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UNESCO 2009 World Conference on Higher Education

The 2009 World Conference on Higher Education (WCHE) will be held at UNESCO headquarters in Paris from 5 - 8 July 2009. It will take stock of changes in higher education since the first World Conference of 1998 and will deal with "The New Dynamics of Higher Education and Research for Societal Change and Development".

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GUNI organizes a special event at the UNESCO 2009 World Conference on Higher Education

The new GUNI publication Higher Education at a Time of Transformation: New Dynamics for Social Responsibility, to be presented during the special event, is one of the resource documents for the conference.

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New GUNI publication: “Higher Education at a Time of Transformation: New Dynamics for Social Responsibility”

The new publication, a synthesis drawn from the three reports Higher Education in the World, from the series the Social Commitment of Universities, will be presented next July in Paris on the occasion of the Second World Conference on Higher Education within the framework of a special GUNI session.

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"Practice-research engagement helps universities become more relevant to societies"

The Harvard University Professor, L. David Brown, talked with GUNI about how higher education in the United States faces the challenges for human and social...

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MIT´s Poverty Lab: Research linked to "glocal" necessities

The Poverty Action Lab develops a method to evaluate the effectiveness of scientific cooperation activities and development aid. To do this, it works in...