WCU-2



	October 31 - November 3, 2007
	Center for World-Class Universities and Institute of Higher Education Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China


	Session II
		"Rankings, governance and attractiveness: the new French context"
		Prof. Andre Siganos

		"Identifying the best: the CHE-ranking of excellent European graduate programmes in natural sciences"
		Uwe Brandenburg and Prof. Detlef Mueller Boeling

	Session III
		"Quality assurance and promotion of excellence in the Swiss university system"
		Prof. Hans Weder

		"Main principles of the strategy on building world-class universities in Russia"
		Prof. Vladimir Troyan

		"The restructuring of the national French system of research and world-class universities"
		Prof. Bertrand Bellon

	Session IV
		"A Metric for Academic Research"
		Ulf Sandstrom

		"Improving quality of universities by world-university-ranking in Slovenia and the Danube region"
		Prof. Ivan Rozman and Prof. Marko Marhl

		"The new direction of Japanese higher education policy: Conflicts between global and domestic logic"
		Associate Prof. Akiyoshi Yonezawa

		"Strategies towards the world-class universities of Thai higher education institutions"
		Assistant Prof. Kampechara Puriparinya

	Session V

		"Combining the vision, mission and actions: Tsinghua¡¯s experience in building the world-class university"
		Prof. Jing Huan Shi

		"Strategies for developing a world-class university in a complex context: the case of the Valencia University of Technology"
		Prof. Jos¨¦-Gin¨¦s Mora

		"A step toward a world-class research university: Seoul National University"
		Associate Prof. Gil Sun Song

	Session VI
		"Implications of world university rankings for national and institutional research strategy of small developed nations"
		Dr. Tony Sheil

		"The pursuit of ¡®scale and focus¡¯ at the University of Adelaide"
		Prof. Richard Russell

		"Class universities in developing countries: German-Jordanian University model"
		Prof. Salem Al-Agtash

	Session VII
		"Educational exchanges: What world-class universities should not adopt from U.S. higher education"
		Dr. Kathryn Mohrman

		"Global portfolios and strategic international partnerships of a major research university: A case study of the university of Toronto "
		Anatoly Oleksiyenko

		"Elite scientists and the global brain drain"
		Nicola Owen

	Session VIII
		"Creating World-Class Universities in developing countries"
		Dr. Jamil Salmi