SPEAKERS
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Prof. Ossi V. Lindqvist, Chair of Finnish Higher Education Evaluation Council, “Quality of Higher Education and the HE market”
Richard Yelland, Head, Educational Management and Infrastructure Division, Directorate for Education, OECD, “Some global trends in higher education and the OECD response”. Presentation 
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Sverre Rustad, Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research, “National and institutional strategies in a changing landscape: a Norwegian reform proposal”. Presentation .
Dr. Mohamed Loutfi, University of Sunderland, “Education Employment Gap, why the Mismatch”. Presentation .
Dr. Terri Kim, Brunel University, “Changing university governance and management in the UK and elsewhere: issues of accountability and quality assurance under market influence”. Presentation .
Prof. Juozas Ruzevicius (Vilnius University), Dr. Dalius Serafinas (Vilnius University), Daiva Daugviliene (Vilnius Law and Business College), “Insights of quality management implementation at higher education institutions”
Gintaras Steponavičius (member of Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania), Kęstutis Peleckis (senior lecturer of Vilnius Gediminas Technical University), Vytautas Šlapkauskas (professor of Mykolas Romeris University)
Birutė Mikulskienė (senior lecturer of Mykolas Romeris University, presentation ), Ramūnas Vanagas (lecturer of Mykolas Romeris University), Jadvyga Čiburienė (professor of Kaunas University of Technology), Jūratė Guščinskienė (senior lecturer of Kaunas University of Technology), Aurelija Pūraite (lecturer of Mykolas Romeris University) and Birutė Pranevičienė (senior lecturer of Mykolas Romeris University) and Vaiva Zuzevičiūtė (senior lecturer of Vytautas Magnus University) and Ilona Tandzegolskienė (lecturer of Vytautas Magnus University, presentation ), Eugenija Gečienė (senior lecturer of Klaipėda Business and Technology College) and Ilvija Pikturnaitė (senior lecturer of Klaipėda Business and Technology College, presentation ), Dalia Rudytė (senior lecturer of Siauliai University ) and Kristina Levišauskaitė (professor of Vytautas Magnus University, presentation ), Margarita Išoraitė (senior lecturer of Mykolas Romeris University, presentation ), Rasa Grigolienė (general deputy for studies at Klaipėda Business College), Sonata Mačiulskytė (chief officer at science and strategic development of Klaipėda Business College), Dalė Dzemydienė (professor of Mykolas Romeris University, presentation ), Giedrius Čyras (postgraduate of Vilnius Gediminas Technical University), Marius Lanskoronskis (ISM University of Management and Economics), Petras Baršauskas (professor of ISM University of Management and Economics)
ABOUT SPEAKERS:
Professor Ellen Hazelkorn is a Director of the Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland (http://www.dit.ie/), Dean of its Faculty of Applied Arts ellen.hazelkorn@dit.ie), and Director of the Higher Education Policy Research Unit (HEPRU) (http://www.cser.ie/hepru.htm). She also works as a Consultant to the OECD’s Programme on Institutional Management of Higher Education (IMHE) and is associated with the OECD Centre for Co-operation with Non-Members, and the International Association of Universities (IAU). Ellen has recently been appointed to the EU Expert Group on ‘Assessment of university-based research beyond strict academic output in European Universities’.
Ellen has worked with universities and university associations around the world, including New Zealand, Australia, the Netherlands, Denmark, Belgium, Jamaica and Lesotho, and is regularly invited as a keynote speaker on issues of higher education policy and management, institutional diversity, research strategy, and rankings, global competition and quality. She is a member of the Editorial Boards of Higher Education Management and Policy (OECD) and Higher Education Policy (IAU), Contributing Editor of Science and Society (NY), and member of the International Ranking Expert Group (IREG) founded in 2004 by UNESCO-CEPES and IHEP (see http://www.ihep.org/Organization/Press/Berlin_Principles_Release.pdf). Ellen is on the Executive Committee of the Dean and European Academic Network (DEAN) and was Company Secretary and Board Member of the Contemporary Music Centre, Dublin (2001-2007). She leads a consortium of European academic, research and industrial institutions developing EU research programmes in intelligent digital content.
Professor Hazelkorn has published articles and books on Irish politics and society; digital technologies, gender, work practices and the cultural industries; relations between the media and the state; and higher education policy. Her study, Developing Research in New Institutions, was published by OECD (September, 2005; reference).
Professor Hazelkorn is currently leading an international research project on the impact and influence of league tables and ranking systems on higher education decision-making and government policy-making, and has recently organised an international conference entitled Higher Education in the 21st Century – Diversity of Missions (http://www.heconference.dit.ie), June 2007 – both in association with IMHE and IAU. She is currently working with the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP; http://www.ihep.org/) on a ‘New Agenda for College and University Ranking’.
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Ossi V. Lindqvist was elected chairman of the Finnish Higher Education Evaluation Council from 2000 to 2003 and again for a second term from 2004 to 2007. Before retiring in 2004, he served as director and professor at the Institute of Applied Biotechnology at the University of Kuopio, Finland. From 1990 to 1998, he served as Rector of this University. He has also served as chairman of the Finnish University Rectors’ Council from 1993 to 1997, was member of the National Council for Science and Technology Policy from 1996 to 1999, and he is a lifetime foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry. He was professor at the University of Dayton, Ohio, USA from 1970 to 1972. Dr. Lindqvist holds a Ph.D. from the University of Turku.
Dr. Lindqvist has served as evaluator or in an advisory role for several dozen European, and especially eastern European universities. His current specialties cover management and technology transfer issues in HE, as well as quality assurance in HE institutions. His most recent speaking engagements have been to several Arab countries and sub-Saharan Africa.
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Richard Yelland is Head of the Education Management and Infrastructure Division in the OECD Directorate for Education. This Division is responsible for the work of the Programme on Institutional Management in Higher Education (IMHE) and the Programme on Educational Building (PEB).
Richard joined OECD in 1986 from the then Department of Education and Science in the United Kingdom where he had held a range of posts in educational policy and administration since 1974. He has led PEB since 1989. Following a secondment to the University of Adelaide, South Australia, he was given the additional responsibility for IMHE in 1998.
Richard has been responsible for or contributed to a range of OECD publications on higher education and educational infrastructure. He is frequently invited to address international and national meetings on different aspects of education.
Richard is a member of the Advisory Board of the UNESCO Centre for European Higher Education (CEPES), and of the International Advisory Network for the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education in the United Kingdom. He has contributed as an international expert to the evaluation of educational institutions and programmes in Belgium and France.
Richard is 55 years old and was born and educated in England. He studied Mathematics and Religious Studies at Cambridge University. He and his wife, Anne, have one child at secondary school in France, and two at university in England.
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Sverre Rustad is a deputy director general in the Department of Higher Education in the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research, where his main responsibilities lie within the field of education policy. He has a degree in English Literature from the University of Oslo and previously worked as lecturer in English at several Norwegian universities and colleges. He has been extensively involved in the Bologna Process, both as a member of the secretariat, of several working groups and of the Bologna Follow-up Group. At the national level he chaired the working group preparing the introduction of the bachelor-master degree structure in Norway and the group preparing a proposal for a national qualifications framework for higher education. Recently he has been secretary to a government commission on reform of Norwegian higher education, which presented its report in January 2008.
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Dr Mohamed Loutfi is the Head of Transnational Education at the University of Sunderland, School of Computing and Technology. This role exposes him exposure to the higher education systems in several countries.
Dr Loutfi holds a BSc in Economics and Political Science, an MSc in Information Technology and a PhD in Systems Thinking. Systems thinking is the paradigm which promotes an holistic as opposed to an analytic view of management and allows a more flexible, creative approach to problem solving whilst recognising the thin boundary between control and autonomy. He believes in the joining of theory and practice and that the traditional paradigm is not appropriate to the modern, global, inter-connected multi-cultural world in which we now live.
Dr Loutfi worked on several projects for Education Reforms, Accreditation and Quality assurance in Ukraine, Lebanon and Egypt. He is currently working with the Lebanese ministry of Higher Education to the Lebanese higher education institutions aware of the European higher education quality models and allows them to benefit from the European experiences in the field of quality assurance.
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Terri Kim is a Lecturer at Brunel University, and an Associate of the Centre for Higher Education Research and Innovation (CHERI), Open University in the UK. Previously, she worked as a research consultant for OECD/CERI; a Visiting Research Scholar in International Relations at LSE in London; a Brain Korea 21 Contract Professor at Seoul National University in Korea; and a Visiting Scholar at the I.E.C., College de France in Paris. Currently, she is an editorial board member of the Gender and Education journal, and has recently participated in the OECD University Futures Project and worked as International Convener of the Higher Education Thematic Group for the XIII World Congress of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES) in Sarajevo.
Her research interests include international politics, historical sociology, neoliberal economic globalisation, higher education policy, governance, and organisational change, international academic recruitment policy and practice, and transnational academic mobility and intercultural identities.
She received the CESE Women s Network Prize for Excellence in presenting a best comparative research paper at the XXII CESE (Comparative Education Society in Europe) Conference held in Granada, 2006.
She is the author of Forming the Academic Profession in East Asia: a Comparative Analysis (Book published by Routledge in New York and London in 2001), and many articles published internationally in the field of comparative higher education – including the most recent article, ‘Transnational Academic Mobility in a Global Knowledge Economy’, which will be published in The World Yearbook of Education 2008 Geography of Knowledge, Geometries of Power: Higher Education in the 21st Century (Routledge, forthcoming).
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Professor of Vilnius University. Professor at International Business School of Vilnius University, Dr. habil. of quality management and administration. Head of National Quality Programme. Head of Masters Programme “Quality Management” at Vilnius University. Author over 200 scientific articles and 8 books in Quality Management. Member of Academic Board of European Universities Network for Total Quality Management EUN.TQM (EFQM, Brussels). Member of Executive Board of International Society for Commodity Science IGWT (Vienna). Expert of Public Sector Organizations Quality Assessment. Expert of Organizations Leadership Assessment. President of Lithuanian Society of Commodity Science. Quality consultant and Auditor.
E-mail: juozas.ruzevicius@ef.vu.lt
Phone: +370 5 236 6155; Fax: +370 5 236 6127; Mob. (GSM): +370 686 09710
Address: Sauletekio al. 22, International Business Shool, Vilnius, LT-10225, LITHUANIA
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Assoc. prof. of Quality Management, Vilnius University, Lithuania. BVQI quality management auditor, business consultant, Director of Quality Management Consulting Company “Business Grain Baltic”. National Quality Award Assessor; Expert of Organizations Leadership Assessment. Author over 30 articles in Quality Management.
E-mail: dalius@kvalitetas.lt; dalius.serafinas@ef.vu.lt
Phone: +370 5 236 6154; Fax: +370 5 236 6127; Mob. (GSM): +370 687 76262
Address: Sauletekio al. 9, bld.2, room 704
Faculty of Economics, Vilnius University, Vilnius, LT-10222, LITHUANIA
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Daiva Daugviliene has founded and has been directing Vilnius Law and Business College for ten years already. Vilnius Law and Business College is an accredited institution of higher education providing Professional Bachelor’s degree and professional qualification to the College graduates. It is also the biggest non-state College in Lithuania. Currently there are almost 6000 students and over 300 academic staff in the College. In 2006 the international institution Bureau Veritas Quality International certified that the Management System of the College meets the requirements of the international standard ISO 9001:2000. Daiva Daugvilienė not only introduced a quality management system in the College, but she also is an active scientist. Her scientific papers are being regularly published in local and foreign publications of social sciences. Daiva Daugvilienė is also actively participating and delivering presentations in local and international conferences. The field of Daugvilienė’s scientific researches comprises quality of studies, as well as the peculiarities and solvability means of implementation of education quality assurance system in a higher education institution
E-mail: daiva@vtvk.lt
Phone: +370 5 246 0300; Mob. (GSM): +370 687 29045
Address: VTVK, Laisvės pr. 58, Vilnius, LT-05120, LITHUANIA
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