Conference of Executive Heads

CYPRUS, 23 – 25 APRIL 2001

Monday 23 April

Session 1: Keynote Address on The European Union and Globalisation
Speaker: H.E. Dr George Vassiliou, Former President of the Republic of Cyprus and EU-Cyprus Chief Negotiator
Chair: Professor Kenneth Edwards, President, Association of European Universities

Session 2: Plenary Session on How the Commonwealth Achieves its Goals through Partnerships and Consensus (Transcript available)
Speaker: H.E. Don McKinnon, Secretary General of the Commonwealth and former foreign minister of New Zealand
Chair: Professor Samuel Adjepong, Vice-Chancellor, University of Cape Coast, Ghana and Immediate Past Chair, ACU

Session 3: Plenary session on Globalisation from the Perspective of the Private Sector: Public/private Sector Partnerships
Speakers: Ms Lee Bee Wah, Partner, LBW Consultants, Singapore and Dr Jeff Southerton, Portfolio Head, Strategic Alliances, Pfizer Limited, UK
Chair: Dr Graeme Fogelberg, Vice-Chancellor, University of Otago, New Zealand and Vice-Chair, ACU

 
Tuesday 24 April

Session 4: Working session on Public-private Sector Partnerships

Workshop 1: Organising for collaboration: developing an institutional strategy (Transcript provided)
Presenter:Professor R. Natarajan, Director, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
Chair: Professor Abdul Bayes, Vice-Chancellor, Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh
 
Workshop 2: How do industry and universities depend on each other?
Presenter: Professor Roger Needham, Director, Microsoft UK Ltd
Chair: Professor Jarlath Ronayne, Vice-Chancellor and President, Victoria University of Technology, Australia
 
Workshop 3: A lesson from America - The Futures Project: Policy for Higher Education in a Changing World
Presenter: Dr Frank Newman, Director, The Futures Project, Brown University, USA
Chair: Professor John Quelch, Dean, London Business School, UK
 
Workshop 4: Public-private partnerships in a developing economy
Presenter: Dr David Woods, Vice-Chancellor, Rhodes University, South Africa
Chair: Professor Sharon Siverts, Vice-Chancellor, University of Botswana
 
Workshop 5: How can government best encourage collaboration?
Presenter: Dr David Strangway, President and Chief Executive Officer, Canada Foundation for Innovation
Chair: Professor Peter Katjavivi, Vice-Chancellor, University of Namibia
 
Workshop 6: University-Industry links: what every vice-chancellor should know about intellectual property
Presenter: Professor Luke Georghiou, Executive Director, Policy Research in Engineering, Science and Technology (PREST), University of Manchester, UK
Chair: Professor Savitri Goonesekere, Vice-Chancellor, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka
 
Workshop 7: Partnerships in delivering learning: What use can / should universities make of the media?
Presenter: Karen Pole, Marketing Director, Telematica, UK
Chair: Professor Bryan Gould, Vice-Chancellor, University of Waikato, New Zealand

Session 5: Working session on New Regional Configurations: Trends and Implications

Workshop 1
The EU and other regional groupings: the International Network of Universities
Presenter: Professor Michael Osborne, Vice-Chancellor, La Trobe University, Australia
Chair: Professor Patrick Dowling, Vice-Chancellor, University of Surrey, UK
 
Workshop 2
The Indian Ocean connection
Presenter: Professor Goolam Mohamedbhai, Vice-Chancellor, University of Mauritius
Chair: Professor Pramod Talgeri, Vice-Chancellor, Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages, India
 
Workshop 3
The draw of the Pacific Rim - a Australian perception
Presenter: Professor Ingrid Moses, Vice-Chancellor, University of New England, Australia
Chair: Professor S.W. Tam, President, Open University of Hong Kong
 
Workshop 4
The Resurgence of Regional Governments: Universities and the "New Regionalism" (Transcript provided)
Presenter: Professor Charlie Jeffery, Institute for German Studies, University of Birmingham, UK
Chair: Professor Nimi Briggs, Vice-Chancellor, University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria
 
Workshop 5
The complementary value of ASEAN and Commonwealth membership (Workshop cancelled due to unavoidable circumstances)
Presenter: Dr Cham Tao Soon, President, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Chair: Professor Donald McNicol, Vice-Chancellor, University of Tasmania, Australia
 
Workshop 6
Universitas 21
Presenter: Professor Raewyn Dalziel, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Chair: Professor Kamal Dwivedi, Vice-Chancellor, Arunachal University, India
 
Workshop 7
The Southern African Development Community (SADC): does it make any real impact on issues such as health and education?
Presenter: Professor Kuzvinetsa Dzvimbo, Vice-Chancellor, Zimbabwe Open University
Chair: Professor David Rubadiri, Vice-Chancellor, University of Malawi
 
Workshop 8
Why is the higher education sector in the Commonwealth Caribbean connecting with Latin America?
Presenter: Dr Rae Davis, Vice-Chancellor, University of Technology, Jamaica
Chair: Dr Daniel O'Brien, President, St. Thomas University, Canada

Session 6: Plenary Session: An Insight into the EU's Policy and Programmes (Transcript provided - Mr Coyne)
Presenters: Dr Achilleas Mitsos, Director-General for Research, European Commission, Mr David Coyne, Director of Education, Directorate-General for Education and Culture, European Commission
Chair: H.E. Professor Senake Bandaranayake, Sri Lankan High Commissioner to India and former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka

Session 7: Working session on Teaching and Research Partnerships

Workshop 1
Partnerships and the IT Brain Drain: the Case of India (Transcript provided)
Presenter: Professor Ashok Parthasarathi, Centre for Studies in Science Policy, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Chair: Dr Subramanian Venkateswaran, Director, Birla Institute for Technology & Science, India
 
Workshop 2
Partnerships in distance learning: the genesis of the United States Open University (Transcript provided)
Presenter: Sir John Daniel, Assistant Director-General, UNESCO; former Vice-Chancellor, Open University and President, United States Open University
Chair: Professor Raj Dhanarajan, President, Commonwealth of Learning
 
Workshop 3
The practicalities of developing and maintaining university partnerships: the Glasgow/Strathclyde experience
Presenter: Professor Sir Graeme Davies, Principal, University of Glasgow, UK
Chair: Professor François Rajaoson, Secretary General, Association of African Universities
 
Workshop 4
A challenge to universities in the South: new ways of approaching partnerships (Transcript provided)
Presenter: H.E. Professor Senake Bandaranayake, Sri Lankan High Commissioner to India and former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka
Chair: Professor John Tarrant, Vice-Chancellor, University of Huddersfield, UK
 
Workshop 5
The scale, scope and sourcing of research management and international offices
Presenter: Dr John Kirkland, Director of Human Capacity Development, ACU
Chair: Professor Ivan Addae-Mensah, Vice-Chancellor, University of Ghana
 
Workshop 6
COS: The global expertise database as a route to developing teaching and research partnerships
Presenter: Mr Richard Tomlin, Managing Director, Community of Science (COS)
Chair: Professor David Ross, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, University of Abertay Dundee
 
Workshop 7
Issues, problems, policies: a snapshot of higher education in South Africa today
Presenter: Professor Cecil Abrahams, Former Vice-Chancellor, University of the Western Cape, South Africa
Chair: Professor David Robinson, Vice-Chancellor, Monash University, Australia

 
Wednesday 25 April

Session 8: Working session on Mobility of Staff and Students

Workshop 1: Does Erasmus meet its objectives? (Transcript provided)
Presenter: Dr Irving Mitchell, Head of Unit, Co-operation in Higher Education (SOCRATES Programme), Directorate Education, EU
Chair: Professor Michael Harloe, Vice-Chancellor, University of Salford, UK
 
Workshop 2: Developing links with South America
Presenter: Dr Jorge Taboada, Vice-Chancellor, Universidad Satelital (UNSAT), Argentina
Chair: Dr Frederick Lowy, Rector and Vice-Chancellor, Concordia University
 
Workshop 3: The Bologna Declaration on the European higher education arena (Transcript provided)
Presenter: Dr Guy Haug, Senior Advisor, Association of European Universities
Chair: Professor Robert Boucher, Vice-Chancellor, University of Sheffield, UK
 
Workshop 4: CUSAC: A New Force for Student Mobility
Presenter: Dr John Kirkland, Director of Human Capacity Development, ACU
Chair: Professor Frederick Kayanja, Vice-Chancellor, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Uganda
 
Workshop 5: The value to a small country of promoting international student mobility (Transcript provided)
Presenter: Dr Roger Svensson, Director, Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education (STINT)
Chair: Dr Thikoi Jonathan, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, National University of Lesotho

Session 9: Plenary sessions on Accessing funds: EU, NGOs, Charities, Private Sector
Chair: Professor George Eshiwani, Vice-Chancellor, Kenyatta University, Kenya
Panel members:
Dr Andreas Mallouppas, Director, Service for Research, International and Public Relations, University of Cyprus
Ms Clare Matterson, Director of Medicine, Society and History, Wellcome Trust, UK
Dr David Strangway, President and Chief Executive Officer, Canada Foundation for Innovation
Dr Roger Svensson, Managing Director, Swedish Foundation for International Co-operation in Research and Higher Education (STINT)

Session 10: Sectoral Meetings

Sector 1: How do universities justify their existence? (open session)
Chair:Professor Michael Gibbons, Secretary General, ACU
 
Sector 2: A new configuration of universities? Anticipating a forum for the modern universities in 2002 (closed session, report not available)
Chair: Professor Millicent Poole, Vice-Chancellor and President, Edith Cowan University, Australia
 
Sector 3: Forum for national university association Chairs and Executive Secretaries (closed session, report not available)
Convenor: Ms Svava Bjarnason, Head, Policy and Research Unit, Association of Commonwealth Universities

Session 11: Plenary Session on Universities' engagement with national development and civil society (Transcript available)
Speaker: Ms Oottupurakkal Velukkutty Usha, Director of Publishing, Mahatma Gandhi University at Kottayam, Kerala
Chair: Baroness Warwick, Chief Executive, Universities UK
Co-Chair: Professor Stephanos Stephanides, Associate Professor in English Literature, University of Cyprus