Participation: In Person (or hybrid depending on the COVID-19 pandemic situation)
Organizer: Research Institute for Higher Education (RIHE), Hiroshima University, Japan
Co-Organizer: Higher Education Research Association (HERA)
There is little doubt that the development of higher education in Asia and other continents has been increasingly affected by a wider variety of new challenges in recent years. While there are a lot of uncertainties in the future, higher education worldwide is being and will be confronted with new issues particularly brought about by the neo-nationalism, the continual impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the changing geopolitics, as well as other new factors. This international conference aims to investigate general challenges higher education in Asia and other continents is facing and will be facing and what future holds for higher education in Asia and other continents in the new contexts. Researchers mainly from Asian countries will be invited to analyze and discuss higher education issues at the global, regional, national, and institutional levels. More importantly, although it is impossible to make an accurate prediction of the future of higher education in Asia and other continents at the various levels, it is expected that some trends of the future of higher education will be dealt with and examined.
The conference is mainly seeking the submission of abstracts related to the following topics:
Challenges for higher education: What are general and specific challenges for the development and future of higher education in individual countries and systems in the region, and individual institutions in Asia and other continents?
Impacts of new challenges: How and to what degree are new challenges impacting the missions, activities, behaviors, autonomy and governance, learning and knowledge production, and international engagement of higher education in individual countries, and/or specific institutions in Asia in particular?
Responses and reforms of higher education: How are individual continents, countries, institutions, and/or individual academics responding to these challenges?
Future and prospect of higher education: How and to what degree do and will new challenges possibly shape the future and prospect of higher education in individual countries, and specific institutions in the region in particular?
These are broad topics and research questions, and prospective presenters are welcome to focus on only one or some of these topics and questions.
We invite you to participate in the 2023 HERA conference and submit your abstracts in 350 to 450 words without any references via the form below no later than Tuesday, 28 February 2023. Your submitted proposal will be reviewed, and the decision of acceptance or rejection is expected to be made by Monday, 10 April 2023.
Since its establishment in September 2019, the National Information Center for Academic Recognition Japan (NIC-Japan) has served as a NIC based on the Tokyo Convention to provide information for the smooth recognition of higher education qualifications, to improve the international mobility of students and researchers.
As part of this effort, we have been holding the“NIC-Japan Seminar Series” started in 2021, in which experts from Japan and overseas discuss various topics related to recognition of foreign qualifications, such as examples of such qualifications and education systems.
For the first series in 2023, the seminar on the Thailand’s higher education system will be held online on January 30th. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Bundit Thipakorn, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs of KingMongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi will provide an overview of Thailand’s higher education system and higher education qualifications as well as university admission system.
We welcome a wide range of participants, including those who are involved in examining applications from foreign countries at higher education institutions, those who are involved in international affairs, and those who are interested in the foreign education systems.
*Please note that the speaker has been changed due to circumstances.
■Abstract International students are conceived as essential contributors to the development of their countries of origin after they finished their studies abroad. Political decision-makers of the countries of origin therefore take measures that students will eventually return to their home countries and bring back their gained knowledge and consequently contribute to development back home. However, is a return always the best way to contribute to development in the country of origin or can international graduates contribute equally from abroad or through their high mobility between different countries? This presentation aims to address this question on the basis of an intensive three years mixed-methods-based investigation in six countries – Germany as country of study and Colombia, Georgia, Ghana, Indonesia and Israel/Palestinian territories as countries of origin. migration and development, and highly skilled migration and demographic change.
■Note ・This seminar is related to the following JSPS Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Basic Research B). (19H01640) Futao Huang, Hiroshima University (Principal Investigator), A comparative study in the roles and contributions of foreign faculty and researchers ・Participation fee is free. ・The registration is open until 12:00, Wednesday, February 1st JST. ・This events will be held online through Zoom. You need an internet access, device with camera and microphone. ・Using your full name for your personal meeting ID is required when you enter the meeting room. You may not receive a permission to enter the room if the ID is different from the name registered. ・As a participant, you are not allowed to record the events or take the screenshot at your own. ・We will inform you of the participation URL by the day before. Please contact us at the following address by noon, Februrary 1st JST if you do not receive the email. k-kokyo(at)office.hiroshima-u.ac.jp *Replace (at) with @
■概要:International students are conceived as essential contributors to the development of their countries of origin after they finished their studies abroad. Political decision-makers of the countries of origin therefore take measures that students will eventually return to their home countries and bring back their gained knowledge and consequently contribute to development back home. However, is a return always the best way to contribute to development in the country of origin or can international graduates contribute equally from abroad or through their high mobility between different countries? This presentation aims to address this question on the basis of an intensive three years mixed-methods-based investigation in six countries – Germany as country of study and Colombia, Georgia, Ghana, Indonesia and Israel/Palestinian territories as countries of origin. migration and development, and highly skilled migration and demographic change.