25th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HIGHER EDUCATION (ICHE)

Chair: Barbara Toplak Perovic, Alma Mater Europaea and Slovenian Association of Independent Higher Education Institutions

COMPETITIVENESS IN HIGHER EDUCATION
Panel in Cooperation with the European Union of Private Higher Education (EUPHE)

Welcome and Introduction
Ludvik Toplak, President of President of Alma Mater Europaea and member of the ICHE Steering Committee

OPENING LECTURE EUPHE
Klaus Hekking, President of the European Union of Private Higher Education
Non-state Universities in Europe - Drivers of Progress in Higher Education

OPENING LECTURES ICHE

Ignaz Bender, President of the International Conference on Higher Education
Ranking of Universities: Why Continental European Universities - except ETH Zurich - are not among the first 25 Universities of the World

Arif Caglar, Bilkent University, Turkey
ICHE and Its Pioneering Journey of 40 Years

PANEL DISCUSSION

Klaus Hekking, President of the European Union of Private Higher Education,
Ignaz Bender, President of the International Conference on Higher Education,
Franci Demsar, Director of the Slovene Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education,
Jernej Letnar Cernic, Dean at New University, Nova Gorica, Slovenia
Barbara Toplak Perovic, Alma Mater Europaea - ECM, Maribor

PAPER PRESENTATIONS

Online Evaluation and Accreditation: What Shall We Keep After the Epidemics?
Franci Demsar, Natasa Kramar, Klemen Subic, SQAA (Slovenian Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education)

Digitalisation of the Labour Theory of Value - Problem or Solution for Mankind?
Stane Bozicnik, University of Maribor, Slovenia

Leading of Formal Research Group in Digital Environment
Rasto Ovin, DOBA Business School, Maribor, Slovenia

Quality Assurance of Internationalisation in Higher Education: Slovenia in the Comparative Perspective of Western Balkans Countries
Marusa Hauptman Komotar, AMEU Institute of Humanities, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Implementation of E-Learning in Medical Education as an Innovative Project for Better Results after the Covid-19 Pandemic
Ridvana Mediu and Ntovolis Kostandinos, Logos University College, Tirana, Albania

Albanian Students' Perception About Online Learning in the Conditions of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Glediana Zeneli, Department of Applied Statistics and Informatics, Faculty of Economics, University of Tirana, and Arsen Benga, Department of Engineering and Technology, American College of the Middle East, Kuwait

Adoption of Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) in Analyzing the Emergence of E-Learning at Higher Education Institutions - A Study on Learner Perspectives
Venisha Jenifer Dmello and Ambigai Rajendran, Department of Commerce, Mahe, Manipal, India

Integrity, Socio-Economic and Political Transformations, Intercultural Communication and Gender Equality in Academic HE Institutions Need to be Promoted by Proposing and Drafting A New Law/Regulation and Guidelines for Achieving Higher Quality Assurance
Adriana Dervishaj, University of Tirana, Albania