> End of Quality? Two-day Seminar: UPDATE 1
> 25th-26th May 2001
> Chamberlain Tower Hotel and Conference Centre, Birmingham UK
>
> Confirmed keynote speakers at the international seminar 'End of Quality?'
> include:
>
> Professor Sigbrit Franke, Chancellor of the Swedish Universities
> Maria Jose Lemaitre, Comision Nacional de Acreditacion of Chile
> Dr Jethro Newton, Head of the Academic Office at the North East Wales
> Institute of Higher Education, University of Wales.
> Professor Lee Harvey, Director of the Centre for Research into Quality,
> UCE.
>
> The two-day seminar will bring together delegates from all over the world
> to discuss future direction and nature of quality in higher education. The
> focus will be on facilitated discussions augmented by keynotes and short
> parallel presentations.
> There will be three main themes for the seminar addressing aspects of 'The
> End of Quality?'
> Theme 1: Has external quality review had its day?
> Theme 2: Has control of quality been usurped by the market and by
> information technology?
> Theme 3: Does the development of mass education necessarily mean the end
> of quality?
>
> The Keynotes will cut across these themes and include:
>
> Internationalisation of HE
>
> Quality as Imperialism
>
> Views from below: academics coping with Quality
>
> Details of the event can be found at:
> http://www.qualityresearchinternational.com/eoq
>
> alternatively, contact:
> Professor Lee Harvey
> Centre for Research into Quality
> University of Central England in Birmingham
> 90 Aldridge Road
> Birmingham
> B42 2SU
> Tel: +44 121 331 6305
> Fax: +44 121 331 6379
> e-mail: [log in to unmask]
> Web: http://www.uce.ac.uk/crq
>
>
> Lee Harvey
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