Emma Sabzalieva & Hayfa Jafar - Global Developments in Higher Ed Policy
Come join us for a sneak peak into our graduate students’ presentations that have been accepted to the Comparative & International Education Society Conference in Atlanta, Georgia.
About the speakers
Emma Sabzalieva
Emma Sabzalieva is a 2nd year doctoral student at CIHE. Her core research interests are the politics of higher education and social change in contemporary Central Asia. Prior to moving to Canada in 2015, Emma pursued a successful career as a university administrator in the UK and Central Asia. She runs and is co-author of Managing your career in higher education administration (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).
Presentation Topic: Global players on their own terms: (Re)building images of higher education in Estonia and Kazakhstan
(Presentation collaboration with Dr. Merli Tamtik)
Hayfa Jafar
Hayfa Jafar is a PhD student in the Department of Leadership, Higher, and Adult Education at the University of Toronto, and an Institutional Research Analyst at Centennial College. Her research interest is transnational higher education. She will present the research idea of using foreign-backed/affiliated university model to diversifying the higher education in post- conflict Iraq. The central hypothesis of the idea is that a new independent, not-for profit, non-sectarian university in Iraq could have the potential to contribute to the HE system in its core functions of teaching and learning, research and services.
Presentation Topic: Predicting the impacts of internationalizing higher education in post-conflict Iraq