TRIUMPH OF THE BRICS? Higher Education Expansion in the Global Economy

TRIUMPH OF THE
BRICS? 

Higher Education Expansion in the Global Economy

This day
long conference is based on a major study of higher education expansion and
quality in the world's four largest developing economies-Brazil, Russia,
India, and China-known as the BRIC countries. These four economies are
already important players globally, but by mid-century, they are likely to be
economic powerhouses. Whether they reach that level of development will
depend partly on how successfully they create quality higher education that
puts their labor forces at the cutting edge of the information society. It is
difficult to imagine large economies reaching advanced stages of development
in the 21st century without high levels of innovative, well-trained, socially
oriented professionals.

The study
places particular emphasis on how the BRICs are expanding engineering higher
education and the quality and equity of that expansion. Evaluating the
potential success of the BRIC countries in developing highly skilled
professionals is not the only reason to study their higher education systems.
We want to learn how these governments go about organizing higher education
because this can tell us a lot about their implicit economic, social, and
political goals, and their capacity to reach them. Although the BRICs are
acutely aware of their new role in the global economy, their governments must
negotiate complex political demands at home, including ensuring domestic
economic growth, social mobility, and political participation. Because more
and better higher education is positively associated with all these elements,
BRIC governments' focus on their university systems has become an important
part of their domestic economic and social policy.

The conference involves
all the authors of the study from China, India, Russia, and the United
States, as well as expert discussants from Brazil and the United States. The
various panels of the day-long discussion will focus on various aspects of
change in the higher education systems in the BRICs.

The event is open to all and will be
presented in English

Date: April 28

Time: 8:00 am to 5:00 pm (California Time)

Local: at Stanford in Bechtel Conference Center -
Freeman Spogli Institute or online via webinar (see below registration form)

Schedule: click here to see the event schedule.

Speakers: click here to see the speakers' bio.

Registration: click here to register for the sessions.

Speakers

Presenters:
Martin Carnoy - Isak Froumin - Maria Dobryakova - Jandhyala Tilak - Wang Rong
- Rafiq Dossani - Katherine Kuhns - Prashant Loyalka

Discussants: Francisco
Ramirez - Gustavo Fischman - Robert Verhine - Nicholas Hope - Eric Bettinger
- Simon Schwartzman - Sheri Sheppard - Anthony Antonio - Philip Altbach

Co-Sponsored by

Freeman Spogli Institute,
U.S. Department of Education, Office of Post-Secondary Education, Stanford
School of Education Lemann Center for Educational Entrepreneurship and
Innovation in Brazil, Center for Latin American Studies at Stanford, State
Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, China Institute for
Educational Finance Research at Peking University, and National University of
Educational Policy and Administration, Delhi