University Presidents Discuss Changing Management PatternsPresidents and vice presidents from dozens of universities around the world gathered in Beijing on April 12 to discuss the changing patterns in university management.The seminar opened at Qinghua University, one of China's most prestigious universities, and it is jointly hosted by the university, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Program on Institutional Management in Higher Education (IMHE), and the Hong Kong Baptist University. Member universities of the IMHE from Britain, the United States, Australia, Japan and the Philippines as well as universities from China including Beijing University, Qinghua University and Tongji University, have sent managing staff to attend the three-day seminar. The themes of the seminar is the relationship between universities and their external environment, the management of research, quality and human resources. Professor Wang Sunyu of Qinghua University, vice chairman of the program committee, said this international seminar on university management is the first of its kind in the world. Considering management as a vital part of a university, he said, the hosts hope that the seminar will help Chinese universities change their management thinking in order to contribute to the goal of creating more modern universities. |
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