Volume 5, Issue 2, 2000
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TESOL 2001: GATEWAY TO THE FUTURE
FEBRUARY 27-MARCH 3, 2001, ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, USA
TESOL 2001: Gateway to the Future will offer English as a Second
Language (ESL) professionals a penetrating look at their profession – its
achievements as a discipline in the 21st century and its prospects for the future. The
conference features over 1,500 events including workshops, concurrent and academic
sessions, colloquia, breakfast seminars and an exhibition. For more information, contact
Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc., 700 South Washington Street,
Suite 200, Alexandria, VA, 22314, USA, tel.: (703) 836-0774 or fax: (703) 836-7864.
WORLD EDUCATION MARKET
MAY 21-24, 2001, VANCOUVER, BC
The World Education Market (WEM) is the world’s only
professional event dedicated to the international business of education, training and
lifelong learning. The annual marketplace provides an opportunity to network and build
partnerships with government, education and technology executives from around the world.
The conference program features extensive opportunities for learning, with sessions that
provide overviews of the needs and opportunities in the education marketplace, as well as
information on partnership and business models and best practices from around the world.
Visit www.wemex.com for more information.
WORLD OF EDUCATION EXPO 2001
APRIL 21-24, 2001, SAINT- PETERSBURG, RUSSIA
The first World Forum, Fair and Exhibition - World of Education
Expo 2001 - will be hosted by the Russian Academy of Education and Smolny University. The
Fair and Exhibition (April 21-22) will provide an opportunity for international
educational institutions to present their services and showcase their achievements. The
Forum (April 23-24) will focus on new educational and information technologies. Visit www.smolny-un.spb.ru for information.
GLOBALIZATION AND HIGHER
EDUCATION: VIEWS FROM THE SOUTH
MARCH 27-29, 2001, CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA
As the first international conference on the impact of globalization and higher
education from the perspective of the South, this event will focus on: the impact of
globalization on higher education in the South; higher education in transition in the
countries and regions of the South; relations in higher education between the advanced and
the less industrialized countries; differences in higher education in anglo- and
non-anglo-speaking countries of the South; international accreditation; the impact of
technology; higher education and regional development; financing higher education; and,
the "marketization" of higher education and implications for less industrialized
countries. Visit www.srhe.ac.uk/southafrica/globalHE.htm
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