British Council Higher Education Series

The Role of Higher Education in Economic Revitalization

October 10, 2013

Georgia Tech Alumni House

Atlanta, Georgia

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IntroductionThe Role of Higher Education in Economic Revitalization

Welcome to the ninth event in the British Council Higher Education Series.

This forum is part of a two-year series of small-scale “conversational conferences” occurring across The Americas. Each one is focused on a relevant shared agenda in higher education and addresses a specific theme of partnership between American and UK higher education institutions.

The purpose is to create opportunities to share best practice, to discuss common concerns and to increase partnerships between institutions.

Today’s event focuses on the role of university partnerships with government and private industry in supporting economic revitalization in regions where there is need for growth as well as the significance these partnerships have on changing the way higher education is delivered today. Ensuring the right pipeline of graduates with the correct balance of technical and soft skills needed to meet workforce demands is a crucial issue in both the US and the UK. We will examine why universities are key in propelling regions trapped in low-skill/low-wage cycles into the knowledge economy through research, workforce development, and innovation and tech transfer.

We hope you will find this to be a timely conversation, and we look forward to adding to this important debate.

Paul Smith Director, British Council USA

Upcoming Higher Education Series events will be held in:

• SãoPaulo,Brazil–29October2013:Impact and Trends of International Higher Education• MexicoCity,Mexico–19November2013:The Role of Higher Education in the

Democratization of Productivity: Developing graduates to drive economic growth• Vancouver,Canada–20November2013:The Role of Higher Education in Training the

Next Generation of Social Entrepreneurs• Medellín,Colombia–12February2014:Inclusion, Quality Education and Innovation:

Challenges of higher education in Colombia

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Agenda 9:00amWelcomeaddress

Paul Smith, Director, British Council USA and Yves Berthelot,ViceProvostforInternational Initiatives, Georgia Tech

9:15amI.Plenary:ShapedbythePast-CreatingtheFutureProfessor Christopher F. Higgins,Vice-Chancellor and Warden, Durham University

10:00am II.TheUniversityandEconomicRevitalization: Parallels between the US and UKProfessor Michael Luger, Director, ManchesterBusinessSchool

10:20amCoffeeBreak

10:30am III.LocalIndustryImpact:Co-designof programs and curriculumModerator:Professor Suzanne Cholerton, ProVice-Chancellor,LearningandTeaching,NewcastleUniversityDr. Imtiaz Haque,FoundingChairandExecutive Director, Department of Automotive Engineering, International Center for Automotive Research, Clemson UniversityDr. Michael Matthews, Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education, University of South Carolina Jeremy Butler, Director, Professional and Executive Programmes, Warwick ManufacturingGroup,UniversityofWarwick

11:30am IV.ResearchandTechTransfer:Innovation to impactModerator:Dr. Celia Caulcott, Director of Innovation and Skills, Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council Valerie McDevitt,Asst.VicePresident,TechnologyTransferOffice—Patents&Licensing,UniversityofSouthFloridaDr. Stephen E. Cross,ExecutiveVicePresident for Research, Georgia Institute of Technology Professor Richard Davies, Dean of Knowledge Exchange and Impact, Durham University

12:30pmLunch

1:00pm V.Lunchspeaker Pioneering21st Century Education: The view from the President’s deskDr. Daniel J. Kaufman, President and CEO,GwinnettChamberofCommerceandFoundingPresident,GeorgiaGwinnettCollege

1:30pm VI.EducatingtheFutureWorkforce:Training and work placement Moderator:Dr. James Miller,Director,OpenUniversity Scotland Nicola Turner, Director of Employability, Aston UniversityMr. Henry C. Giles, Jr., President, Spartanburg Community CollegeDr. Rich Phillips, Associate Dean for AcademicInitiativesandInnovation,J.MackRobinson College of Business, Georgia State University

2:30pm CoffeeBreakandLightSnacks

2:45pm VII.LostinTranslation:Qualifications,competencies and employment Moderator:Professor Hugo Tucker, Dean ofFacultyofArts,HumanitiesandSocialScience, University of ReadingDr. Robin Dorff, Dean, College of Humanities and Social Sciences and Professor of Political Science, Kennesaw State UniversityDr. Clarissa Myrick-Harris, Dean, Division of HumanitiesandSocialSciences,MorehouseCollegeJanice Mulholland,EducationManager,British Council USA

4:15pm VIII.ClosingAddress

5:00pm NetworkingReceptionco-hosted by Her Britannic Majesty’s Consul General Jeremy Pilmore-Bedford

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ParticipatingUniversitiesandOrganizations

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British Council USA Higher EducationOverview2012/13GLOBALPOLICyDIALOGUESGoingGlobal2014inMiami,FL:April29-May1,2014Going Global is the British Council’s flagship international education conference. Since its inceptionin2004,GoingGlobalhasgrownfromanannualeventintheUKtothelargestgathering of its type in the world, the leading global event for leaders of international education and a fixture of the global education calendar. Each year it attracts around 1,500registereddelegatesfrom70-80countriesacrossthetertiary(furtherandhigher)education and vocational skills sectors and a variety of other industries with perspectives on international education.

Each year, we bring Going Global to a different region of the world as we seek to explore future thinking in international tertiary education. The conference has been hosted in Edinburgh,London,HongKong,andDubaiinpreviousyears,andwillcometotheAmericasregionforthefirsttimein2014.Vibrantandfastmoving,theAmericasregionembracestheunparalleled strength of the USA on the global education stage, alongside new, rapidly rising playerslikeMexico,Brazil,ColombiaandChile.Itisthisexcitingmeltingpotofeducationtraditions, cultures, ideas and aspirations that sets the context for our conference.

KNOWLEDGEPARTNERSHIPSGlobal Innovation InitiativeThe Global Innovation Initiative is a new higher education partnership opportunity established between the UK and US governments. The initiative provides grant support for multilateralresearchcollaborationinSTEM-relatedissuesofglobalsignificancebetweenhigher education institutions in the UK, the US and institutions in Brazil, China, India and Indonesia. The grants are intended to bring mutual benefit to higher education institutions on both sides of the Atlantic through the enhancement of existing bilateral ties and the development of trilateral relationships with emerging economies. The Call for Proposals goesliveinOctober2013.

EDUCATIONINTELLIGENCEEducation Intelligence aims to provide accurate analysis of underlying market trends pertinent to the internationalization of education. The suite of reports focuses on student decision-making processes, international student mobility, individual country profiles and the internationalization policies of specific countries. http://ihe.britishcouncil.org/educationintelligence

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