Unesco Forum On Higher Education In The Europe Region

UNESCO Forum on Higher Education in the Europe Region: Access, Values, Quality and Competitiveness
convened in the context of the 2009 World Conference on Higher Education
Palace of the Parliament, Bucharest, Romania21 – 24 May 2009

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The Palace oftheParliament

Who participated?
Ministers and other high level decision makers
Parliamentarians
Representatives of the academic community
Representatives of various academic and research institutions
Governmental, national and international non-governmental organisations (CoE, EC, OECD, EUA, ESU, EI)
Individual experts&

Carmen & Queenie

What was itabout?
1. Ten years back and ten years forward
2. Parallel thematic sessions: access, values, quality, competitiveness, internationalisation
3. Main Challanges for Higher Education – Views from Ministers
4. Mail Findings from the Five Parallel Sessions

Alex UsherTenYears Back andTenYears Forward: Developmentsand Trends in Higher Education in Europe, Israel & North America

Promotion for MAHE
& DAAD

Carmen & Jan Sadlak

Paulo Santiago, Queenie & Peter Scott

Carmen, Klaus Hüfner & Queenie

Nian Cai Liu, Queenie & Ren Youqun

Bucharest Message to the 2009 World Conference on Higher Education
Experiences and Recommendations from the Europe Region

Access
Increased participation in higher education
Student retention and academic achievement
Fostering the potential of students from underrepresented groups
Access for women
The future of our students is the ability to know how to learn and not the ability to pay! (Ligia Deca)

Values
Civic values, justice and tolerance become learning outcomes
Students as contributing partners
Academic freedom
Empathy is the most important value!(HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal)

Quality
Further development of quality assurance systems
Responsability of assuring quality
Quality is a simple issue, as long as I don‘t have to explain it !(Georges Haddad)

Competitiveness
“academic competitiveness”
Greater openness
“brain circulation”
Internationalisation of higher education
Competitiveness is fine as long as we don‘t have to compete! (Peter van der Hijden)

The 2009 WCHEParis, July 5-9
http://www.unesco.org/en/wche2009/resources/videos

If I haveseenfartherthanothers, itisbecause I was standingon theshouldersofgiants.(Isaac Newton)