Author
Ellen Hazelkorn
Ellen Hazelkorn is joint managing partner, BH Associates education consultants, and professor emeritus at the Technological University Dublin. She is joint editor of Policy Reviews in Higher Education, international co-investigator at the Centre for Global Higher Education, London, and research fellow at the Centre for International Higher Education, Boston College.
She has been a member of the Commission on the College of the Future (UK), and the Strada Education Network/Lumina Foundation Global Postsecondary-Workforce Initiative (USA). She was policy advisor to, and board member of, the Higher Education Authority (Ireland), 2011-2017, and President of EAIR – the European Society for Higher Education (2013-2016).
Recent publications include Relationships between Higher Education and the Labour Market – A Review of Trends, Policies and Good Practices; a UNESCO commissioned study prepared ahead of the third world conference on higher education (forthcoming 2021); Skills and Smart Specialisation. The role of Vocational Education and Training and Adult Learning in Smart Specialisation Strategies (EU, 2019); Maximising universities’ civic contribution. A policy paper (Cardiff: Welsh Centre for Public Policy 2018); and Towards 2030: a framework for building a world-class post- compulsory education system for Wales (Welsh Government, UK 2016).
3 pieces
Newest first, since February 2018
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Do global rankings tell us anything meaningful about higher education?
Marking publication of a new edited collection of essays, Ellen Hazelkorn and Georgiana Mihut explore how 20 years of university rankings have shaped global higher education
With Georgiana Mihut
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The Westminster government’s skills agenda is the narrowest of all the UK nations
As the Independent Commission publishes its vision for the College of the Future for Wales, Ellen Hazelkorn assesses how the Skills for Jobs white paper measures up against its counterparts in the devolved nations.
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Public trust and accountability: a time of special challenge
The latest instalment of our HE futures series sees Tom Boland and Ellen Hazelkorn suggest how new accountability mechanisms can restore public trust in HE.
With Tom Boland