Universities in the 'Performance Age': Issues and Changes in Higher Education in France and the United Kingdom
Place: Maison Française d'Oxford
Research programme: Nation and Globalization
Friday 17 February 2012
2.00pm Welcome by Luc Borot, Director of the Maison Française and Jean Viviès, Vice-President for International Relations, University of Aix-Marseille
Session One, 2.30pm-6.00pm: Performance Definitions and Measurements in Public Services
Chair: Hubert Ertl (University of Oxford)
2.30pm Ruth Dixon (University of Oxford)
Performance Management, Performance Measurements: The Way to Better Public Services?
3.30pm Jennifer Ozga (University of Oxford)
Governing Education by Numbers
5.00pm Corine Eyraud (University of Aix-Marseille/MFO)
Performance Indicators for French Higher Education: Construction Process and Current Issues
Saturday 18 February 2012
Session Two, 9.30am-1.00pm: Performance Management, Assessment and Rankings
Chair: Jean Viviès (University of Aix-Marseille)
9.30am Jane Broadbent (Roehampton University) and Richard Laughlin (King's College London):
Performance Management of Higher Education: A Conceptual and Empirical Analysis
10.30am Lise Gastaldi (University of Aix-Marseille)
Assessments and Rankings in French Higher Education: A Case Study
12.00am Susan Robertson and Roger Dale (Bristol University):
University rankings, 1,2,3,4...
Round table, 2.00pm-4.00pm
Chair: Luc Borot (MFO)
Anne Corbett (London School of Economics), Nathalie Halgand (University of Nantes), Howard Hotson (University of Oxford), Paola Mattei (University of Oxford), Jean Viviès (University of Aix-Marseille)