The programme for the conference is available below. Delegates are listed according to the session in which they appear. Clicking on the Session Title will take you to the abstracts (where available) for that session. Each delegate is listed according to their affiliation.

Final Conference Programme (v.1.6)

Tuesday 9th August 2005
from 10.00
Registration

11.00
Welcome and Opening Words
Rob Fisher and David Preston

11:15
Keynote Address

Tom Claes
Education, The University and the History of the Culture-Concept

12:45
Lunch

14.15
Session 1: Access, Exclusion and Key Skills
Chair: Susan Holland

Marian Fitzmaurice & Dave Kilmartin
Designing Learning in Higher Education: The Role of Key Skills

Kirti Menon & Nhlanhla Cele
Reviewing Access in Higher Education in South Africa

Carole Doyle
Education, Education, Education: A Quick Fix Solution to a Long Term Problem. Can Education Solve Social Exclusion

15:45
Refreshment Break

16:15
Session 2: Careers, Strategies and Motivation
Chair: Frank McMahon

Natalia Forrat
Professional Career Perspectives for Young Scholars in Russian Regions

Susan Holland
Challenges in a Cross-Cultural University Setting: Students and Teachers’ Adaptive Strategies

Fernanda Martins
Differentiating Schools through Subjective Measures: The Role of Student’s Academic Motivation and Satisfaction

17:45
Wine Reception

 

Wednesday 10th August 2005

09.00
Session 3: Citizenship, Technology and Education
Chair: Kirti Menon

Annukka Hulkko
Education, Democracy and Citizenship

Inna Geoghegan
Teaching and Learning Online: Developing a Theoretical Perspective

Sonya Rahimi
E-Learning, An Approach to Enhance Teaching and Learning in a South African Context

10:30
Refreshment Break

11:00
Session 4: Global Education, Online Training & the Age of the Internet
Chair: Sonya Rahimi

Jolanta Chec
Global Education using Global Information Infrastructure

Mohamed Bettaz
Online Training Course for Avicenna Course Developers

Saziye Arslankelle
Architectural Education in the Age of Internet

12:30
Lunch

14.00
Concurrent Session
Session 5A : The Role of Education
Chair: Inna Geoghegan

Rosa Fagundes
There is Hope for Closing the Gap

Eric Weber
Liberal Arts Education and the Foundations of Democracy

Frank McMahon
The Impact of the Bologna Process on the Design of H.E. Programmes in Europe

Session 5B: Approaches to Virtual and Distance Learning
Chair: Erica Shouten

One Approach of Introducing Virtual Learning Concept into Serbian Higher Education
Dragoslav Peric

Distance Learning: Integrating Four Different Approaches
Soulla Louca, Charalambos Christou

Distance Learning as a Link to Liberal Arts in H.E.
Katherine Hall

15:30
Refreshment Break

16.00
Session 6: Training, Access and Self-Potential
Chair: Carole Doyle

Aisha Topsakal
Doorkeepers-in-Training? Kafka, the Law Faculty and Access to Justice

Anna Vitaskova
The Analysis of Innovative Potential of the Czech Universities: The Real (Im)Possibility

Amy Swiffen
What would Hegel do? Desire and Recognition in the Pedagogical Relation

17.30
Sessions End

 

Thursday 11th August 2005

09.00
Session 7: The Contexts of Education
Chair: Roger Serneels

Raluca Fratiloiu
Why be Melancholic? European Intellectuals and Academia Nowadays

Theodore Papaelias, Gregory Gikas, & Pericles Tangas
Development through Tertiary Education

Azra Kianinejad
Higher Education in Iran between Public and Private Sectors

10:30
Refreshment Break

11:00
Session 8: Pedagogical Relations and Developing Countries
Chair: Pericles Tangas

Lapo Orlandi
Multiculturalism and Linguistic Education

Theodore Papaelias & Eleftheria Dogoriti
An Inquiry into the Nature of H.E. in a Developing Country: The Case of Greece

Erica Schouten
The ‘Function’ of English: From ‘Poor Man’s Classics’ to Liberal Lynchpin

12:30
Lunch

14.00
Session 9: Approaches to Learning
Chair: Thong Bui Quang

Glib Lipin (British-Kazakh Technical University Kazakhstan, Almati)
Bridging the Gap between Language Teaching and Professional Training

Mary Blatherwick (University of New Brunswick, Canada)
Connections between Creativity and Confidence: an Art Educator’s Perspective

Prodromos Yannas (Technological Educational Institution of Western Macedonia, Greece)
PR Theory and Education in the Age of Globalization

15:30
Refreshment Break

16:00
Round Table

16:45
Closing Remarks