The globalization of higher education – is it neo-imperialism run amok, or the hope of the world?

Date: 

Wednesday, June 15, 2022, 10:00am

Location: 

Zoom webinar

Webinar recording is available here

Profesor Marginson's slides are available here

Professor Marginson's lecture notes are available here

 

Speaker: Professor Simon Marginson, Oxford University

 

MarginsonSimon Marginson is Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford, Director of the ESRC/RE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), and Joint Editor-in-Chief of Higher Education. He is also a Professorial Associate of the University of Melbourne, a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in UK, and a member of Academia Europaea. CGHE is a research partnership of six UK and five international universities with funding for projects on global, national and local aspects of higher education in 2015-2023. Simon’s research is focused primarily on global, international and comparative higher education, global science, higher education in East Asia, the contributions of higher education, and higher education and social inequality. In 2014 Simon was the Clark Kerr Lecturer on Higher Education at the University of California, Berkeley, and received the Research Achievement Award at the US Association for the Study of Higher Education. He serves on advisory committees at Tsinghua University, Peking University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Academic Ranking of World Universities, and the University of Tokyo. His scholarship is widely published and cited (Google h-index 78). Recent books include The Dream is Over: The crisis of Clark Kerr’s California Idea of Higher Education (University of California Press, 2016); High Participation Systems of Higher Education, edited with Brendan Cantwell and Anna Smolentseva (Oxford University Press, 2018); Changing Higher Education for a Changing World, edited with Claire Callender and William Locke (Bloomsbury, 2020), Changing Higher Education in India, edited with Saumen Chattopadhyay and N.V. Varghese (Bloomsbury, 2021) and Changing Higher Education in East Asia, edited with Xin Xu (Bloomsbury, 2022).

 

M KlemencicModerated by: Dr Manja Klemenčič, Harvard University