In the framework of the Erasmus+ Higher Education Reform Experts (HERE) activities, a Roundtable on "Rethinking Lebanese higher education reform agenda: towards strategic needs and priorities" is going to be organised on Thursday, November 9, 2017 at the Lebanese Academic of Fine Arts (ALBA), Beirut.
This event is organised in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and Higher Education, as part of a series of Erasmus+ events contributing to higher education reform at national level.
The roundtable will offer an occasion to review the national strategy for HE after 10 years of its implementation and the HEREs interventions in the Lebanese HE since 2008 in the aim of identifying the new challenges and planning the future course of actions. Guy Haug, a European expert of international reputation, will participate in this event to animate the discussions and benchmark with the EU higher education reform agenda.
Several challenges are facing the Lebanese Higher Education and its development. The Erasmus+ Higher Education Reform Experts promoting modernisation of Higher Education are calling for a workshop to discuss those challenges and possible strategic visions to meet the challenges and further develop the sector.
After ten years of the announcement of the strategic plan for higher education in Lebanon there is a clear need to identify the present challenges, to openly discuss the major elements of that plan and the achievements accomplished during the past years. The Higher Education Reform Experts team1 has also been promoting modernisation and the culture of change since 2008, an action highly inspired from the development in the Bologna process and with the European Higher Education Area. There is a need to conduct an analysis of the impact of these actions and how to proceed in the coming years.
The workshop placed under the title of "Rethinking Lebanese Higher Education" will shed the lights on the latest development in the sector and the different accomplishments. It will also form an occasion to identify the challenges facing the Lebanese Higher Education and to point some of the difficulties that have been felt in the past years in the processes of change. The workshop shall profit from the presence of M. Guy Haug, a well know expert in the Bologna process and modernisation of higher education.
For each item, a short presentation shall be provided by a Lebanese expert and the European perspective shall be drawn by Mr. Haug before debating the issues.
The workshop shall end with a set of recommendations.
It is worth noting that the HERE team will be distributing, as usual in such events, a reader that provides background elements and facts for the workshop.