22nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HIGHER EDUCATION

The 22nd International Conference on Higher Education, scheduled for June 17-19, 2011, in Ankara, Turkey, marks the 30th anniversary of the founding of I.C.H.E. by the late İhsan Doğramacı in that same city.  

The 2011 host institution Bilkent University, which Doğramacı founded in 1984, has announced that in honor of this occasion Conference registration fees will be waived for all participants.

 The theme of the Conference will be “Quality in Higher Education” and the scope is outlined in the attached description.  Invited speakers who have already agreed to attend are the following:

 

Dlawer Ala’Aldeen
Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Kurdistan Regional Government, Iraq
“A Roadmap to Quality: Reforming the System of Higher Education in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq”

Issa Batarseh  
President, Princess Sumaya University for Technology, Jordan
"Quality of Higher Education in Jordan"

 Dietrich Eberhardt
Chancellor em., University of Ulm, Germany
“Universities and Fundamentalism”

 Nachum Finger
Deputy Chair, Council for Higher Education of Israel
“Leveraging Quality Evaluation in the Planning and Budgeting of Higher Education: The Current Israeli Experience”

 Ulrich Schollwöck
University of Munich, Germany, & Vice President, German Association of University Professors and Lecturers
“Bologna in Germany: A Critical Assessment”


 Proposals for contributed papers  are kindly requested by April 30, 2011.  They can be sent as part of the registration form.