Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies
School of Social Science
Jawaharlal Nehru University
a distinguished talk by
Professor Simon Marginson
Professor of International Higher Education at the UCL Institute of Education at University College London, UK and Director of the ESRC/HEFCE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE)
On
The Growing Role of Higher Education: Implications of the Major Global Growth in Participation in Higher Education
To be followed by
Reflections on the Indian context
Prof. Gopal Guru, Centre for Political Studies, SSS, JNU.
Prof. Arun Kumar, Retired Professor, CESP, SSS, JNU.
To be chaired by
Professor M. Jagadesh Kumar
Vice-Chancellor, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Date: 11 January, 2017
About the Speaker: Simon Marginson is Professor of International Higher Education at the Institute of Education at the University of London, UK. He was Professor of Higher Education in the Centre for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne, Australia from July 2006 to October 2013. He is Joint Editor-in-Chief of Higher Education (with Jussi Valimaa), the principal world journal in higher education studies, and a member of 15 other journal boards including Higher Education Policy and Higher Education Quarterly. He serves on the Editorial Board of the Times Higher Education, and the International Advisory Committee of the Academic Ranking of World Universities at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
Marginson is one of the world's most highly cited scholars in higher education studies and international and comparative education. Since 1992 he has written or edited 23 scholarly books, and over 320 scholarly articles and book chapters. His Google Scholar h-index was 40 in January 2014. His best-known books are The Enterprise University (with Mark Considine) and Markets in Education; and among recent publications, International Student Security (with Chris Nyland, Erlenawati Sawir and Helen Forbes-Mewett). Most cited articles include 'Dynamics of national and global competition in higher education' (2006), 'Beyond national states, markets, and systems of higher education: A glonacal agency heuristic' (with Gary Rhoades, 2002), 'The public/private divide in higher education: A global revision' (2006), 'To rank or to be ranked: The impact of global rankings in higher education' (with Marijk van der Wende (2007) and 'Higher education in East Asia and Singapore: Rise of the Confucian model' (2011). He has conducted three consultancy projects for the OECD and prepared reports for the governments of Australia, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Japan, Ireland and the Netherlands, as well as providing advice in Vietnam. He has also been the principal supervisor of 20 doctoral graduates.
