About the 2009 Global Forum

The Observatory on Borderless Higher Education hosted its 2009 Global Forum, 'Global Connections – Local Impacts: Best Practices, Models and Policies for Cross-Border Higher Education’, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 21-24 October 2009.

Organised by The Observatory and the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus, the Global Forum was a highly engaging professional venue where global colleagues actively discussed ideas, strategies and best practices in internationalism and cross-border higher education.

Approximately 175 delegates from 30 countries attended, with participants coming from a geographically disperse range of countries, including Australia, Botswana, China, Germany, Singapore and the UK.

Global Forum Programme

The Global Forum offered delegates a diverse range of concurrent sessions, research sessions, plenary keynotes and panels, and pre- and post-forum seminars. Sessions were highly interactive to engage delegates in creative and thoughtful dialogue about key issues.

The full programme is available here.

Sponsors

The 2009 Global Forum was organised in collaboration with a series of higher education sponsors. See here for further information.

Keynote and Plenary Speakers

The 2009 Global Forum brought together global leaders from higher education, government and business to engage in strategic policy discussions about the major issues, policies and practices facing cross-border higher education. The Observatory was pleased to welcome the Keynote and Plenary speakers listed here.

2009 Global Forum Proceedings

A full list of abstracts for the 2009 Global Forum is available here.

Select presentations from the event are available here.

To see a photo gallery of events over the three days, please click here.