10/6: FIRST ANNUAL OVERSEAS TALENT AND HIGHER EDUCATION IN CHINA CONFERENCE

FIRST ANNUAL OVERSEAS TALENT AND HIGHER EDUCATION IN CHINA CONFERENCE
哈佛高等教育与人才会议
10:00AM to 3:00PM on Saturday, October 6
Larsen Hall, 14 Appian Way, Cambridge MA
Harvard Graduate School of Education
FREE ADMISSION (PLEASE RSVP IF POSSIBLE)
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As China accelerates into the 21st century, growth driven by financial capital is transforming into a paradigm of human capital growth. Higher education and returned overseas talent as the engine of this growth is the subject of this conference organized by the Center on China and Globalization (CCG), a leading independent think tank, and MyCOS Data, China’s premier higher education consulting firm, and the China Education Symposium at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Come discuss these highly relevant topics with two of China’s most respected organizations and with Harvard faculty and leaders. Conference conducted entirely in English.

Presenters:
Henry Huiyao Wang, Director General, CCG
Dr. Jiao Guo HGSE ’12, Chief Research Officer, MyCOS Data
Kane Zhang, Vice President of Research & Development, MyCOS Data

Guest Speakers:
Julian Chang, Executive Director, Rajawali Foundation Institute, Harvard Kennedy School
Dwight Perkins, Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy, Harvard Kennedy School
Jeffrey Williams, Executive Director, Harvard Center Shanghai

Schedule:
9:30-10:00AM Registration
10:00-10:30AM Opening remarks
10:30-11:15AM Session 1: Development of China’s Study Abroad
11:14AM-12:00PM Session 2: Chinese Returnees’ Entrepreneurship
Lunch (RSVP REQUIRED)
1:00-2:00PM Session 3: Chinese College Graduates’ Employment
2:00-3:00PM Roundtable discussion
Reception to follow

To RSVP, please go HERE or email [email protected]

Organizers:
The Center for China & Globalization (CCG) was established by overseas returned Chinese scholars in strategic partnership with research institutes at Tsinghua University, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, University of Nottingham and National University of Singapore. CCG’s scholars, business leaders and public policy experts from China and abroad conduct research and analysis on China’s economic, social, political and international development. It recently published the 2012 Annual Report on Chinese Returnees’ Entrepreneurship and the 2012 Annual Report on the Development of China’s Study Abroad through the Social Sciences Academic Press. http://www.ccg.org.cn

MyCOS Data is the most trusted brand in higher education consulting and outcome evaluation in China and has established the country’s first nationwide college graduate employment database. It uses rigorous data collection and mining technologies to provide analytical and consulting services for universities, governmental education bureaus and research institutions. In addition to its own research institute staffed by returned overseas scholars, MyCOS has research partnerships with the World Bank, UNESCO and The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. It has surveyed six consecutive years of university graduates and collected one million survey responses in 2012. MyCOS has published four annual editions of the widely regarded Chinese College Graduates’ Employment Annual Report through the Social Sciences Academic Press. http://www.mycos.com

MyCOS is recruiting researcher-consultants with a competitive salary and options benefits and paid interns for its Beijing office. If you are interested, please visit http://en.mycos.com/ for details.

The China Education Symposium is an official student organization of the Harvard Graduate School of Education that promotes conversation and practice related to education in China by connecting and supporting young practitioners, scholars, policymakers and other relevant parties.