This invitation-only event, which celebrates its sixth edition and is organized and hosted by the University of Warwick, will gather leaders from the world’s foremost universities, senior policy-makers and international business executives.
The topic of this edition will be “Universities and Economic Growth”, and it will serve as a platform to discuss the major global challenges facing higher education and society today. Some of the topics of discussion will be universities as drivers of economic growth, growth through technology, transnational education and the changing role of universities. A declaration of commitment and policy recommendations for the G8 summit of world leaders will be prepared during the event.
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By Gina Stewart. Many years ago, I had dinner with my wise friend Sheila Campbell, who used to run a very successful advertising business in Washington, D.C. She related this story to me.
When we hired at the agency, we interviewed candidates, decided which one we wanted to hire, and then asked for that person’s salary requirements. If we could afford the requested salary, we would make an offer. One year when I was reviewing the books, I realized (to my growing horror) that I was paying men much more than women for performing the same work. But it was what they had asked for … . So I went to each underpaid employee, offered a salary adjustment, explained why, and said to each, ‘This is probably the only time in your life that someone else will do this. From now on, you have to know what you are worth, and ask for it.” Read more...

By Karin Fischer. As globalization and technology blur national borders, universities must work even harder to demonstrate their distinctiveness and value, said the leaders of top universities in the Asia-Pacific region.
The half-dozen presidents and vice chancellors spoke on the challenges to higher education as part of a round table during a meeting of the Asia-Pacific Association for International Education. The four-day conference has drawn more than 1,300 top university administrators from around the world to Hong Kong. Globalization and technology, including the rise of massive open online courses, or MOOCs, are changing the education landscape, but university leaders said they shouldn't allow those developments to compromise their identities.
"Globalization should not mean homogenization," said Ian O'Connor, vice chancellor and president of Griffith University, in Australia. Read more...

Knowmad Society explores the future of learning, work and how we relate with each other in a world driven by accelerating change, globalization, and the rise of knowmads.
WHAT IS KNOWMAD SOCIETY? 
This book explores the future of learning, work and how we relate with each other in a world where we are now asked to design our own futures. Nine authors from three continents, ranging from academics to business leaders, share their visions for the future of learning and work, and provide insight into what they are doing now to help drive positive outcomes.  Key topics covered include: reframing learning and human development; required skills and competencies; rethinking schooling; flattening organizations; co-creating learning; and new value creation in organizations.
WHO ARE KNOWMADS? 
Knowmads are nomadic knowledge workers –creative, imaginative, and innovative people who can work with almost anybody, anytime, and anywhere. Industrial society is giving way to knowledge and innovation work. Whereas industrialization required people to settle in one place to perform a very specific role or function, the jobs associated with knowledge and information workers have become much less specific concerning task and place. Moreover, technologies allow for these new paradigm workers to work within a broader options of space, including “real,” virtual, or many blended. Knowmads can instantly reconfigure and recontextualize their work environments, and greater mobility is creating new opportunities.
OUR APPROACH
This volume explores knowmad society in terms of socioeconomic evolution from industrial, information-based society to knowledge-based society, to a creative, context-driven Knowmad Society. Educational and organizational implications are explored, experiences are shared, and the book concludes with a powerful message of "what's it going to take" for nations and cultures to succeed in Knowmad Society.
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Knowmad Society is published by Education Futures LLC with additional support from Seats2Meet.com. ISBN (print edition): 978-0615742090.

By David Eastwood. Traditionally a university has been defined by, indeed defined itself as, a place. People “go to” universities, even in a world where the virtual may seem to have made place less important. Students often will pay, and pay significantly, to study at universities, putting a premium on the real, the immediate, and the academic experience in a particular environment. The Harvard experience is Harvard in Cambridge, Mass. However generous the institution is with its online content, that is only a tantalizing fragment of the Harvard experience. Not valueless, of course, but different.
To study at a particular university means to study in a unique setting and in a distinctive program. The importance of that experience for many leads them to want to return to their alma mater, literally to revisit their memories and to reconnect in their university setting. Nowhere is this more powerful than at the most prestigious universities.
So what does this mean in a world where higher education is increasingly globalized, and where many of us think long and hard about our global strategy? Read more...