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Marek Kwiek joined the UNESCO IESALC expert group on “Higher Education Futures”! His and others’ Concept notes available in English, French and Spanish

Professor Marek Kwiek, in his capacity as the UNESCO Chair in Institutonal Research and Higher Education Policy, was invited to an expert group led by UNEESCO IESALC by Dr. Emma Sabzalieva.

His concept notes available in three languages are below:

Higher Education in 2050: High Participation and Vertical Stratification (A Concept Note for IESALC UNESCO, Futures of Higher Education, 2021)

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A composite photo is below:

As part of IESALC’s project on the Futures of Higher Education, we are collaborating with higher education experts from every part of the world. Our team of experts are highly distinguished figures with extensive experience in teaching, researching and/or enacting higher education. Working with these experts, we are generating innovative and visionary ideas about the purpose and functions of higher education around the world as it might be thirty years from now.

Each expert prepared a concept note sharing their views, ideas, and expertise on the two key questions this project is exploring: How would you like higher education to be in 2050? How could higher education contribute to better futures for all in 2050?

We invite you to read their concept notes, which are available below in English, French and Spanish.

In addition, IESALC together with the UNESCO Future of Learning and Innovation team are organizing a series of workshops with this group. The workshops provide opportunities to dialogue and develop the ideas and thinking developed in the concept notes.

Concept notes

Professor Naomar Almeida-Filho, Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of São Paulo, Brazil

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​​​​Professor N’Dri Thérèse Assié-Lumumba, Director of the Institute for African Development, Cornell University, USA 

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Professor Ronald Barnett, Emeritus Professor of Higher Education, University College London, UK

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Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, Vice Chancellor, University of the West Indies

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Professor José Joaquín Brunner, Universidad Diego Portales, Chile

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Professor Michael Cross, Director of the Ali Mazrui Centre for Higher Education Studies, University of Johannesburg, South Africa 

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​Professor Jocelyne Gacel-Ávila, Coordinator of the LAC Regional Observatory on Internationalization and Networks in Tertiary Education, University of Guadalajara, México 

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Professor Liu Haifeng; College of Education, Zhejiang University, China

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Professor Ahmad Y. Majdoubeh, Vice President for Humanities, University of Jordan, Jordan 

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Professor Mpine Makoe, The Commonwealth of Learning Chair OER, The Institute for Open Distance Learning, The University of South Africa, South Africa 

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Professor ​Emerita Takyiwaa Manuh, Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Ghana

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Professor Simon Marginson, University of Oxford, UK

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Dr. Pankaj Mittal, Secretary General, Association of Indian Universities, India

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Professor Marcela Mollis, Research Director on Comparative Higher Education, Instituto Universitario de la Cooperación, Argentina

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Professor Rajani Naidoo, Director of the International Centre of Higher Education Management and UNESCO Chair in Higher Education Management, University of Bath, UK

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Dr Oomandra Nath Varma, Director, Mauritius Institute of Education, Mauritius 

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Dr. Dorcas Beryl Otieno, OGW, UNESCO Chair on Higher Education Development for a Green Economy and Sustainability,Senior Lecturer, Kenyatta University, Kenya  

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Professor Dzulkifli (Dzul) Razak, Rector, International Islamic University Malaysia 

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Professor Nagla Rizk, The American University in Cairo, Egypt 

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Professor Patricia Mariella Ruiz Bravo Lopez, UNESCO Chair in Gender Equality in Higher Education, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, Perú 

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Professor Emeritus  Chanita Rukspollmuang, Vice President, Siam University, Thailand 

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Luis Fernando Sarango Macas, Pushak/Rector, Pluriversidad Amawtay Wasi, Ecuador 

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Professor ​Linda Tuhiwai Smith, University of Waikato, New Zealand

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Professor Felisa Tibbitts, UNESCO Chair in Human Rights and Higher Education, Chair in Human Rights Education, Utrecht University, Netherlands

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