{"id":7886,"date":"2017-03-13T11:54:37","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T02:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rihe.hiroshima-u.ac.jp\/?p=7886\/"},"modified":"2017-03-13T11:54:37","modified_gmt":"2017-03-13T02:54:37","slug":"going-global-2017-22-24-may-2017-queen-elizabeth-ii-centre-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rihe.hiroshima-u.ac.jp\/en\/2017\/03\/going-global-2017-22-24-may-2017-queen-elizabeth-ii-centre-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Going Global 2017, 22-24 May 2017, Queen Elizabeth II Centre, London"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Global cities: connecting talent, driving change<\/h2>\n<p>We live in an era characterized by both globalisation and urbanisation with more than half of the world\u2019s people living in cities and towns. Universities and colleges are the global connectors among the world\u2019s fast-evolving knowledge economies and cities are the beating hearts of innovation. This urban-global age provides tertiary education institutions with unprecedented opportunities to mobilise their expertise, prepare young people for the future and drive forward research and policy agendas at the city, national and global levels. Yet the urban-global age also poses challenges for universities and colleges and the cities and towns of which they are a part, not least because of the changing nature and locations of tertiary education delivery.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Going Global 2017 explores how universities and colleges support city-regional economies and social and civic engagement, connecting the world&#8217;s cities to global knowledge and talent and addressing global challenges.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>WE EXAMINE THIS THROUGH FOUR LENSES:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Research and innovation<\/li>\n<li>Talent development and flows<\/li>\n<li>Societies and communities<\/li>\n<li>Leadership<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read the full description of Going Global 2017 <a class=\"bc-external\" title=\"Opens in a new tab or window.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.britishcouncil.org\/going-global\/themes\" target=\"_blank\">conference themes<span class=\"bc-ext-icon\">.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<article id=\"post-7884\" class=\"post-7884 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-higher-en\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iau-aiu.net\/\">International Association of Universities<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<footer class=\"entry-meta\"><\/footer>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global cities: connecting talent, driving change We live in an era characterized by both globalisation and urbanisation with more than half of the world\u2019s people living in cities and towns. Universities and colleges are the global connectors among the world\u2019s fast-evolving knowledge economies and cities are the beating hearts of innovation. This urban-global age provides tertiary education institutions with unprecedented opportunities to mobilise their expertise, prepare young people for the future and drive forward research and policy agendas at the city, national and global levels. Yet the urban-global age also poses challenges for universities and colleges and the cities and towns of which they are a part, not least because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","vk-ltc-link":"","vk-ltc-target":"0"},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-higher-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rihe.hiroshima-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rihe.hiroshima-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rihe.hiroshima-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rihe.hiroshima-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rihe.hiroshima-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rihe.hiroshima-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rihe.hiroshima-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rihe.hiroshima-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rihe.hiroshima-u.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}