News archive - [Event Announcement] 25th CHER Conference: Higher Education and Social Dynamics
The 25th CHER annual conference will take place in Belgrade, Serbia from September 10 to 12, 2012. The conference will be organized by the Centre for Education Policy (CEP) and the Centre for Education Policy Studies of the University of Ljubljana Faculty of Education (CEPS).
For the first time since its foundation, the CHER conference will be held in this part of Europe and it will gather eminent researchers in the field of higher education in Europe and beyond.
Important information
- CHER 2012 conference registration opens on May 1 2012.
- Early bird registration deadline: 31 July 2012.
- Final registration deadline: 31 August 2012
- Abstract Submission opens on February 1 and closes on 2 April 2012 at 13:00 CET.
- Acceptance of abstracts will be announced no later than 15 May 2012.
More information on the registration process can be found here.
Background Information:
CHER - Consortium of Higher Education Researchers
CHER was founded during a first conference on November, 24-26, 1988 in Kassel (Germany) where some 50 scholars from 17 countries met to discuss the current state and future avenues in the field of higher education research. These scholars agreed to form a international network of higher education researchers. A steering group of seven persons was established. In 1993 CHER was changed into a foundation under Dutch law with a board of governors of seven persons. Currently, CHER counts some 160 members from more than 30 countries, from whom almost a quarter are from outside Europe. The CHER secretariat, previously hosted at CHEPS, University of Twente, has moved with the year 2001 to the Centre for Research on Higher Education and Work, University of Kassel, Germany.
There are some principles that were accepted by CHER as being relevant for the activities to be undertaken:
- A first principle is that the emphasis of CHER should be on the exchange of ideas with the objective to improve the theoretical bases and the quality of research on higher education.
- A second principle is that CHER develops links with international organisations involved in research and policy on higher education CHER seeks support of these organisations, without becoming closely associated with a single one of them.
- A third principle is that in order to structure the organisation CHER is an individual membership organisation.
Given these objectives, CHER aims at developing activities in the field of research on higher education. It wants to stimulate cooperation in research projects and to develop further the internationalisation of higher education research.
CHER stimulates the development and implementation of an advanced international training programme on higher education in Europe.
Finally, CHER regularly organizes an international symposium to discuss the developments in higher education and higher education research.
More information is available here: http://www.uni-kassel.de/incher/CHER/Welcome.html
Date:
From: 10 September 2012
To: 12 September 2012
- International; Other
- Serbia
- Western Balkans
- Social Sciences
Entry created by Ines Marinkovic on May 20, 2012
Modified on May 21, 2012
