Higher education is tasked to drive innovation, equity, and social transformation. At a time of global uncertainty, conflict, and transformation, UNESCO’s Global Convention on the Recognition of Qualifications concerning Higher Education, the first UN treaty on higher education, offers a bold, forward-looking framework for engaging institutions to improve access, facilitate mobility and ensure fair recognition of qualifications.
While governments are the formal signatories, higher education institutions are critical actors in implementing the convention into practice. Higher education institutions make recognition decisions by assessing applicant’s qualifications, admitting students, recognizing prior learning, hiring faculty, and building partnerships across borders. Their engagement and alignment with the convention are essential to realizing its goals and ensuring fair and transparent recognition of qualifications. This webinar wishes to focus on the crucial role of higher education institutions as both guardians and executors on these processes.
Speakers include:
Noah Sobe, Chief of Section, Higher Education, UNESCO
Andreas Corcoran, Deputy Secretary General, International Association of Universities
Stig Arne Skjerven, UNESCO Chair for the Global Recognition Convention 2023-2027, Norway
Prof. Kiran Bhujun, Director, Tertiary Education and Scientific Research Division, Ministry of Tertiary Education, Science and Research, Mauritius
Peggy Zhu, Manager of Comparative Education Service, University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies