What We Do
The mission of the Observatory for Higher Education Transformations is to provide an empowering space for collaboration of scholars, researchers, educators, students and anyone interested and engaged in the sphere of higher education to follow and reflect on its transformation. With this mission in mind, the Observatory will maintain cutting-edge expertise and comprehensive analytics on the global changes from the leading research centers. By integrating the leading expert teams from all over the world, this will enable effective international collaboration and innovative ideas to contribute the higher education landscape.
Research focus, goals and objectives
The research activities of the platform is built around the following topics:
1. Global cooperation in higher education2. University Administration and Managements
3. University Finance
4. Student experiences
5. Digitalization
6. Higher Education systems and dynamics
As long as for the majority of current global educational trends there is no single consensus over its interpretation and future predictions, a comprehensive discussion with leading experts in the field and academic community as a whole significantly matters. Hence it is essential to enrich the discourse, by adding various opinions and visions, which would be pursued through the Observatory’s initiatives.
Founding members of the Observatory
Politecnico di Milano School of Management, Italian Republic, represented by Tommaso Agasisti
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education University of Toronto, Canada, represented by Dean Glen Jones
Centre for Research in Higher Education Policies University of Porto, Portuguese Republic, represented by Pedro Teixeira
Centre for Global Higher Education of the University of Oxford, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, represented by the Director Simon Marginson
Student Experience in the Research University Consortium, University of California, Berkeley, United States of America, represented by the Director Igor Chirikov
China Institute for Educational Finance Research of Peking University, People's Republic of China, represented by the Director Wang Rong
Center for International Higher Education Boston College, United States of America, represented by the Director Hans De Wit
Institute of Education at National Research University Higher School of Economics, represented by the Head of the Institute Isak Froumin
International Association of Universities, represented by Hilligje van't Land and Giorgio Marinoni
Center for Higher Education Policy Studies, represented by Barend van der Meulen
Department for Higher Education Research at Donau University Krems, represented by Attila Pausits
Institutional members of the Observatory
Word Bank, represented by Hary Patrinos