Celebrating publication of 'From Actors to Reforms in European Higher Education - A Festschrift for Pavel Zgaga': A Response From and Conversation With Pavel Zgaga
Time: Nov 24, 2022 15:30-17:00 CET
This event brought together authors contributing chapters to 'From Actors to Reforms in European Higher Education - A Festschrift for Pavel Zgaga', and Professor Pavel Zgaga to whom the Festschrift is dedicated. The book has been published as part of the Higher Education Dynamics book series with Springer Nature. Professor Pavel Zgaga offered a brief response to the Festschrift followed by a conversation with the contributors and other participants.
Pavel Zgaga is Professor of Philosophy of Education at the Faculty of Education, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His main research interest is higher education, with internationalisation as one of the central themes. He has received several research grants and has led or participated in a number of national and international research projects dealing mainly with issues in higher education, educational policies and reforms in the contemporary European context, and teacher education as a specific area of higher education. He is a member of the editorial boards of several international research journals. In his field of expertise, he has also collaborated with many universities in Europe and worldwide, as well as with international organisations, e.g., the Council of Europe, the European Commission, UNESCO, the OECD, etc., and has served as a consultant and invited speaker in a number of countries. He has participated in evaluations of numerous study and/or research programmes and higher education institutions, in addition to domestic ones (in Slovenia), also in Estonia, Iceland, Norway and Portugal. In the 1990s, during the period of social and political transition in Slovenia, he was State Secretary for Higher Education (1992-1999) and Minister of Education and Sports (1999-2000). Upon his return to academia, he was Dean of the Faculty of Education and co-founder of the Centre for Educational Policy Studies. In the early years of the Bologna Process, he served as the general rapporteur (2001-2003) for the Berlin Conference, as a member of the Board of the Bologna Follow-up Group (2004-2005), and as rapporteur for the BFUG Working Group on the External Dimension of the Bologna Process (2006-2007).
Moderated by: Dr Manja Klemenčič, Harvard University