IMHE Biennial Conference 13-15 September 2010 – Higher Education in a World Changed Utterly Doing More with Less

OECD Round Table on Higher Education in Regional and City Development 15-16 September 2010

These two meetings together provided an invaluable overview of and debate on big issues confronting higher education following, or rather perhaps one should say in the midst of, the global financial crisis; and of its relationship to the world and the regions that HEIs inhabit. The Round Table was a work-in-progress workshop for regions involved in the 2^nd round of OECD reviews of higher education in regional and (in this 2^nd round of reviews specifically) city development. The emphasis on cities or city-regions in this second round well reflects the nature of many of the regions involved, and of others planning to join the 3^rd cycle of work.