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Vertical differentiation in higher education

Vertical differentiation in higher education: Global Engagement, Global universities and Organisational capacity

Professor Tatiana Fumasoli Professor in Higher Education Studies, UCL Institute of Education.

Tatiana Fumasoli is Professor of Higher Education Studies at UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, where she is the director of the UCL Centre for Higher Education Studies. Her research interests lie at the intersection between management studies, organisation theory and sociology of professions and expertise. Tatiana has led several international projects focusing on global governance, strategic management and the academic profession. Her current projects investigate new practices of internationalisation, crisis management and networks of innovation in teaching and learning. She is the editor-in-chief of Higher Education Quarterly, a journal of SRHE Society for Research into Higher Education journal published by Wiley.

Webinar Details

Global engagement can be considered a key trend in higher education, a transition from more traditional practices of internationalisation to transformational change in university core activities. This presentation conceptualises global engagement as institutional redesign to impact society at local, national and global levels. This entails strategic organisational capacity to plan, carry out organisational development and allocate resources effectively. In parallel, global engagement is critiqued, pointing to how it increasingly divides so-called “world-class” universities from the rest of higher education institutions and highlighting the implications thereof.

This webinar took place online on 20th September at 1pm.

A recording of the webinar is below and also available at this link - (opens in a new window)https://youtu.be/U6jnxR4ttmo

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