro Texeira
• The differentation of German higher education and the specific impact of the "Excellenzinitiative" -  Stefan Bienefeld

C: Diverse equity challenges for the future

• Taking Identities Into account access policies - Gaële Goastellec
• Disability in higher education : a key factor for improving quality and achievement - Peter Evans

 

Session 7: Impact of globalisation on higher education: towards convergence or sustained diversity?

• European Responses to Globalisation in Higher Education Convergence and Diversity - Marijk van der Wende
• Quality Access in Japanese Higher Education and Its Challenges - Tatsuya Sakamoto

 

Session 8: Quality higher education in the era of globalisation

A: Quality assurance and learning outcomes: what next?

• Quality assurance in higher education – its global future - Richard Lewis
• Lessons from the collegiate learning assessment longitudinal study in the U.S. - Richard Arum
• OECD feasibility study for an assessment of higher education learning outcomes (AHELO): directions for work - Karine Tremblay

B: International mobility and innovation: future prospects

• What future for program and institutional mobility? - Grant McBurnie
• Internationalisation of French universities : towards an integrated management ? - Patricia Pol
• Facilitating higher education mobility for the future - views from Japanese context - Akiyoshi Yonezawa
• The global competition for talent - Innovation and mobility of the highly skilled - Sarah Box

C: Labour market changes and the future of higher education

• The future of graduate employment and work and the implications for higher education - Ulrich Teichler
• Higher education and labour markets: looking for solutions to contrasting needs - Marino Regini

• Future scenarios for higher education - Dirk Van Damme
• Background paper - Manuel Heitor
• Which tertiary education institutions in times of accelerated technical change? A system approach towards knowledge networks and enhanced societal trust - Manuel Heitor

 

Session 10: Concluding remarks and next steps

• Concluding remarks - Dirk Van Damme