Conference date: April 17-18th, 2008

IMHE Governing Board Meeting date: April 15-16th, 2008

Conference and IMHE Governing Board Meeting venue: Mykolas Romeris University, Ateities 20, Vilnius, Lithuania

 

Participant questionnaire: .  

Conference purpose: to analyze the implementation of flexible management principles dictated by the market of higher education, to analyze the demands of the labor market, career potential and competitiveness, financing problems of higher education, and to reveal good practices of cooperation between specialists and employers.

Conference topics:

1. Universities’ management under market conditions;

2. Analysis of the labor market’s needs;

3. Problems of contemporary management principles found in their applications to higher education;

4. Challenges, changes and innovations in higher education;

5. Effectiveness, economy and efficiency in higher education;

6. Financial problems in institutions of higher education;

7. The implementation of contemporary studying methods;

8. Transformations and dynamics of higher education;

9. The formation of university study programs by the labor market;

10. Graduate students’ career potentialities and competitiveness;

11. The interaction between employers and institutions of higher education;

12. Theoretical and practical training of specialists;

13. Good practices of higher education organization.

Conference languages: Lithuanian, English.

Conference paper: selected papers will appear in the publication „Higher Education Under Market Conditions: Theory and Practice“. Notes for Contributors .