Date: Tuesday 9 August 2022
Time: 12.00 – 1.30pm AEST
Location: Online
It seems that China’s international higher education environment may be changing. The China Studies Centre has organised a Roundtable for 9 August to discuss the most recent prospects.
Topics of particular interest include:
1. Several of China’s leading universities have announced their withdrawal from international ranking schemes. How do more China-focussed measures of performance feed into the push for world-class universities.
2. There seems to be a push to discourage Chinese students from going overseas for international education opportunities, as for example in the postponement of US placement exams and continuing concerns about Covid-19 pandemic control. Is this likely to continue, and if so for how long and under what conditions
3. What are the prospects for recruitment of Chinese students to Australian universities.
4. What are the prospects for China’s international cooperation in higher education, both in research and in delivery of joint venture programs and institutions in China.
The participants in this Roundtable include academic managers and leaders, academics with an interest in international higher education (China’s and more generally), and those with experience of joint venture higher education institutions.
Moderator:
• Anthony Welch, The University of Sydney
Anthony Welch is Professor of Education, University of Sydney. His numerous publications address education reforms, principally within Australia, and the Asia-Pacific, mainly on Higher Education. He has advised state, national and international agencies, governments, institutions and foundations in Australia, the USA, Europe, East, Central, and Southeast Asia and. Project experience, largely in higher education. His work appears in a dozen European and Asian languages, and he has been Visiting Professor in the USA, UK, Germany, France, Japan, Malaysia, Turkey, Sweden, and Hong Kong (China) and China.
About the speakers:
• Cao Cong, Nottingham Ningbo University
Educated in both China and the U.S. and in both the natural and social sciences, Professor Cao has worked at the University of Oregon, the National University of Singapore, the State University of New York, and the University of Nottingham before joining the University of Nottingham Ningbo China in 2015. As a prolific scholar in the field of the social sciences of science, technology, and innovation in China, Professor Cao has published extensively in scientific elite; human resources in science and technology; innovation and entrepreneurship in nanotechnology and biotechnology; and the reform of science and technology system.
• Futao Huang, Hiroshima University
Dr. Futao Huang is Professor at the Research Institute for Higher Education, Hiroshima University, Japan. Before he came to Japan in 1999, he taught and conducted research in several Chinese universities. His main research interests include internationalization of higher education, the academic profession, and higher education in East Asia. He has published widely in Chinese, English and Japanese languages.
• Michael Milne, The University of Sydney Centre in China
Michael Milne was appointed as the Executive Director of the University of Sydney’s China Centre in late 2018. He has worked at the University of Sydney since 2010, as Chief Operating Officer of the University’s Brain and Mind Centre till 2013 and then as the Chief Operating Officer of the Charles Perkins Centre till 2019. He has worked in various roles in the higher education and public sector for more than 25 years.
• Kathy Robertson, Duke Kunshan University
Katherine Robertson is the Director of Faculty Advancement at Duke Kunshan University in China. She has worked at DKU for five years, mostly in the areas of faculty affairs and faculty development, and has published several articles on pedagogy and faculty development. Prior to joining DKU, Robertson lived in the US, where she did postdoctoral research at Carnegie Mellon University, and was a member of the faculty at Duquesne University and Westminster College. She has a PhD in Development Biology from the University of London, UK.
• Yang Rui, Hong Kong University
Rui Yang is Professor and Associate Dean (Cross-border and/or International Engagement) in the Faculty of Education at The University of Hong Kong. With over two and a half decades of academic career in China, Australia and Hong Kong, he has gained extensive experiences and contributed to leadership, with an impressive track record on research at the interface of Chinese and Western traditions in education.
• Iain Watt, University of Technology Sydney
Iain Watt joined UTS in June 2018 as Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President (International). Iain is responsible for envisioning and driving the implementation of UTS’s next stage of internationalisation. He has extensive international experience and a record of significant and successful leadership in international education.