UNU/UNESCO International Conference:
Globalization 2007
Speakers and panellists from the 2007 UNU/UNESCO international conference on globalization and higher education. Photo: UNU
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Programme for Day 1
(August 29, U Thant Hall, UN House, Tokyo)
Leaflet
(160 KB PDF)
Background Paper
by Hans d'Orville, Director, Bureau of Strategic Planning, UNESCO
Master of Ceremonies
Hatsuhisa Takashima
Special Adviser to the UNU Rector (Media and Public Relations)
10:00–10:45
Opening Remarks and Introduction
- Representative, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan (MoFA)
Yamamoto (Japanese, 96 KB PDF)
- Representative, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan (MEXT)
Kiso (96 KB PDF)
- Koïchiro Matsuura, Director-General, UNESCO
Pathways Towards a Shared Future: Changing Roles of Higher Education in a Changing World
Matsuura (1.5 MB PDF)
- Hans van Ginkel, Rector, UNU
A Better Future for All: Roles of Education and Science in Broadening Understanding
van Ginkel (40 KB PDF)
10:45-11:00
Coffee Break
11:00-13:00
Keynote Presentations on "Globalization and the Changing Roles of Higher Education"
Co-Chairs: Koïchiro Matsuura, Director-General, UNESCO, and Hans van Ginkel, Rector, UNU
Keynote speakers will present an overview of the changing roles of Higher Education in an increasingly knowledge-intensive globalized world. A brief Q&A period will follow each presentation.
- Higher Education (and Research) and Sustainable Development
Yoriko Kawaguchi, Member, House of Councillors, Japan
Kawaguchi (Japanese, 152 KB PDF)
- Higher Education's Perfect Storm
Jo Ritzen, President, Maastricht University
Ritzen (196 KB PDF)
- Higher Education and Development
N'Dri T. Assié-Lumumba, Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science, Professor, Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University
Assié-Lumumba (48 KB PDF)
- Higher Education, Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Hiroyuki Yoshikawa, President, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science & Technology, Japan
Yoshikawa (352 KB PDF)
- Higher Education, Environment and Development
Carl Lindberg, Former State Secretary, Ministry of Education and Science, Sweden
Lindberg (28 KB PDF)
- Higher Education and Human and Social Development
Antoni Giró i Roca, Rector, Technical University of Catalonia and President, Global University Network for Innovation
Giró (36 KB PDF)
Giró, presentation (64 KB PDF)
13:00-14:15
Lunch Break
14:15-14:30
Group photograph (speakers, panellists, & chairs)
14:30-18:15
Panel Discussion on Globalization and Higher Education: Emerging Themes and Patterns
14:30-16:15
Panel 1: Higher Education and Societal Needs
Chair: Hans d'Orville, Director, Bureau of Strategic Planning, UNESCO
- Higher Education, a Catalyst for Development
Kazuo Takahashi, Visiting Professor, UNU
Takahashi (84 KB PDF)
- Continuing Education Open to All
David Wiley, Director, The Center for Open and Sustainable Learning
Wiley (7.7 MB PDF)
- Higher Education, Society and the Media
Koichi Kabayama, Director, Printing Museum, Tokyo, Former Director, National Museum of Western Art and Professor Emeritus, the University of Tokyo - The Bologna Process: A Regional Response to Global Challenges
Jan Sadlak, Director, European Centre for Higher Education (UNESCO-CEPES)
Sadlak (40 KB PDF)
16:15-16:30
Coffee Break
16:30-18:15
Panel 2: Strengthening African Higher Education
Chair: Hans van Ginkel, Rector, UNU
- Higher Education, Research, and Innovation in Africa
Mohamed H.A. Hassan, Executive Director, The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World
Hassan, presentation (1.9 MB PDF)
- How to involve civil society in strengthening African Higher Education: some key issues based on the mandate of National Social and Economic Councils in the way of reaching the MDGs
Mohamed Séghir Babès, Président, Conseil National Économique et Social d'Algérie
Babès (French, 508 KB PDF)
- Challenges and opportunities for Higher Education in Southern Africa
B.S. Ngubane, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Republic of South Africa
Ngubane, presentation (40 KB PDF)
- The Africa-Asia Dialogue for Basic Education Development Project: a joint initiative of UNESCO, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), the United Nations University and the Center for the Study of International Cooperation in Education, Hiroshima University
Masafumi Nagao, Center for the Study of International Cooperation in Education, Hiroshima University
Nagao (124 KB PDF)
Nagao, presentation (144 KB PDF)
- Strengthening African Higher Education
Narciso Matos, Executive Director, Foundation for Community Development, Mozambique
Matos, presentation (216 KB PDF)
18:30
Reception
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