The UNICA EduLAB Group and King’s College London are organising a joint Conference, hosted by the School of Education, Communication & Society across 19-20 May.

The conference will be addressing the following topics:

• How models in key areas of Higher Education travel internationally, across systems, with positive or negative consequences (e.g. models of governance, funding, student access, career progression for staff, curriculum and pedagogy, transparency, efficiency, or trust building). ​
• Are there productive contemporary examples of models in these areas being adopted, and adapted, from other systems? Are there new/recent models that can be useful in different systems than those were they emerged initially?
• Are there contemporary examples of counterproductive instances of higher education models traveling internationally?
• How can both types of examples be studied and how can lessons learned from such an analysis be used?

Run of events

Day 1 | 19 May, River Room, Strand Campus

Seated Dinner & After-dinner talk: Higher Education reform in the UK- where to learn from? ​
​Guest speakers: Dame Alison Wolf DBE, Baroness Wolf of Dulwich, and ‘Funmi Olonisakin, Vice President, International, Engagement & Service King’s College London

Day 2 | 20 May, Macadam Building 2.2

8:30 | Welcome Coffee

9:00 | Welcome and Introduction

9:30-11:00 | Session 1 | How models of governance and funding in Higher Education travel internationally?

Keynote address: Who leads the way in Higher Education? Thomas Estermann, Director for Governance, Funding and Public Policy Development, European University Association

11:00-11:30 | Coffee-break

11:30-13:00 | Session 2 | What works best? Models for the production and transmission of knowledge in higher education

Keynote Address: Emerging vs waning models of knowledge production in Higher Education. A global comparative perspective, by Simon Marginson, Professor of Higher Education at University of Oxford, and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Higher Education

13:00-14:00 | Farewell lunch