Conference program
Conference Program 2014 (PDF, 526 Kb)
Thursday, October 16, Pre-Conference day
09.00-18.00 International workshop "World Universities Rankings: Impacts on Universities Worldwide” (invitation-only workshop). Working language: English. Room 206. Maria M. Yudkevich (Higher School of Economics) and Philip G. Altbach (Boston College).
10.00-18.00 Registration of Conference participants, Conference hall lobby
10.00-11.00 Welcoming coffee break, Conference hall lobby
10.30-18.00 Innovations in Higher Education Day "Homo Ludens – Man The Player: Games and Simulations in Higher Education.” Working language: English and Russian (with simultaneous translation). Room 301. (parallel meeting at conference hall – 14:00-18:00) (Oleg A. Podolsky and Natalia V. Isaeva, Higher School of Economics), J. Merienbur (Maastricht University)
10.30-18.00 Project workshop "Higher Education Systems in the Post-Soviet Countries" (open discussion). Working language: English (with simultaneous translation). Room 302. (Dmitry S. Semenov, Isak D. Froumin, Yaroslav I. Kuzminov, Higher School of Economics)
10.30-13.00 Research and methodology workshop "Best practice of internal social research in leading universities.” Working language: Russian. Room 303. Igor S. Chirikov (Higher School of Economics, University of California, Berkeley), Ivan A. Gruzdev (Higher School of Economics)
10.30-15.00 International project workshop "Higher Education Federalism: Governance and development of higher education in ‘federal type’ systems.” (invitation-only workshop). Working language: English (with simultaneous translation). Room 408. Isak D. Froumin (Higher School of Economics), Glen Jones (University of Toronto), Wang Rong (Peking University), Robert Verhine (Federal University of Bahia), Ulrich Teichler (University of Kassel), Pawan Agarwal (Higher Education Planning Commission, India)
11.00-13.00 Workshop «The minimum USE scores: setting cut-scores for univesities (Russia - 2014 and international practices)». Working language: Russian. Conference hall (Elena Yu. Kardanova and Maria S. Dobryakova, Higher School of Economics)
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-18.00 Workshop on Institutional and Student Experience Differentiation in Russia and China, co-organised by Higher School of Economics and Peking University. Working language: English (with simultaneous translation). Room 304. (Igor S. Chirikov, Higher School of Economics, University of California, Berkeley; Po Yang, Peking University)
14.00-16.00 Evgeny Knyazev and Natalia Drantusova memorial workshop on University Management. Working language: Russian. Room 303. (Alexey K. Klyuev, Ural Federal University)
16.00-16.30 Coffee break, Conference hall lobby
16.30-18.00 Round-table discussion “Professional community activities as a source of higher education differentiation.” Working language: Russian (with simultaneous translation). Room 303. (Dan S. Medovnikov, Higher School of Economics)
Friday, October 17, Conference Day 1
10.00-18.00 Registration of Conference participants, Conference hall lobby
10.00-10.30 Welcoming coffee break, Conference hall lobby
10.30-11.00 Conference opening. Working language: Russian and English (with simultaneous translation). Conference hall (Yaroslav I. Kuzminov, Isak D. Froumin, Maria M. Yudkevich, Higher School of Economics)
11.00-12.00 Plenary presentation 1: Ulrich Teichler (University of Kassel). Diversification Trends in Higher Education Systems, National Structural Policies and Institutional Profiling Strategies. Working language: English (with simultaneous translation). Conference hall. Moderator and discussant: Maria M. Yudkevich (Higher School of Economics)
12.00-13.00 Plenary presentation 2: Ellen Hazelkorn (Dublin Institute of Technology). Rankings and the Reshaping of Higher Education. Working language: English (with simultaneous translation). Conference hall. Moderator and discussant: Steve O. Michael (Arcadia University)
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-16.00 Session meetings (sessions 1, 2 and 3). Working language: Russian (with simultaneous translation). Rooms 301, 302, 303
16.00-16.15 Coffee break
16.15-18.00 Session meetings (sessions 4, 5 and 6). Working language: Russian (with simultaneous translation). Rooms 301, 302, 303
Saturday, October 18, Conference Day 2
10.00-18.00 Registration of Conference participants, Conference hall lobby
10.00-10.45 Plenary session 3 Pavel Zgaga (University of Ljubljana).Differentiation in higher education in transitional and post-transitional contexts: the case of South-Eastern Europe. Working language: English and Russian (with simultaneous translation). Conference hall. Moderator and discussant: Alexey K. Klyuev (Ural Federal University)
10.45-11.30 Plenary presentation 4:Steve O. Michael (Association of Chief Academic Officers).Global Accreditation: Are We There Yet? Working language: English (with simultaneous translation). Moderator and discussant: Aleksander M. Sidorkin(Higher School of Economics)
11.30-12.00 Coffee break
12.00-14.00 Session meetings (sessions 7, 8 and 9). Working language: Russian (with simultaneous translation). Rooms 301, 302, 303
14.00-15.00 Lunch
15.00-16.00 Plenary presentation 3: Christopher Morphew (University of Iowa). Performance Funding as a Policy Tool for Managing Institutional Differentiation. Conference hall. Working language: English (with simultaneous translation). Moderator and discussant: Rong Wang (Peking University)
16.00-18.00 Session meetings (sessions 10, 11 and 12). Working language: Russian (with simultaneous translation). Rooms 301, 302, 303
18.00-18.30 Coffee break
18.30-19.00 Conference closing session. Working language: Russian and English (with simultaneous translation). Conference hall. (Isak D. Froumin and Maria M. Yudkevich, Higher School of Economics)