Hedda - Higher Education Development AssociationPosted by Marielk. This guest post is by Inga Zalyevska who is currently enrolled as Masters student in Research and Innovation in Higher Education, an Erasmus Mundus program coordinated by Danube University Krems and University of Tampere.
The International Workshop on Higher Education Reform was held in its 10th edition on October 2-4 at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia. As the title suggests, the event was focused on reform, with the emphasis on the big picture over time. Keynote speakers and panelists were invited to trace the impact of higher education reform over the past several decades and forecast its future development.
The conference was a comfortable size of about 80 participants from different countries in the EU, North America, Africa and Asia. The majority of the attendees were senior scholars and policy analysts – a group well qualified to provide a bird’s eye view of the HE reform, but also perhaps disillusioned or even ‘tired’ of the issue as Catherine Odora Hoppers, the first keynote speaker, admitted. Her address reviewed the development of South African HE since its establishment and into recent times. More...