International meet to take higher education to international standards

The faculty of Management, Symbiosis International University (SIU), will organise an international conference on ?Internationalisation of higher education- with special reference to management education? at its Lavale campus from October 14-15. The main issues that the conference will address are the building of world class universities, India?s policies on internationalisation of higher education, design and delivery of an international curriculum and internationalising the student body and also about international student recruitment, support and exchange.

As many as 110 delegates from across the world are expected to participate in the two-day conference. Vidya Yerwadekar, executive director, SIU said, ?This is for the first time that a conference has been planned on such a grand level. We will have people coming in from Singapore, Oman and even Harvard to talk about the various concerned issues.?

Dr Rajani Gupte, dean, Faculty of Management, who will be the convenor for the event said, ?With globalisation, trade in goods has expanded and the trade in services has grown rapidly too.

In the field of education, the most common form of this trade is the movement of students to study in foreign universities, which has been supplemented by the delivery of foreign higher education programs in developing countries. However, there are concerns in developing countries about the possible negative impacts of this trade on underfunded domestic higher education systems operating within rigid regulatory systems. All these issues will be addressed in the conference.?

The conference will be inaugurated by D. Purandeshwari, Minister of State for Human Resource Development (Higher Education), Government of India. The Deputy Director General, Private Universities & Colleges, Programs & Quality Assurance, Ministry of Higher Education, Sultanate of Oman will be the esteemed Guest of Honour.

Also, speakers from foreign universities like Nanyang Technological University-Singapore, Newcastle University- UK, Phillips- Universitat Marburg, Germany and New York University-US.