News:India Seeks Help From Britain in Opening World-Class University

From The Chronicle of Higher Ed. News Blog posted by Andrew Mytelka May 28 2008:

New Delhi — India has asked Britain for help in setting up a world-class central university in what one local newspaper reported is the first such request for foreign assistance in almost 50 years. India has not asked for foreign help to establish a university since it sought assistance in the late 1950s and early 1960s from the Soviet Union, Britain, and West Germany to create some of the older Indian Institutes of Technology, the newspaper, The Telegraph, said.

Last year India’s prime minister announced that the country would set up 14 world-class central universities to compete with institutions like Harvard and Cambridge. The locations of the universities were announced in March.

“We want the help in the form of skill development, faculty support, and necessary training,” said D. Purandeswari, India’s junior higher-education minister, according to a statement issued after meetings this week with Bill Rammell, Britain’s higher-education minister.

Indian officials were looking to settle details of the collaboration as soon as possible because the new academic session in India starts in July, but Mr. Rammell did not commit to any timeline. Further talks to iron out the details are scheduled to be held in July in London. —Shailaja Neelakantan

 

OECD Conference: “Higher Education: Spaces and Places for Learning, Innovation and Knowledge Transfer”, 21-23 May 2008, Helsinki, Finland

From OECD:

The OECD is holding a conference on “higher education: spaces and places for learning, innovation and knowledge transfer” on the 21-23 May 2008 in Helsinki, Finland.

The conference will examine the trends in higher education and their impact on the variety of spaces and places used such as offices, laboratories or social spaces. It aims to bring together policy makers, higher education leaders and managers, academics, designers and developers, to analyse these issues and exchange ideas on developing better and more responsive physical environments.

Please note that the event has limited capacity and priority will be given to those who register early. The deadline to register with the early bird fee is the 11 April 2008, while the final deadline for registration is the 9 May 2008.

For further information please visit the conference website.

 

Video:Keynote speech_Open Learn2007conference_ John Seeley Brown.

The keynote session of the OpenLearn2007 conference given by John Seeley Brown.

The ways in which people can learn are changing with new opportunities to learn at a distance, to learn as part of global community and to learn using new technologies. Open and free educational resources are an important component in this expanded world of learning and major initiatives are now underway to provide such resources.

Link: http://stadium.open.ac.uk/stadia/preview.php?whichevent=1063&s=31

 

Conference: OpenLearn Conference 2007

The OpenLearn 2007 conference, organized by the Open University in UK will happen next 30 and 31 October 2007. The ways in which people can learn are changing with new opportunities to learn at a distance, to learn as part of global community and to learn using new technologies. Open and free educational resources are an important component in this expanded world of learning and major initiatives are now underway to provide such resources. This conference recognises the research challenge alongside the business challenge of providing, using and sustaining free and open resources and invites contributions and participation from those who are interested in how to research open content and what the findings are from those working in this challenging area. Conference participation will be over two days near The Open University in Milton Keynes. There will be no charge for attendance with priority for registration given to those responding to the call for papers. Selected papers will be developed for publication in a special issue of the Journal of Interactive Media in Education. Location: Milton Keynes Country: United Kingdom Source The Open University UK

OpenLearn 2007 conference flyer (PDF, 685 KB)

 

Conference: “Translation and Transitions”_Call for papers for conference ddressing the literary exchange between languages and nations of the Americas and Europe, across time and space.

Thanks to Linda Tabb for the link:

CALL FOR PAPERS:

“Translation and Transitions”

University of Miami, Coral Gables

Department of Modern Languages and Literature

Department of English

February 15 -16, 2008

This conference invites papers addressing the literary exchange between languages and nations of the Americas and Europe, across time and space.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

• Translations between genres and/or disciplines, cultural gaps in translations and/or transitions, semiotics
• and immigration, the process of translation, politics and cultural production, spaces of displacement
• and transitions, “high” and “low” culture, oral traditions and translations, the role of translation within society.

Graduate Conference - Call for Papers.pdf (188k bytes) Open

 

PRISMS OF GLOBALIZATION SEMINAR SERIES, Fall 2007, UIUC

These seminars at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are usually later posted online, thus you can access eventually to then if you have not the opportunity before.
Prisms lectures Fall 2007.
The Future of Energy Use in the US and the World
Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:30:00 CDT
With China experiencing double-digit energy growth, oil and natural gas prices reaching historic highs, and concern about global warming motivating even the average citizen, the future of energy use in the US and the world is…
Global Energy Trends: The Supply/Demand, the Technology and the Policy Dimensions
Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:30:00 CDT
This presentation outlines the large challenges in the policy and technology arenas in shaping effective solutions for the energy future. Important themes are the tight coupling between energy and the environment and the impe…
Smart Grid: Key to a Sustainable Energy Infrastructure
Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:30:00 CST
Global climate change looms over us all, and drives society toward creating a truly sustainable energy infrastructure, one that is carbon neutral and does not limit the growth rate in developed and developing nations. However…

A list of older Prism lectures with accompanying materials such as Powerpoint Presentations, can be found at the Prisms of Globalization Seminars Archive.

 

News: G8-UNESCO World Forum on ‘Education, Research and Innovation: New Partnership for Sustainable Development’

This G8 in collaboration with UNESCO, have organize a forum on ‘Education, Research and Innovation: New Partnership for Sustainable Development’  to be celebrated at  Trieste, Italy, 10-12 May 2007l

The Forum builds on the discussion launched at the St. Petersburg summit on the interconnections between the three components of the triangle of knowledge—education, scientific research and technological innovation—from the perspective of sustainable development, and seeks to identify risks and opportunities for industrialized countries as well as developing and low-income countries.

The discussion will be presented by speakers from the educational, scientific and business worlds, drawn from G8 countries as well as developing countries. The Forum is intended as an opportunity for discussion and no final document is foreseen.