IRED Seminar
IMPACT OF GLOBALIZATION ON HIGHER EDUCATION 

• Theme: "Impact of globalization on higher education"

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• Date and time: Friday, July 19, 2013, from 1:30pm-5pm

• Venue: IRED office, 4 Ba Huyen Thanh Quan Street, District 3, Ho Chi Minh City

• Speaker: Dr. Antonia Kupfer, University of Southampton (U.K.)

• Seminar schedule: 1:30pm-2:00pm: Welcome and Networking; 2:00pm-4:00pm: Professor Elaine Munthe’s presentation; 4:00pm-5:00pm: Q&A

• Target participants: Vietnamese university professors or lecturers at public and private institutions, researchers at public, private and non-profit organizations, master and doctoral students and professionals

• Organizer: The Institute for Research on Educational Development (IRED)

• Language: English-Vietnamese translation

• Participation fee: Free of charge

About the seminar

Higher education always plays an important role in human capital development, particularly in a globalized world.  Bringing her research experience in this field, Dr. Antonia Kupfer will share her insights into the impact of globalization on tertiary education.  She will discuss the notion of globalization, general changes of higher education systems, a theoretical concept for comparative analysis she has developed, and examples of the changes in England and Germany.  Dr. Kupfer’s Qualification-Pyramid notion is highly applicable to various education systems and especially in the higher education level.  Even though her research experience lies in the contexts of Germany and the U.K., Dr. Kupfer’s in-depth discussion about this important topic will shed light on higher education reform in Vietnam where the globalization is currently taking place.

About Dr. Antonia Kupfer

Dr. Antonia Kupfer is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Education at the University of Southampton, UK.  Prior to this, Dr. Kupfer was at Harvard University where she held the Joseph A. Schumpeter Fellowship at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.  From 2004-2010, she was Assistant Professor at the Institute of Sociology at Johannes-Kepler-University in Linz, Austria, where her focus in research and teaching was in social theories and sociology of education. 

Dr. Kupfer studied Sociology, Political Sciences and Psychology at the Free University in Berlin. She received a PhD in Political Sciences in 2003 from the Heinrich-Heine-University in Duesseldorf (Germany) and a higher doctorate in sociology from the University of Linz (Austria) in 2010.  Her areas of research are sociology of education, social inequality, gender and qualitative methods.

Dr. Kupfer is co-editor of the Journal “Femina Politica – ZeitschriftfuerfeministischePolitikwissenschaft” with two special issues being published each year in Budrich Publishers and on the editorial board for the Journal of Education and Work and the Journal of International Studies in the Sociology of Education.  She is a member of various organizations among these are the International Association of Sociology (ISA) and the Research Committee on Education (RC04), the German Society of Sociology (DGS) and its Section on Education.