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PKU Held Roundtable on Higher
Education, Focusing on
Internationalization and Globalization
PKU NEWS 2010--04—15
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PKU Roundtable on Higher Education
Peking University, Apr. 15, 2010: "How are the internationalization and globalization
of higher education and what their significance will be?‖ These were among the
topics of the PKU Roundtable on Higher Education held on Apr. 14.
Attendees at the seminar were from National University of Singapore, Australian
National University, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Yale University, Oxford
University, University of Copenhagen in Denmark, Tokyo University, Peking
University, Tsinghua University, and Beijing Normal University, and they also
discussed issues covering how to improve undergraduate education, how to optimize
the allocation of resources in university, and how to keep the balance of academic
disciplines.
The Roundtable was held by PKU Center for International Higher Education (CIHE),
and acted as a high-end academic seminar after the 2010 presidents‘ meeting of the
International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU). Professor Shi Xiaoguang of
PKU Graduate School of Education (GSE), also CIHE‘s vice director, presided over
the conference.
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