Jamil Salmi, a Moroccan education economist, is a global tertiary education expert. Until January 2012, he was the World Bank’s tertiary education coordinator. He was the principal author of the Bank’s 2002 Tertiary Education Strategy entitled “Constructing Knowledge Societies: New Challenges for Tertiary Education”. In the past twenty years, Mr. Salmi has provided policy advice on tertiary education reform and strategic planning to governments and university leaders in more than 70 countries all over the world.
Mr. Salmi is a member of the international advisory board of several universities in Europe, Asia and Latin America. He is also a member of the International Advisory Network of the UK Leadership Foundation for Higher Education, and the Editorial Committee of OECD’s Journal of Higher Education Management and Policy. Between 2008 and 2011, he was a member of the Governing Board of the International Institute for Educational Planning.
Mr. Salmi’s 2009 book addresses the “Challenge of Establishing World-Class Universities”. His latest book, co-edited with Professor Phil Altbach, entitled “The Road to Academic Excellence: the Making of World-Class Research Universities”, was published in September 2011.
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The road to academic excellence:The challenge of establishing world-class universities
Strategies for driving the right behaviours towards benchmarking
Workshops:
Using benchmarking to guide transformation
Ying Cheng, Dr. is an Associate Professor and the Executive Director of Center for World-Class Universities at Graduate School of Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU). He entered SJTU in 1996. There he obtained his bachelor degree in Polymer Science and Engineering (2000) and his doctoral degree in S&T and Education Management (2007). From 2007 to 2008, he went to Paris as a postdoctoral fellow attached to Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) but conducted his studies at the Observatoire des Sciences et des Techniques (OST).
His current research interests include the ranking, evaluation and classification of universities, and empirical studies of World-Class Universities. He is the co-editor of three books, including Path to a World-Class University (2010) and University Ranking: Internationalization and Diversification (2009, In Chinese). He has published dozens of research papers in English and Chinese journals such as Higher Education in Europe, Scientometrics, Journal of Higher Education (China) and Information Science (China). He has provided a couple of consultation reports on building up World-Class Universities to the Ministry of Education of China, some of them attracted a great deal of attention from various higher education stakeholders.
He is an active practitioner of university ranking exercise. He has been responsible for the annual update and new development of the Academic Ranking of World Universities since 2005. He conducted the first ranking of universities in Greater China in 2011.
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The Academic Ranking of World Universities: Evolution & future developments
Before becoming a Commissioner, Michael Beaton-Wells held senior roles in the higher education and management consulting industries. He was also a board member of the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM).
From 2009 to 2011 Michael was Executive Director, Finance & Planning, at the University of Melbourne, where he was a member of the Senior Executive, and responsible for leading the University’s annual budget and business planning cycle, strategic risk assessments, management reporting and information stream, and major project gate reviews. He was closely involved in all aspects of higher education funding and policy reform during this time. Michael was also acting Chief Financial Officer when required, and was a key business adviser to the Finance Committee.
From 2005 to 2008 Michael was Director of University Planning at the University of Melbourne, where he was responsible for the Accountability Cycle, including the planning, reporting and quality assurance cycles of the University. Michael was closely involved in the planning and implementation of the Melbourne Model curriculum reforms, including student profile planning, financial modelling and risk analysis.
Michael has participated as a member of a number of sector national working parties, and has been a regular presenter on higher education leadership programs, such as the Master of Tertiary Education Management course.
Prior to joining the University of Melbourne, Michael spent ten years in management consulting, with particular focus on marketing-led strategy, forensic marketing and brand valuation. He is admitted to practice as a barrister and solicitor in Victoria, and is a member of the Australian Market and Social Research Society. He holds degrees in arts/economics (BA), law (LLB) and marketing (MMktg).
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Advancing quality higher education in Australia
Professor Alan Robson served as Vice-Chancellor of The University of Western Australia from 2004-2011, following more than a decade as Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost (since 1993).
Professor Robson was Chair of the Group of Eight (2007-2010), Deputy Chair of the Council of the National Library (1998-2005), Deputy Chair of Universities Australia (2009-2011), a member of the Western Australian Science Council (2003-2009) and the CSIRO Board (2003-2008).
He has also held the positions of Foundation Director of the Cooperative Research Centre for Legumes in Mediterranean Agriculture (CLIMA), Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture, Head of the School of Agriculture and Professor of Agriculture (Soil Science) at The University of Western Australia. He is currently the Hackett Professor of Agriculture.
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Developing standards for the higher education sector
Defining success & quality
As the global tertiary education ecosystem continues to expand, higher education providers are challenged with reassessing their strengths and priorities. In intensely competitive markets, pressure to demonstrate continuous quality assurance and improvement is growing.
In positioning Australia globally and ensuring quality, discussion around standards is heightening. The anticipated establishment of the Higher Education Standards Framework will require providers to define and map their institute’s activities with emerging policy frameworks.
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