CONFERENCE
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NEWSLETTER SPECIAL ISSUE
The Eleventh IAU
General Conference took place in Durban, South Africa, from 22 to 25
August,
2000. It marked the Fiftieth Anniversary of the creation of the
Association,
under the auspices of UNESCO, in Nice in 1950.
The Conference,
hosted by the University
of Natal (external link), in collaboration with SAUVCA (external
link), the South African Universities Vice-Chancellors Association,
provided an occasion for some 300 higher education leaders from all
over the
world to discuss, at the dawn of the new millennium, the role of
Universities
as Gateway to the Future and to share their experience and reflections
in
setting an agenda for higher education for the twenty-first
century.
Conference Papers
Opening session
B.
Gourley (rtf, 56kb), Vice-Chancellor, University of Natal, W. Mori (rtf, 60kb), President, IAU, A.
van Wijk (rtf,
56 kb), Deputy Chairman, SAUVCA, N.
Tidjani-Serpos (rtf, 92kb),
Assistant-Director General, UNESCO, K.
Asmal (rtf, 76 kb), Minister of Education, Republic of South
Africa
Plenary I:
Changing Priorities – Constant Values
F. Roversi-Monaco (rtf,
72 kb), Rector, University of Bologna, Italy and M. Elmandjra (rtf, 84 kb),
Professor of International Relations, Futurist University Mohamed V,
Morocco
Plenary
panel I : Pramod Talgeri
(rtf, 140 kb), Vice-Chancellor, Central Institute
of English and Foreign
Languages, India, Juan
Tobias(rtf, 140 kb) Rector, University of Salvador,
Argentina , Lidia Brito
(rtf, 144 kb), Minister of Higher
Education, Science and Technology, Mozambique, David
Scott (rtf, 144 kb), Chancellor, University of
Massachusetts at
Amherst, U.S.A., Mahdi Elmandjra
(rtf, 146 kb), Professor of International
Relations,
Futurist University Mohammed V, Morocco
Plenary II:
Universities and the Knowledge Society
G. Dhanarajan (rtf, 80 kb),
President, Commonwealth of Learning, A.
Top (rtf, 96 kb), General Manager,
Alliance Technology and Informatics, K.F.
Seddoh (rtf, 88 kb), Directeur, Division de l’Enseignement
Supérieur, UNESCO
Plenary
panel II: Atsuo
Liyoshi (rtf, 140 kb), Chubu University, Japan, Brenda Gourley (rtf,
144 kb), Vice-Chancellor, University of Natal, South Africa, Adnan Badran (rtf, 140
kb), President,
Philadelphia University, Jordan, Kenneth
Edwards (rtf, 140 kb), President, Association of
European
Universities, H. Ian
Macdonald (rtf, 144 kb) Chairman, the Commonwealth of
Learning, Canada
Plenary III:
University Governance and the “Stakeholder Society”
S.O. Ikenberry
(rtf, 76 kb),
President, American Council of Education, I.
Serageldin (pdf, 2.05 Mb ), Vice-President, World Bank
Plenary
panel III: Virgilio
A.L. Meira Soares (rtf, 140 kb), Director, Research
Centre for Higher
Education Policy Portugal, Li
Yuee (rtf, 140 kb), Vice-President,
Shanxi University China, Juan Ramon de la Fuente (rtf,
144 kb), Rector, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de
México Mexique, Warren
Clewlow (rtf, 140 kb), Chairman, Barlow
Limited South Africa, Madeleine
Green (rtf, 140 kb), Vice-President American
Council on Education, U.S.A.
, Ismail Serageldin
(rtf, 148 kb), Vice-President The World Bank
Working Groups
1. Open
Discussion (rtf, 96 kb)
A.H. Walenta,
Rector, University of Siegen, Germany, V.A.L. Meira Soares, Director,
Research
Centre for Higher Education Policy, Portugal, M. Ouattara, Recteur,
Université
Polytechnique de Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso
2. Concept of
the “Social Responsibility” of the Universities (rtf, 96 kb)
G. Mohamedbhai,
Vice-Chancellor, University of Mauritius, Mauritius
3. The
implications for Academic Freedom and Autonomy (rtf, 112 kb)
J. Tobias, Rector, University of
Salvador, Argentina, B.
Salehpour, Vice-Chancellor for Research Affairs, University of Tabriz,
Iran
4. The Impact
of Information Technologies (rtf, 120 kb)
H.T. Jensen, Rector, Roskilde University,
Denmark
5. The
Contribution of Universities to Sustainable Development (rtf, 124
kb)
Li Yuee,
Vice-President, Shanxi University, China
6. The
requirements of Internationalization of Higher Education (rtf, 144
kb)
P. Talgeri, Vice-Chancellor, Central
Institute of English
and Foreign Languages, India, B. Burn, Ass. Provost, University of
Massachusetts at Amherst, U.S.A.
Closing
Session:
W. Mori
(rtf, 68 kb),
Outgoing President, IAU, H. van
Ginkel (rtf, 80 kb),
New President, IAU
Conference
General Report (rtf, 88 kb)
I. Moses, General Rapporteur
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