Palermo ‘ A European agenda for change for Higher education in the 21st Century’ 24-27.09.1997:

Working in close collaboration with UNESCO’s European Center for Higher Education (CEPES) from Bucharest, the Permanent Committee has decided to turn the CRE Autumn Bi-annual conferences into a European Forum preparing the ground for the European input to the World Conference on Higher Education organized by UNESCO in Paris from 28 September to 2 October 1998. The Conference included therefore a number and diversity of participants, including students, national authorities, local communities, employers, professional associations and trade unions.

The file contains preparatory correspondence and documents, the programme of the 49th Bi-annual conferences, the list of participants, the list of discussion groups and groups for case studies, as well as working documents, press cuttings, transcripts of speeches, a draft report and a declaration by the conference, as well as reports of the discussion groups.

Working documents include: Conference Planning Document; Documents related to the preparation meetings of the conference (Amsterdam, 19.12.1996; Paris, 09.06.1997; Dakar, 01-04.04.1997); Plenary presentation at the World Conference on Higher Education, by Marco Antonio Rodrigues Dias; Preparatory documents to the World Conference on Higher Education; ‘Scholarship reconsidered: priorities for a new century’ by Dr. Ernest Boyer; Notes of the World Federation of Teachers’ Unions; UNESCO Recommendation concerning the status of Higher Education Teaching personnel; ‘Some thoughts on the impact of globalization on higher engineering education’ by Francesco Maffioli; Comparative analysis of 20 institutional case studies and a preparatory report on these case studies prepared by Prof. John L. Davies.

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