Professor Simon Marginson
Simon Marginson is Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford, founding Director of the ESRC/RE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), Joint Editor-in-Chief of Higher Education, and a Professorial Associate with the University of Melbourne. Simon’s research is focused primarily on global and international higher education, the global science system, higher education in East Asia, the contributions of higher education, and higher education and social inequality. Simon led CGHE’s project 8 which investigated the public good role of higher education in ten countries. The project found that while a broad notion of public good has been largely emptied out of policy in the English-speaking countries, where economic definitions of individualised pecuniary value are dominant, recognition of the broader individual and collective outcomes of higher education continues in different ways in other jurisdictions including France, Finland, South Korea and China. The study in England discovered however that despite the narrow economic framing used by Westminster policy makers, both higher education practitioners and policy professionals believe that higher education makes a large and multiple contribution to both national and global public goods.
With Lili Yang, Simon co-authored a 2022 paper ‘Individual and collective outcomes of higher education: a comparison of Anglo-American and Chinese approaches’ which found that if the Anglophone economic notion of a zero-sum trade-off between public goods and private goods is removed, then the full range of higher education’s contributions emerge and the two systemic approaches to the public good role are compatible despite differences in the respective political cultures.
Simon’s most recent book, edited with Brendan Cantwell, Daria Platonova and Anna Smolentseva, is Assessing the contributions of higher education (Edward Elgar, 2023).
CGHE publications
- Moving beyond centre-periphery science: Towards an ecology of knowledge
- Higher Education and Public and Common Good
- The New Geo-politics of Higher Education 2: Between Nationalism and Globalism
- The Three Dilemmas of Higher Education: The 2024 Burton R. Clark Lecture
- A Bird’s Eye View of Worldwide University Science
- Changing Higher Education for a Changing World
- Changing Higher Education in India
- Changing Higher Education in East Asia
- Higher Education and Public Good: Perceptions of Practitioners and Policy Professionals in England
- Hegemonic Ideas Are Not Always Right: On the Definition of ‘Internationalisation’ of Higher Education
- Heterogeneous systems and common objects: The relation between global and national science
- Moving beyond centre-periphery science: Towards an ecology of knowledge
- Globalisation: The good, the bad and the ugly
- Public/private in higher education: a synthesis of economic and political approaches
- The role of higher education in generating ‘public’ and ‘common’ goods: A comparison of Sinic and Anglo-American political cultures
- 高等教育の新しい地政学
- The UK in the global student market: second place for how much longer?
- Preserving the DNA of UK universities: the key role of non-UK postgraduate research students
- The new geo-politics of higher education
- Higher education and Brexit: current European perspectives
- The role of the state in university science: Russia and China compared
- Higher education and public good in East and West
- World higher education under conditions of national/global disequilibria
CGHE research projects
- Local and global public good contributions of higher education: a comparative study in six national systems
- Local and global public good of higher education: 10 nation study
- Brexit, trade, migration and higher education
- Internationalisation of HE as a public good: a comparative study in four national systems
Past Events
- Simon Marginson in Conversation
- CGHE Conference on ‘The public good role of higher education’
- CGHE Annual Conference 2024 – The Future of Higher Education
- The Governance of European Higher Education: Convergence or Divergence?
- Higher education and public good: The case of the UK
- CGHE Annual Conference 2023 – From Higher to Tertiary: Democratising Post-School Education
- Intrinsic higher education and the threat of the employability mantra
- Geography is our friend: Space and scale in higher education
- Is the idea wrong or is the flaw in reality? On the definition of ‘internationalisation’ of higher education
- Signals in the storm: Higher education, digital communication and geo-politics – CGHE’s 300th seminar/webinar
- CGHE Annual Conference 2022 – Higher education knowledge in a plural world
- Changing Higher Education in East Asia: A CGHE Book Symposium
- Thinking through tianxia: A new/old heuristic for worldwide higher education
- Higher education as student self-formation
- Is ‘global’ higher education a friend or a foe?
- What are the outcomes of higher education? A cross-cultural dialogue between the Anglo-American and Chinese worlds
- The rise and rise of research in China: what does it mean for China and the world?
- CGHE Annual Conference 2021: Remaking higher education for a more equal world
- Eurasian relations in higher education in the context of the fast moving world scene
- Hegemony and inequality in global science: Problems of the centre-periphery model
- Universities and research in Australia in the Covid-19 crisis: Is down under going under?
- Higher education and the hopes of the world: The next three years of CGHE research
- Knowledge network or hegemonic hierarchy? Dynamism and power in global science
- Changing Higher Education for a Changing World: A Book Symposium in West Pacific
- BOOK LAUNCH: Transforming University Education – A manifesto
- CGHE BOOK LAUNCH: Changing Higher Education for a Changing World
- CGHE series on international and global higher education – seminar 2: The global and the post-colonial
- Book launch special event: The Governance of British Higher Education – The impact of governmental, financial and market pressures (35% book discount for attendees)
- Does Augar provide the way forward for HE and FE in England? A CGHE panel
- Is Brexit Day Independence Day in UK higher education?
- CGHE 2019 annual conference: Challenging higher education
- Expansion of higher education in China for two decades: critical reflections from comparative perspectives
- What is the value of international HE research?
- High participation systems of higher education
- What do political developments in China mean for university autonomy and academic freedom? A panel discussion
- Trends in global higher education
- Higher education in federal systems: a comparative study
- The ecological university
- What is a university education and where is it going? Critical reflections by David Willetts and two respondents
- Institutional autonomy, academic freedom and the public character of the university
- Higher education as self-formation
- How good are Australian universities?
- Horizontal diversity in higher education systems: does the growth of participation enhance or diminish it?
- Higher education and the common good
- Clark Kerr, the Master Plan and public higher education in California today
- The public good role of higher education in East and West: a comparative study
Select recent publications
- Has the public good of higher education been emptied out? The case of England
Simon Marginson and Lili Yang, Higher Education, September 2023 - Limitations of the leading definition of ‘internationalisation’ of higher education: Is the idea wrong or is the fault in reality?
Simon Marginson, Globalisation, Societies and Education, October 2023 - Student self-formation: An emerging paradigm in higher education
Simon Marginson, Studies in Higher Education, September 2023 - Mass higher education and the slow road to freedom. Review essay on Peter Scott’s Retreat or Resolution? Tackling the Crisis of Mass Higher Education
Simon Marginson, Higher Education, May 2023 - Higher education and research: Multiple negative effects and new no opportunities after Brexit
Simon Marginson, Contemporary Social Science, April 2023 - Institutional dual identity in research capacity building in IBCs: the case of NYU Shanghai
Tianran Zhan and Simon Marginson, Higher Education, February 2023 - Hegemony and Inequality in Global Science: Problems of the Center-Periphery Model
Simon Marginson and Xin Xu, Comparative Education Review, volume 67, number 1, February 2023 - The Glonacal Paper after 20 years: Spatial Analysis in the Study of International Higher Education
RIHE International Seminar Reports, No.26, 2022 - 50 years of Higher Education: a critical refection and thoughts on an evolving agenda
Brendan Cantwell, Jenni Case, Simon Marginson, Higher Education, November 2022 - Space and scale in higher education: the glonacal agency heuristic revisited
Higher Education, October 2022 - Research on international and global higher education: Six different perspectives
Oxford Review of Education, July 2022 - What is global higher education?
Oxford Review of Education, May 2022 - Changing Higher Education in East Asia
Simon Marginson (Anthology Editor), Xin Xu (Anthology Editor), Bloomsbury, February 2022 - Changing Higher Education in India
Saumen Chattopadhyay (Anthology Editor), Simon Marginson (Anthology Editor), N. V. Varghese (Anthology Editor), Bloomsbury, November 2021 - Global science and national comparisons: beyond bibliometrics and scientometrics
4 October 2021 - National modernisation and global science in China
International Journal of Educational Development, Volume 84, July 2021 - What drives global science? The four competing narratives
June 2021 - ‘All things are in flux’: China in global science
Higher Education, May 2021 - Chapter 3 The Global Science System and National Science Systems. In: World-Class Universities 2021
- Individual and collective outcomes of higher education: a comparison of Anglo-American and Chinese approaches
Globalisation, Societies and Education, May 2021 - Massification, diversification and internationalisation of higher education in China: Critical reflections of developments in the last two decades
International Journal of Educational Development, July 2021 - One country, two political cultures: What way forward for Hong Kong’s universities?
International Journal of Educational Development, July 2021 - Higher Education and Public Good in East and West
The Promise of Higher Education, 2021 - Briefing for UCL on global higher education
28 October 2020 - Postcards from the Covid-19 pandemic
Thesis Eleven, October 2020 - World Research: Networking, Growth, and Diversification’ (pp. 16-17)
The Boston College Center for International Higher Education - Higher education and science in the age of Trump, Brexit and Le Pen
Book chapter, April 2019 - Global Cooperation and National Competition in the World-Class University Sector
Book chapter (upcoming publication) - High Participation Systems of Higher Education
Oxford University Press, October 2018 - Higher Education in Federal Countries: A Comparative Study
Sage, September 2018 - Internationalisation in Vietnamese Higher Education
Springer, July 2018 - Higher Education as Self-Formation
Inaugural Professorial Lecture at the UCL Institute of Education, IOE Press, 2018 - S. Marginson (2018). Public/private in higher education: a synthesis of economic and political approaches, Studies in Higher Education, 43 (2), pp. 322-337, DOI: 10.1080/03075079.2016.1168797
- And the sky is grey: The ambivalent outcomes of the California Master Plan for Higher Education
Higher Education Quarterly, 2018 - Obschestvennye blaga, proizvodimye v vysshikh uchebnykh zavedeniyakh Rossii [The public good created by higher educational institutions in Russia]. Вопросы образования [Educational Studies Moscow], 3, pp. 8-36. DOI: 10.17323/1814-9545-2017-3-9-36
- The Master Plan and the California higher education system: success, failure and implications for China
International Journal of Chinese Education, August 2017 - Limitations of human capital theory
Studies in Higher Education, August 2017 - The World-Class Multiversity: Global Commonalities and National Characteristics
Frontiers of Education in China, June 2017 - The California Higher Education Master Plan and higher education. The success or failure of the system and its significance to China. Tsinghua Journal of Education, 38 (2) 2017. Translated by Wen Wen.
- Global trends in higher education financing: The United Kingdom
International Journal of Educational Development, May 2017 - Higher education, economic inequality and social mobility: Implications for emerging East Asia
International Journal of Educational Development, March 2017 - Higher Education and the Common Good
Melbourne University Publishing, December 2016 - Towards world-class systems: world-class universities in high participation systems of higher education
In Matching Visibility and Performance: A Standing Challenge for World-Class Universities, Sense Publishers, October 2016 - The Dream is Over: The Crisis of Clark Kerr’s California Idea of Higher Education
University of California Press, 2016 - The worldwide trend to high participation higher education: dynamics of social stratification in inclusive systems
Higher Education, October 2016 - Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory in the context of globalization
Asia Pacific Journal of Education, September 2016 - Public/private in higher education: a synthesis of economic and political approaches
CGHE working paper, June 2016 - Private/public in higher education: a synthesis of economic and political approaches
Studies in Higher Education, April 2016 - Foreword: The partial shift from public to private goods in UK higher education
London Review of Education, April 2016 - High participation systems of higher education
The Journal of Higher Education, March/April 2016 - Higher education and inequality in Anglo-American societies
Student Equity in Australian Higher Education, March 2016
Presentations
- As Euro-American Domination Weakens: East Asian Higher Education In The Multipolar World
Tohoku University, Japan, 15 December 2023. READ TRANSCRIPT - Going Global, British Council conference
Edinburgh, 20 November 2023. READ TRANSCRIPT - Higher education and the public good in Chile
keynote paper to conference of the Ministry of Higher Education, Government of Chile, Santiago, 16 November 2023. READ TRANSCRIPT - University rankings to meeting of the DVCs of Russell Group universities in UK
Queen Mary University London, 9 November 2023. - Keynote to Conference on ‘What are universities for?’
- Geography is our friend: Space and scale in higher education
CGHE webinar, Geography is our friend: Space and scale in higher education, 10 November 2022. READ TRANSCRIPT - How could ICL work better? Politics of public/private.
Paper for CGHE seminar on ‘The Dearing Report 25 years on: Student loan reform in U.K. – Did it work?’ UCL Institute of Education, 4 November 2022. READ TRANSCRIPT - Is the idea wrong or is the flaw in reality? On the definition of ‘internationalisation’ of higher education
CGHE webinar, Is the idea wrong or is the flaw in reality? On the definition of ‘internationalisation’ of higher education, 3 November 2022. READ TRANSCRIPT - Higher education, the nation-state and global sustainability
paper to Higher Education Forum, Tsinghua University, China, 28 October 2023. READ TRANSCRIPT
*Perspectives on governance in Chinese universities
CCEF Forum, University of Cambridge, 15 July 2023. READ TRANSCRIPT
- Higher education and the public good: The case of the UK
CGHE webinar, 29 June 2023. READ TRANSCRIPT - Global science: Is it a tool of national contestation, neo-colonial hegemony writ large, the hope of the world, or all of the above?
University of Bath ICHEM conference 19-20 June. READ TRANSCRIPT - The inevitability of difference in global higher education
Boston College Center for International Higher Education 2023. READ TRANSCRIPT
University of Regina, Canada, 4 May 2023. READ TRANSCRIPT - ‘Higher education and knowledge as a public good’
- Intrinsic higher education and the threat of the employability mantra
CGHE webinar, 20 April 2023. READ TRANSCRIPT - Geo-politics and higher education: Past and present
Presentation to CGHE East Asia meeting, University of Hiroshima, 21 March 2023. - A centre of global higher education research
presentation to delegation from University of Alabama, 28 March 2023. - The intrinsic and extrinsic purposes of higher education
paper to University of Melbourne Centre, March 2023. Melbourne CSHE REVISED purposes 24 March 2023 - The purposes of higher education
CGHE East Asia meeting, University of Hiroshima, 21 March 2023. - Thinking through Tianxia: A new/old heuristic for worldwide higher education
3 March 2023. - Assessing the contributions of higher education
CGHE webinar, 1 March 2023. READ TRANSCRIPT - The role of student mobility in a world in which globalism may be in retreat
Universities UK International, International Higher Education Forum, 28 February 2023. - Global, Nordic and national space and time making in higher education
presentation to University of Turku, Finland, 9 February 2023. READ TRANSCRIPT - Brexit and UK higher education after 6.6 years: You know the answer, don’t you?
CGHE Webinar, 2 February 2023 - Higher education as student self-formation
Tsinghua University, 29 November 2022.
*The arts and the humanities: Multiple purposes and one rationale
paper for Lingnan University, 18 November 2022.
*Differences between ‘globalisation’ and ‘internationalisation’: implications for science and WCU building
paper for WCU-9 conference, 18 November 2022. READ TRANSCRIPT
- Universite Paris Cite Design Workshop
15-16 November 2022. - International higher education research and development: A geography-led perspective on cross-border activity
Paper to UNESCO–ICHEI, 15 November 2022.
Lecture at School of Education, Communication and Society, King’s College London, 4 July 2022, READ TRANSCRIPT - ‘The globalization of higher education: Is it neo-imperialism run amok, or the hope of the world?’
Presentation to Harvard University webinar series on ‘Universities: Past, present and future’, 15 June 2022. READ TRANSCRIPT - Global Trends in Higher Education
Presentation to University of Glasgow academic staff Masterclass 26 May 2022 - Becoming and belonging in higher education. What does the future hold, and how can we make it our future?
Imperial College London, 18 May 2022. READ TRANSCRIPT - Multi-scalar higher education: The ‘glonacal’ paper after 20 years
Symposium for the 50th anniversary of the Research Institute for Higher Education, Hiroshima, Japan, 14 May 2022. READ TRANSCRIPT - The globally distributed Euro-American university: Tensions and challenges
Academia Europaea HERCulES Symposium, 4-6 May 2022. READ TRANSCRIPT - OSR seminar on ‘the public good’
UK Office for Statistics Regulation webinar, 21 March 2022 - Higher education as student self-formation
CGHE webinar, ‘Higher education as student self-formation’, 10 February 2022. READ TRANSCRIPT - The global scale in higher education and knowledge – Is ‘global’ higher education a friend or a foe? None of the above? All of the above?
CGHE webinar, ‘Is ‘global’ higher education a friend or a foe?’, 3 February 2022 - Theory in research on higher education. Imagining global scale and global agency
CGHE Oxford meeting, 22 November 2021. READ TRANSCRIPT - Global science in a world of nation states: Do those who pay the piper call the tune?
IREG-2021, Jeddah, 15 November 2021 - International higher education and global science: EU-CHINA
International Higher Education and Global Science EU-China relations in a Changing World Order, 4 November 2021 - The driving forces of scientific research in higher education. The four competing narratives – which is right?
Beijing National University, 22 September 2021. READ TRANSCRIPT - What drives global science? The four competing narratives
CHER Asia, University of Hong Kong, 15 September 2021 WATCH HERE - International student mobility: Hypothesizing for the future
ISEM End of Summer Workshop, 10 September 2021 - The End of Anglo-European domination? Higher education in Vietnam in a multipolar world
Vietnam Education Symposium, 9 September 2021 - The public good approach to higher education is alive and well
STARS keynote, 5 July 2021 - What drives global science? The four competing narratives
University of Padua, Italy, 9 June 2021 [View presentation transcript] - Higher education during and after the Covid-19 pandemic: Worldwide developments.
Presented to webinar format conference of Universidad de Chile, Consortium of Chilean State Universities, and Chilean Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 16 December 2020. - The rise of China in global science. WATCH HERE.
Public Lecture, Department of Education, University of Oxford, 2 November 2020 - Higher education and the Covid-19 pandemic – worldwide developments
MEXT (Japan’s Ministry of Education) Top Global Universities Symposium, Kyoto, 30 November 2020 - Global, national and local higher education in 2021
James Cook University North Queensland, Australia, 26 November 2020. WATCH HERE. - Everliving fire: China in global science. An Oxford Department of Education lecture
2 November 2020 - Paper to conference on higher education, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russian Federation
30 October 2020 - Changing Higher Education for a Changing World: A Book Symposium in West Pacific (SLIDES & TRANSCRIPT)
Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education and the Centre for Global Higher Education, 14 October 2020 - The Pandemic and Higher Education
Australian Financial Review conference on higher education, 30 September 2020 - The World is Changing: Higher Education and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Lingnan University, 29 September 2020 - Challenges and possibilities for the University during and beyond the Covid-19 pandemic
Global Virtual Conference on Reimagining & Transforming the University: Confluence of Ideas During & Beyond COVID-19, 6 August, 2020 - Beyond World-Class: Building student capability for an ever-changing future
Kazakhstan workshop on quality of teaching in higher education, 11 March 2020 - Public good(s) in higher education: A comparison of Anglo-American and Sinic approaches
Higher School of Economics, Moscow, 5 March 2020 - How should universities respond to the new Cold War?
IAFOR Conference for Higher Education Research (CHER) and Asian Conference on the Liberal Arts (ACLA), Lingnan University, Hong Kong, 8 November 2019 - Equal but different: Implications of the rise of China in universities and science
IAFOR Conference for Higher Education Research (CHER) & Asian Conference on the Liberal Arts (ACLA), Lingnan University Hong Kong, 8 November 2019 - The Contributions of Higher Education: What are they, how are they valued, and how can their value be enhanced in Russia?
NRU Higher School of Economics, X Russian Higher Education Conference (RHEC), Moscow, 24 October 2019 - Global Higher Education: Challenges and opportunities
HUCBMS, TU Dublin, 3 September 2019 - Is there a distinctive ‘Chinese University’?
CCEF University of Cambridge, July 2019 - Self-formation, self-cultivation and social formation in higher education
Tsinghua University Institute of Education, China, 27 June 2019 - Is there a Chinese ‘Idea of a University’?
Tsinghua University Institute of Education, China, 26 June 2019 - Higher education and globalisation 2019
Beijing Normal University, China, 25 June 2019 - The contribution of higher education to public and common good(s), East and West
Tsinghua University Institute of Education, China, 21 June 2019 - Higher education and science in a time of global rivalry and global cooperation
Tsinghua University Institute of Education, China, 20 June 2019 - Higher education as student self-formation. A general theory of higher education
School of Education Minzu University, China, 19 June 2019 - Higher education and common good(s)
Peking University Graduate School of Education, China, 12 June 2019 - Higher education as student self-formation
Peking University Graduate School of Education, China, 11 June 2019 - National-global synergy in the development of higher education and science in China since 1978 (presentation)
Comparative and International Education Society conference, San Francisco, 17 April 2019 - UK and Australia (presentation)
Comparative and International Education Society conference, San Francisco, 17 April 2019 - Brexit, angst and uncertainty: Revealed emotional patterns in 127 research interviews in 12 UK universities, October 2017 to July 2018 (presentation)
UUK International Higher Education Forum, Imperial, 27 March 2019 - National-global synergy in the development of higher education and science in China since 1978 (presentation)
Joint Lingnan University/University of Oxford Symposium, Expansion of Higher Education in China for Two Decades: Critical reflections from comparative perspectives, 25 March 2019 - The larger setting: international trends and local-national effects (presentation)
Higher Education, Further Education and Work Based Learning Spring Conference, Cardiff, 7 March 2019 - High participation systems of higher education: The growing obstacles to strategies of social equalisation (presentation)
International Symposium of the Frontiers of the Study of Social Inequality Program, Tohoku University, Japan, 2 March 2019 - The geo politics of higher education: some trends (presentation)
Tohoku University, Japan, 1 March 2019 - Drivers and dimensions of unlimited worldwide growth in higher education (paper) Drivers and dimensions of unlimited worldwide growth in higher education (presentation)
High Participation Systems of Higher Education launch, Oxford, 29 November 2018 - Brexit and higher education: UK universities on the brink
Conference of scholarship holders from Germany, Imperial College London, 9 November - The Kantian University: Worldwide triumph and growing insecurity (paper) The Kantian University: Worldwide triumph and growing insecurity (presentation)
NUI Dublin, 7 November 2018 - World higher education under conditions of national/global disequilibria (paper) World higher education under conditions of national/global disequilibria (presentation)
CHER Keynote, Moscow, 30 August 2018 - University of Nottingham UEB Global Engagement Workshop
University of Nottingham, 23 April 2018 - The New Silk Road: Implications for higher education and research cooperation between China and Europe (Paper) The New Silk Road: Implications for higher education and research cooperation between China and Europe (Presentation)
Utrecht University, 18-20 March 2018 - Brexit and uncertainty: UK university approaches
UUK International Higher Education Forum 2018: thriving in a shifting global environment, Nottingham, 14 March 2018 (conference website) - Higher education as a common good
IIEP Strategic Debate, UNESCO, Paris, 12 March 2018 (read more about the presentation) - Student agency and social stratification in European higher education (Paper) Student agency and social stratification in European higher education
Eurostudent VI Conference, Berlin, 6 March 2018 - Building a global research centre on higher education in turbulent times
Bristol Conversations in Education, 21 February 2018 - Education as a public good
Speech to UCU ‘Cradle to Grave’ conference, London, 9 February 2018 - Liberal Arts Education in the Age of STEM (Paper) Liberal Arts Education in the Age of STEM (Presentation)
Lingnan University, Hong Kong SAR, 20-21 November 2017 - How good are Japan’s research universities in global terms, and how much does it matter?
Osaka University, 16 November 2017 - A fast changing setting East and West: Implications for higher education and research
Hiroshima University, 13 November 2017 - Higher Education and Global Common Good: National competition and global cooperation in the World-Class University sector (Speech / Presentation / Full paper )
WCU-7, Shanghai 6-9 November 2017 - How good are Australian universities? (Full paper) How good are Australian universities? (Speech) How good are Australian universities? (Presentation)
R. Douglas Wright Lecture, University of Melbourne, 10 October 2017 - Notes on the Global Higher Education Landscape
Association of Commonwealth Universities, 27 September 2017 - Inevitably global, inevitably national, increasingly conflicted, and hope of the world: Higher education and science in the age of Trump, Brexit and Le Pen (Paper) Inevitably global, inevitably national, increasingly conflicted, and hope of the world: Higher education and science in the age of Trump, Brexit and Le Pen (Presentation)
EAIR keynote, Porto, 3-6 September 2017 - Horizontal diversity in higher education systems: does the growth of participation enhance or diminish it? (Paper, presentation and audio)
CGHE seminar, 6 July 2017 - Synergy or tension in the research university? National public goods and global public goods (Presentation)
University of Chile, 17 May 2017 - The public role of higher education: A critical review and a new idea (Paper) The public role of higher education: A critical review and a new idea (Presentation)
University of Chile, 16 May 2017 - Higher education anywhere and everywhere: The world-wide trend to high participation societies and what it means (Paper) Higher education anywhere and everywhere (Presentation)
Bath Spa University, 2 May 2017 - Higher education and the common good (Paper, presentation and audio)
CGHE seminar, 2 February 2017 - Higher education and public goods (Paper) Higher education and public goods (Presentation)
Central European University, Budapest, 29 January 2017 - Global trends in higher education: implications for India
World Bank Roundtable, Delhi, 13 January 2017 - The growing role of higher education: the world-wide trend to high participation systems (Paper) The growing role of higher education: the world-wide trend to high participation systems (Presentation)
Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, 11 January 2017 - Higher education and public goods (Paper) Higher education and public goods (Presentation)
National University of Educational Planning and Administration (NUEPA), Delhi, 9 January 2017 - The world-class multiversity: global commonalities and national characteristics (Paper) and The world-class multiversity: global commonalities and national characteristics (Presentation)
Peking University (PKU-Stanford Forum on World-Class Universities), 4-5 November 2016 - Clark Kerr, the Master Plan and the evolution of the California higher education system: implications for the United States and for China (Paper) and Clark Kerr, the Master Plan and the evolution of the California higher education system: implications for the United States and for China (Presentation)
Tsinghua University, Beijing, 3 November 2016 - Diversity within high participation systems of higher education (Paper) and Diversity within high participation systems of higher education (Presentation)
University of Oxford, 31 October 2016 - The public good created by higher education institutions in Russia (Paper) and The public good created by higher education institutions in Russia (Presentation)
National Research University Higher School of Economics VII international conference ‘University between global challenges and local commitments’, Moscow, 20-22 October 2016 - Internationalisation, post-referendum, Asia
King’s College London, International Committee, 3 October 2016 - Higher education and regional engagement: Taiwan and Southeast (Speech) and Higher education and regional engagement: Taiwan and Southeast (Presentation)
Association of Southeast Asian Institutions of Higher Learning (ASAIHL) conference 2016, National Taiwan University, 18-19 May 2016 - What kind of international academic relations are created by rankings?
2016 IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence conference, Lisbon, 4-6 May 2016 - The international context of higher education change: drivers and challenges
European Convention of Engineering Deans at UCL, 15 April 2016