Wednesday, November 04, 2009

Shanghai, People's Republic of China

The Third International Conference on World-Class Universities (WCU-3) was held on 2-4 November, 2009, organized by the Centre for World-Class Universities, Graduate School of Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. It attracted more than 160 delegates from 40 countries, with three keynote lectures and 25 presentations. The conference aims to brought together researchers, university leaders, policy makers, government officials and other stakeholders to discuss major developments and issues in the field of world-class universities.

The conference had four themes, the Role of World-Class Universities in National Systems; Institutional Practices of Building World-Class Universities; Theoretical and Historical Aspects of World-Class Universities; and Ranking and Classification of World-Class Universities. During the conference, academics and scholars from different higher education institutions, research institutions and organizations around the world presented papers and carried out discussions on these themes. National and institutional practices of building world-class universities, highlighted through case studies and related theoretical frameworks, were presented and reviewed. The next conference will be held in November 2011.

Center for World-Class Universities
Graduate School of Education
Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Press contact: Dr. WANG Qi qimwang@sjtu.edu.cn