Global Higher Education Forum (GHEF) 2011

Global Higher Education: Reflecting on the Past, Designing Sustainable Futures

13 ‐ 15 December 2011

Sub - Themes

Reflecting on past discussion
- Higher education access and equity
- Effects of global recession on higher education
Taking stock of plans constructed/abandoned
- Higher education regionalisation and harmonisation
- Staff/student mobility
- Attracting global talent
Sustainable futures
- Indigenous knowledge
- Advance civilisation
- Priority on humanity and nature
Education for rapid global socio‐cultural change‐beyond “business‐as‐usual”
- “The truly strategic of the 21st century”
- Futures in higher education: Futures studies courses‐ cases and designs
- Futures of higher education: Diverse alternatives from around the globe
- Inclusive higher education for the “bottom billion” and the most vulnerable
Education for rapid global socio‐cultural change‐beyond “business‐as‐usual”
- “Welcome to postnormal times”
- Complexity, creativity, imagination, innovation
- Transdisciplinary, integral studies, postnormal studies
- Role of media and civil societies in creating new knowledge and learning
Higher education to sustain a fragile planet
- “Pedagogy for sustainable futures”
- Impact of climate change on higher education futures
- Eco‐logical education
- Higher education in climate‐change vulnerable regions

Quality Assurance and University Rankings in Asia (Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia & IPPTN)
Higher Education and Human Capital Development between Malaysia and CLV Countries: Towards Strategic Partnership and Alliances (IPPTN)
Development of Higher Education and Its Future (IIUM Press & IPPTN)
Diversity of Higher Education Models (IIUM Press & IPPTN)