| 2nd International Conference on World-Class Universities | |
| 31 October - 2 November, 2007 | |
| Shanghai, China | |
| Wednesday, 31 October, 2007 | |
| Whole day | Arrival of participants |
| 19:00-21:00 | Welcome reception |
| Thursday, 1 November, 2007 | |
| 8:30-9:00 | Opening Session: Welcome remarks and overview of meeting objectives |
| Prof. Nian Cai Liu, Director, Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China | |
| Dr. Jan Sadlak, Director, UNESCO-CEPES | |
| 9:00-10:00 | Session I: Plenary Lecture |
| Chair: Dr. Jamil Salmi, Tertiary Education Coordinator, The World Bank | |
| Prof. Philip G. Altbach, Director, Center for International Higher Education, Boston College, USA | |
| "Empires of knowledge: the challenges of world-class research universities in developing countries" | |
| 10:00-10:30 | Coffee Break |
| 10:30-12:00 | Session II: Conceptual Aspects of World-Class Universities |
| Chair: Prof. Hans Weder, President, University of Zurich, Switzerland | |
| Prof. Monique Canto-Sperber, Director, École Normal Superieure, France | |
| "About evaluation of world class universities: Respect of differences between nations in the definition of evaluation criteria" | |
| Prof. André Siganos, Director General, CampusFrance, France | |
| "Rankings, governance and attractiveness: the new French context" | |
| Uwe Brandenburg and Prof. Detlef Mueller Boeling, Director, Center for Higher Education Development (CHE), Germany | |
| "Identifying the best: the CHE-ranking of excellent European graduate programmes in natural sciences" | |
| General discussion | |
| 12:00-14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00-15:30 | Session III: National Strategies for Building World-Class Universities – Part 1 |
| Chair: Prof. Monique Canto-Sperber, Director, Ecole Normale Supérieure, France | |
| Prof. Hans Weder, President, University of Zurich, Switzerland | |
| "Quality assurance and promotion of excellence in the Swiss university system" | |
| Prof. Vladimir Troyan, St. Petersburg University, Russia | |
| "Main principles of the strategy on building world-class universities in Russia" | |
| Prof. Bertrand Bellon, Director, ADIS, University Paris-Sud (XI), France | |
| "The restructuring of the national French system of research and world-class universities" | |
| General discussion | |
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee Break |
| 16:00-18:00 | Session IV: National Strategies for Building World-Class Universities – Part 2 |
| Chair: Prof. Detlef Müller-Böling, Director, Center for Higher Education Development (CHE), Germany | |
| Prof. Anders Flodström, Chancellor, Swedish National Agency for Higher Education, Sweden | |
| "Swedish strategies for world-class status in the context of university rankings - metrics for academic science" | |
| Prof. Ivan Rozman, Rector, and Prof. Marko Marhl, Vice-Rector, University of Maribor, Slovenia | |
| "Improving quality of universities by world-university-ranking in Slovenia and the Danube region" | |
| Prof. Akiyoshi Yonezawa, Center for the Advancement of Higher Education, Tohoku University, Japan | |
| "The new direction of Japanese higher education policy: Conflicts between global and domestic logic" | |
| Prof. Kampechara Puriparinya, ChulalongKorn University, Thailand | |
| "Strategies towards the world-class universities of Thai higher education institutions" | |
| General discussion | |
| 19:00-21:00 | Dinner |
| Friday, 2 November, 2007 | |
| 8:30-10:00 | Session V: Institutional Practices for Building World-Class Universities – Part 1 |
| Chair: Prof. Bertrand Bellon, Director, ADIS, University Paris-Sud (XI), France | |
| Prof. Jing Huan Shi, Tsinghua University, China | |
| "Combining the vision, mission and actions: Tsinghua’s experience in building the world-class university" | |
| Prof. José-Ginés Mora, Director, Center for the Study of Higher Education, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain | |
| "Strategies for developing a world-class university in a complex context: the case of the Valencia University of Technology" | |
| Associate Prof. Gil Sun Song, Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China | |
| "A step toward a world-class research university: Seoul National University" | |
| 10:00-10:30 | Coffee Break |
| 10:30-12:00 | Session VI: Institutional Practices for Building World-Class Universities –Part 2 |
| Chair: Dr. Kathryn Mohrman, Executive Director, Hopkins-Nanjing Center, and Johns Hopkins University, USA | |
| Dr. Tony Sheil, Senior Manager, Research Policy Office for Research, Griffith University, Australia | |
| "Implications of world university rankings for national and institutional research strategy of small developed nations" | |
| Prof. Richard Russell, Pro Vice-Chancellor, University of Adelaide, Australia | |
| "The pursuit of ‘scale and focus’ at the University of Adelaide" | |
| Prof. Salem Al-Agtash, Dean, School of Information & Computing, German-Jordanian University, Jordan | |
| "Class universities in developing countries: German-Jordanian University model" | |
| General discussion | |
| 12:00-14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00-15:30 | Session VII: Cooperation and Competition among Research Universities |
| Chair: Associate Prof. Akiyoshi Yonezawa, Center for the Advancement of Higher Education, Tohoku University, Japan | |
| Dr. Kathryn Mohrman, Executive Director, Hopkins-Nanjing Center, and Johns Hopkins University, USA | |
| "Educational exchanges: What world-class universities should not adopt from U.S. higher education" | |
| Anatoly Oleksiyenko, Higher Education Group, University of Toronto, Canada | |
| "Global portfolios and strategic international partnerships of a major research university" | |
| Nicola Owen, Academic Registrar, University of Warwick, UK | |
| "Elite scientists and the global brain drain" | |
| General discussion | |
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee Break |
| 16:00-17:00 | Session VIII: World-Class Universities – International Perspectives |
| Chair: Prof. Jie Zhang, President, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China | |
| Dr. Jamil Salmi, Tertiary Education Coordinator, The World Bank | |
| "Creating world-class universities: a World Bank view" | |
| Dr. Jan Sadlak, Director, UNESCO-CEPES | |
| "The impact of ‘seeking world-class status’ from the point of view of internationalization/globalization" | |
| 17:00-17:30 | Final Discussion and Closing Remarks |
| Prof. Nian Cai Liu, Director, Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China | |
| Dr. Jan Sadlak, Director, UNESCO-CEPES | |