IREG-7 Call for papers

The IREG-7 Conference will be held on 14-16th May 2014 at University College London and this year the theme centres on Employability. However, the IREG conference plays an important role in facilitating the discussion and debate around academic rankings in general. As such the programme is designed to emphasize employability but also explore other trends and developments and how they influence, or are influenced by academic rankings.

The first session will feature employers’ views in panel form, but for the remaining sessions the IREG-7 Programme Committee would like to invite you to submit papers in tune with the identified themes of the six other sessions:

SECOND SESSION

Employability and Skills Structure - A Lens for Assessing Performance of Higher Education Institutions and Study Programmes

THIRD SESSION

Universities Panel: Perspectives on Employability-related Responsibilities in Teaching and Life-long Learning

FOURTH SESSION

Methodological Challenges for Academic Rankings to Reflect Employability: Experiences of Ranking Providers

FIFTH SESSION

New Initiatives and Developments in Academic Rankings

SIXTH SESSION

MOOCs and Digital Delivery: Reflected in Rankings, Valued by Employers?

SEVENTH SESSION

Impacts of Academic Rankings on Planning, Policy and the International Landscape of Higher Education and Youth Employability

Wherever possible, session proposals should draw on new observations and data and tied to the theme of the session. Every effort will be made to accommodate high-quality papers that the Programme Committee consider of keen interest to the conference audience. Session titles may be adapted to ensure an engaging and consistently high-quality conference.

The first proposal [extensive outline] of the paper should be sent to secretariat@ireg-observatory.org no later than 31 December 2013. Authors who have been pre-selected will be contacted by the end of January 2014 to finalize their paper and deal with any organizational issues.

Update on 13 January 2014: The deadline to submit a paper proposal is now extended to 31 January 2014. If you would like to contribute, please submit a proposal for the following sessions only:

Third Session

Sixth Session

Seventh Session

More information about the IREG-7 Conference.