SEMINARS
2017
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ASIA-PACIFIC ECONOMIC AND FINANCE DEVELOPMENT: GLOBAL FINANCE AND ECONOMICS POST GLOBALISATION
‘Human capital, finance and the art of innovative cities’
Changchun, 25 June 2017
2015
AUSTRALIAN POPULATION ASSOCIATION GRAEME HUGO COLLOQUIUM
Canberra, 2 December 2015
ELITE EDUCATION INSTITUTE
Sydney, 24 November 2015
2013
WOODROW WILSON CENTER
‘City-university strategies and foreign branch campuses: competing in the global knowledge economy’
Washington DC, 23rd October 2013
THE 3RD ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION & STRATEGY CONFERENCE
‘How to anticipate and respond to challenges and changes in regulation’
Melbourne, 16th April 2013
2012
FLINDERS UNIVERSITY COUNCIL
‘On Completing my Term as Deputy Vice-Chancellor’
Flinders University
Adelaide, 13th December 2012
AUSTRALIAN INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION CONFERENCE
‘Damocles Sword: Standards in International Education’
Melbourne, 5th October 2012
MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS CONFERENCE
‘Five observations about the international marketing of universities’
Adelaide, 26 September 2012
TEACHING IN ENGLISH: THE ONLY PATHWAY TO INTERNATIONALISATION OF ITALIAN HIGHER EDUCATION?
‘Experiences with teaching non-native English students in Australia’
Centre for Higher Education Internationalisation, University Cattolica del Sacro Cuore,
Milan, 6 September 2012
FLINDERS COUNCIL PRESENTATION
‘International and community exchange programs’
Adelaide, 7th June 2012
INSTITUTIONAL PERFORMANCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION: MANAGING RISK TO ENSURE SUSTAINABLE GROWTH
‘Examining the Impact of Transparency in Quality and Standards on International Students’
Melbourne, 15-16th May 2012
SPEECH
Adelaide, 20th March 2012
INTERNATIONAL HIGHER EDUCATION: MANAGING RISK TO ENSURE SUSTAINABLE GROWTH
Melbourne, 14-15th February 2012
2011
COPLAND LEADERSHIP PROGRAM
‘Digital Technology and Leadership Practice’
CEDA (Committee for the Economic Development of Australia),
Adelaide, 10th November 2011
AFRICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALASIA AND THE PACIFIC CONFERENCE
Adelaide, Flinders University Victoria Square, 1st December 2011
AUSTRALIAN INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION CONFERENCE
Adelaide 11-14th October 2011
AUCEA COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT WORKSHOP
‘Welcome’
Adelaide, 1st August 2011
UNITED NATIONS NATIONAL YOUTH CONFERENCE
‘Welcome’
Adelaide11 July 2011
THE AUSTRALIAN QUALIFICATIONS FRAMEWORK: A SYMPOSIUM AND AQF LAUNCH
‘The AQF: Providing (extra) Certainty for Mobile Students’
Melbourne, 23rd June 2011
CLIMATE CHANGE: THE SOCIAL SERVICE ASPECTS
Anglicare and Flinders University Research to Practice Seminar
Adelaide, 31st May 2011
THE 9TH ANNUAL HIGHER EDUCATION SUMMIT
“Exploring the sector-wide response to a decline in international students”
Brisbane, 27-29th April 2011
DEVELOPING SUSTAINABLE SOCIETIES: CHALLENGES AND PERSPECTIVES
‘China’s Cities: The Last 25 Years’.
Flinders University and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Adelaide 22-23rd March 2011
2010
IEAA/LH MARTIN INSTITUTE EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT IN INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION
Adelaide 26-27 August 2010
2010 NEAS ELT MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE
Sydney, 13-14th May 2010
ASSOCIATION OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION ADMINISTRATORS
“Global Perspectives on Quality Assurance: Australia”.
Washington DC, 14-17 February 2010
2009
UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES SOUTH AUSTRALIA
“Community engagement: the secret life of universities.”
Adelaide, 1 December 2009
INFORMA SYMPOSIUM ON UNIVERSITY RELATIONS IN THE ASIA PACIFIC
“International Contracts and MOUs”.
Cairns, 18 November 2009.
AUSTRALIAN INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION CONFERENCE (AIEC)
Comments as a panellist in a session on ‘A National Strategy for Australian International Education’.
Sydney, 13-16 October 2009
IEAA-EAIE SYMPOSIUM ON ADVANCING AUSTRALIA-EUROPE ENGAGEMENT
Rapporteur’s report for the meeting.
Sydney, 11-12 October 2009.
ASSOCIATION OF PUBLIC AND LAND-GRANT UNIVERSITIES
COMMISSION ON INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION
“Challenges for Australian universities in international knowledge
transfer partnerships”. Click here for the powerpoint summary.
Colorado Springs, 13-15 July 2009.
AUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITIES QUALITY FORUM
Plenary address presented on “The international student experience in Australia”.
Alice Springs, 1-3 July 2009
TRANSNATIONAL EDUCATION FORUM
A seminar on good practice in TNE sponsored by the IRU Australia group of universities.
La Trobe University, Melbourne 18 June 2009
HIGHER EDUCATION CONGRESS
Presentation in a session titled Creating Australia’s first global education city: Boston of the Southern Hemisphere. “Australia’s knowledge cities: work in progress”
Sydney, 24-25 March 2009
THE OPTUS FOUNDATION
“The impact of China’s weakening economy on Australia’s international education sector”
Adelaide, 10 March 2009
2008
AUSTRALIAN INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION CONFERENCE
I gave a presentation in a session titled “Leadership and Management in International Education: Fostering and Sustaining the Next Generation”.
Brisbane, 8-10 October 2008
ACADEMY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES IN AUSTRALIA
The ASSA runs regular Policy Roundtables. The purpose of this one was to develop an Academy response to the Higher Education Review. My presentation was in a session titled “Regional and global perspectives for university sector policy”.
Policy Roundtable on Higher Education Futures, Canberra, 1 August 2008
AUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITIES QUALITY AGENCY (AUQA)
Presentation of a simulated case study of a university’s transnational education activities. Workshop participants worked in groups to formulate approaches to undertaking a quality audit of the activities, focusing on the questions to be asked and the issues that needed to be addressed.
Transnational Education Auditor Training Workshop, Melbourne, 2 April 2008
AUSTRALIAN EDUCATION INTERNATIONAL FUTURE DIRECTIONS WORKSHOP
“Flinders University international student strategy 1997-2007”. Current challenges and new approaches, consistent with the third wave activities being developed by several Australian universities, were identified.
Canberra, 27-28 February 2008
2007
CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY 2007 SUMMIT
A presentation on “Strategies for Sustainable Universities” was delivered at the Summit. A second short presentation was titled “Now that climate change is recognised as a major risk to business, how do you elevate from belief to action?”
State Library of NSW, Sydney, 31 October-1 November 2007
EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION
A presentation titled “Research student mobility in a competitive global knowledge economy” was delivered in a session on Research Student Mobility and International Research Links.
Trondheim, 12-15 September 2007
2006
AUSTRALIAN VICE-CHANCELLORS COMMITTEE INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION CONFERENCE
“The value of peak bodies to the sector.”
Sydney, 16-17 November 2006
AUSTRALIAN INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION CONFERENCE
Two papers are here. The first is “Immigration futures” and the second is titled “Transnational quality strategy future directions.”
Perth, 10-13 October 2006
INFORMA UNIVERSITY REGULATIONS AND GOVERNANCE FORUM
“Regulation of international students: preparing for an added burden.”
Melbourne, 21 September 2006
NAFSA: ASSOCIATION OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATORS; EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION
“The International Network of Universities: a retrospective view” was first delivered at a session on “The University Consortium as a Multinational Strategy for Promoting Internationalization” at the NAFSA 57th Annual Conference in Seattle, 29 May-3 June 2005. A revised version of the paper was presented in a session on “International University Consortia: A Strategic Tool for Internationalisation” at the 18th Annual Conference of the European Association for International Education, Basel, 13-16 September 2006.
THE BOLOGNA PROCESS NATIONAL SEMINAR
Organised by the Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST). As facilitator for a panel presentation on the International Dimension, I provided a summary of the main points.
Canberra, 7 September 2006
TNE GOOD PRACTICE WORKSHOP
Melbourne, 2 August 2006
2005
AUSTRALIAN VICE-CHANCELLORS COMMITTEE INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION CONFERENCE
Adelaide, 22-23 November 2005
AUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITIES QUALITY AGENCY TRANSNATIONAL EDUCATION AUDITOR TRAINING PROGRAM
“A few cultural tips when auditing offshore”
Melbourne, 28 October 2005
2004
INTERNATIONAL NETWORK OF UNIVERSITIES SEMINAR
Budapest, September 2004
AUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITIES QUALITY FORUM
Workshop “Internationalisation: quality and transnational education”
Adelaide, 8 July 2004
INSTITUTE OF AUSTRALIAN GEOGRAPHERS CONFERENCE
“Cities, universities and global competitiveness”
Adelaide, 13-16 April 2004
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FLINDERS UNIVERSITY LEADERSHIP PROGRAM
Adelaide, 19 February, 16 June 2008
Two seminars on “Leadership in International and Community Engagement”. The first seminar centred on the activities and performance of the University in the international and community engagement programs. The second seminar explored different aspects of leadership in a university environment. Workshops explored how participants would respond to particular scenarios within the international and community engagement portfolios. The seminar concluded with an argument that all leadership in the University should be set within a global context, such is the impact of globalisation on the core business of the University: its teaching, research and community engagement.
ENVIRONMENTAL STRATEGIES
New urban forms are emerging in the Asian Pacific region, and they range from extended metropolitan regions, to world cities, mega-cities and mega-urban corridors. They create new environmental challenges. The widespread existence of slums and squatter settlements pose particular environmental problems. In the seminar we look at slum improvement programs in the Bangladesh cities of Dhaka and Dinajpure. The final theme in the seminar is the environmental strategies implemented in Singapore. A two hour seminar.
LEADERSHIP, MANAGEMENT AND POLICY
What is leadership in the urban environmental management? The seminar explores a framework, which I have dubbed SPERLL, which focuses on six key leadership qualities: strategic thinking; relationship management; ethics; risk assessment; emotional intelligence; and learning cultures. I examine the policy framework for the urban environment developed by Mike Douglass and Ooi Giok Ling, and follow this with a closer look of the state - civil society link, and public-private partnerships in addressing environmental problems. A two hour seminar.
Both the above are seminars in a Masters level topic (ie subject) Urban Environmental Management which is part of the Masters of Environmental Management.
ASIA AND THE GLOBAL KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY
The lecture explores the nature of education and knowledge cities in the Asian Pacific region, and strategies to create a niche in the global knowledge economy. The centrepiece is an examination of Singapore’s experience in creating a hub for world class universities and its aspirations to become a ‘global schoolhouse’.
The lecture is in an undergraduate topic in Asian Regional Development. Click here for an outline.
ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES IN MEGA-URBAN REGIONS: LEARNING FROM PACIFIC ASIA
The four lessons I have learned from Pacific Asia:
The significance of the urban revolution in the 21st century
The impact the urban revolution will have on our understanding of the environment
How we might think about the sustainability of cities
The essential ingredients in successful environmental strategies
Click here for the Summary. These two undergraduate lectures are in Sustainability and Development.
Ho Chi Minh City, 1984
SEMINARS
Recent seminars for professional and university groups, and student seminars.
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INTERVIEW
Dean Forbes interviewed by David Hill. Flinders University, 2 July 2010. The interview was conducted as part of The Development of a National Strategic Plan for Indonesian in Australian Universities, Australian Learning and Teaching Council. Audio (MP3)
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“My time is running out
and still
I have not sung
the true song
the great song”
Leonard Cohen My Time (Book of Longing, McClelland & Stewart, Montreal, 2006, p 178)
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