Reimagining research-led higher education: how to build standards that help, not hinder?
CHEF webinar organized with the Guild of Research-Intensive Universities
Date: September 23, 2021, 14.00-16.00
Venue: Online. Participants will recieve a Zoom-Link closer to the event.
Fee: Free
Speakers: - Berit Eika, Prorektor for Education at Aarhus University
- Susan Wright, Professor of Educational Anthropology, Danish School of Education, Aarhus University and
Co-director of Centre for Higher Education Futures, CHEF
- Søren Smedegaard Bengtsen, Associate Professor of General Education, Aarhus University and Co-director of
Centre for Higher Education Futures, CHEF
Registration deadline: September 20, 2021
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Abstract
This webinar will have three parts. First we will consider the breadth of the remit facing universities in their ambition to engage students in research-led education. Second, we will discuss what kinds of standards are needed that will enhance, rather than hinder, universities in fulfilling this ambition. Third we will explore possible ways to form ‘communities of practice’ that involve students and academics as well as leaders and policy makers in developing such standards.
The webinar is hosted by CHEF and is part of a series to discuss the paper  Re-imagining Research-led Education in a Digital Age. This paper is produced by The Guild, a network of 20 research intensive universities uniting with the purpose of collaboration and influencing EU Policy.
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The Mission of the University: A Perspective from Georgia
CHEF-Talk
Date: September 30, 2021, 15.00-16.00
Venue: Online. Participants will recieve a Zoom-Link closer to the event.
Fee: Free
Speakers: Giorgi Tavadze, Professor of philosophy at East European University (Tbilisi, Georgia)
Registration deadline: September 27, 2021
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Abstract
After the collapse of the Soviet Union Georgian HE system has undergone serious transformations. Especially important milestone was Georgia’s joining of EHEA in 2005. Besides this progress serious challenges remain none the less: there is increasing trend of homogenization and "copy-pasting" of western models without deep thinking of the local context. It is especially evident with regards to the discourse of the mission of the university in Georgian HE. I want to address this issue and outline my view of what universities should be for in the postcolonial situation in which Georgia finds itself. I will outline three main spheres - social, cultural, and political – and describe the mission of the university in each of them. In the description of each sphere special attention will be made to the relationship between local and global contexts and to the issues of social and global justice. These three dimensions (and local and global contexts) are interconnected. In this sense university can be regarded as a place, which gathers (Heidegger), rather than disconnects. It is a gathering topos, which gathers social (issues of poverty, education, health etc.), cultural (issues of cultural diversity), and political (issues of democracy and democratic participation) dimensions and serves as a hub between local and global contexts.
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