International Conference: ”The University Purpose and Institutional Autonomy: Challenges and their Impact on Georgia”

This two-day international conference The University Purpose and Institutional Autonomy: Challenges and their Impact on Georgia is organised by East European University & Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University on October 29-30, 2021.

The conference aims to explore within an international context those issues in Georgian higher education which directly bear on social, cultural, economic and political development of the country. It is especially important to answer the following questions:

What should be the purpose of higher education in Georgia?
What are strengths and weaknesses of higher education in contemporary Georgia?
What are the solutions to the existing problems?
How higher education can promote the social, cultural, economic and political development of the country?
What is the economic environment within which the higher education system in Georgia functions and what are main challenges in this regard?
How autonomous are higher education institutions in Georgia?
What is the degree of academic freedom in higher education institutions in Georgia?

The papers can cover a wide range of theoretical, scholarly and empirical work in international and Georgian contexts. The abstract submitted for consideration should represent original work that has not been published elsewhere.

The conference will consider papers from wide range of areas which fall within the themes of the conference. These include but are not limited to: academic freedom, discipline development, transdisciplinarity, autonomy, governance, quality assurance and assessment, international development, employment etc.

The topic of the first day is “The Being of the University”;
The topic ot the second day is “The Reality of the Institutional Autonomy in Universities”.

The discussions will take place at the end of the first and second days. At the end of the conference, a summary document will be developed, which will reflect the results of the review of papers presented at the conference and will identify the recommendations that will meet the purpose of the conference.

Target audience of the conference: doctoral students, post-doctoral students, researchers, specialists in the field from any educational institution.

Meeting format: face-to-face and/or virtual

Working languages of the conference: Georgian, English

Speech and discussion: 20 minutes speech, 10 minutes for Q&A.

Registration fee: Fully funded by the organizing universities.

To participate in the conference, it is necessary to:

Important dates:

Keynote speakers

To participate in the conference, it is necessary to:

To fill in the registration form and upload the abstract, please visit the following link: https://conference.edu.ge/post/item/143/en
General requirements for submitting an abstract: paper size: A4, file type: pdf, words: 150 to 300, font: Times New Roman; Text size: 12, spacing: 1.5;

Important dates:

Registration and abstracts deadline:	August 10, 2021
Confirmation of participation in the conference for the authors of the selected abstracts:	August 15, 2021

Successful abstracts will be selected on the basis of a blind review by the academic committee of the conference. The detailed programme will be sent to the conference participants one month in advance via Email. Conference proceedings will be published in print and electronically.

Keynote speakers

Emeritus Professor Ronald Barnett (University College London, UCL)

Ronald Barnett is Emeritus Professor of Higher Education at University College London Institute of Education (where he was both Dean of Professional Development and (subsequently) Pro-Director for Longer Term Strategy). He is the inaugural President of the Philosophy and Theory in Higher Education Society. In his academic work, he has been leading the development of a new sub-field, the philosophy of higher education. He has characterised his position as that of a social philosophy of the university, at once realist, critical, imaginative, and practical, in which he has been attempting to identify concepts and principles that offer ways of enhancing universities and higher education in an uncertain age

Professor Peter Maassen (University of Oslo).

Peter Maassen is Professor in Higher Education Studies and deputy head/research coordinator at the Department for Educational Research, Faculty of Education, University of Oslo, where he also is the academic coordinator of an Erasmus Mundus joint Master Degree programme. Previously he has been the director of the Center for Higher Education Policy Studies (CHEPS), University of Twente, the Netherlands (1997-2000). His areas of academic specialization include the public governance (including policy reform and institutional change) of higher education; university leadership and management; organisational change in higher education; and the economic role of higher education institutions, in OECD countries, as well as in Sub-Saharan Africa.

additional information and Contact:

for more details visit: https://conference.edu.ge/

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International Conference: ”The University Purpose and Institutional Autonomy: Challenges and their Impact on Georgia”

To participate in the conference, it is necessary to:

Important dates:

Keynote speakers

additional information and Contact:

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