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  • IE University organizes on October 7th and 8th in Madrid the fourth edition of its conference Reinventing Higher Education
  • Twenty-four experts from over USA, Asia, Latin America, Europe and Middle East will share they ideas about the coming tendencies in the sector.
  • This year, the conference will have the collaboration of British Council in a panel about University System in United Kingdom.
  • A panel with the Universidad Carlos III Rector, IE University Rector and the General Director of the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, will address the challenges of internationalization in Spain’s Universities and how to attract talented students.

On 7th and 8th October 2013, IE University’s International Conference Reinventing Higher Education will take place in Madrid.  Representatives from university institutions and opinion leaders from USA, Asia, Latin America, Europe and Middle East will take part on it. This year edition is called “Time for New Frontiers and Cross-Collaboration” and has as its main goal serve as a platform for academics, university CEOs, politicians and opinion leaders to examine the changes in higher education.

Among the speakers we can find representatives from universities and institutions as the British Council, Qatar Foundation, World Economic Forum, UK Government, Fundació Getulio Vargas, University of Chicago, European Commission, Universidad Carlos III, University of Kuala Lumpur, University of Law, University of Leeds and University of Nottingham. The complete list of speakers can be seen at: www.rhe.ie.edu/speakers.php

This year IE University has the collaboration with British Council, and together they have organized a panel about UK university system, where the General Director of Education an Society of British Council, a UK Government representative and directives from Universities of Leeds, Notthingham and University of Law will talk. This discussion will analyse the changes occurring in UK’s university system, that reflects on the European sector the future changes that may be coming.

The conference begins with a panel which will discuss the internationalization challenges faced by Spanish universities. The participants are Daniel Peña, Rector of Universidad Carlos III of Madrid, Teresa García-Milá, General Director of the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, and Salvador Carmona, Rector of IE University. A group of experts will analyze the impact of higher education as a driving force for national economies and the growth of new training experiences by technology as the already known MOOCs.

The first three editions congregated more than one hundred and twenty experts on areas like higher education management, education policies and investigation; this resulted in some highly stimulant debates about some of the crucial challenges on the academic sector.

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