UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN, CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA

March 5-7, 2023

On March 5-7, 2023, the University of Cape Town and IE University will host the 13th edition of “Reinventing Higher Education”, a conference designed to examine issues set to impact academia, government, and the private sector, as their future workforce continues to face an ever-changing environment. The event, hosted by UCT in Cape Town, will gather experts from all continents to address questions critical to academia, government and the private sector on the role of universities as global agents of innovation and the need for education systems to be responsive as well as catalysts for positive change in our societies.

The theme for the 2022 conference will be “New Humans, New Society, New Higher Education” and it will address key questions on the values behind constant and speedy changes and in the differences between the future for the global south / north, inclusion, diversity and accessibility in the current context, and responsible and cohesive leadership in higher education in the midst of global geopolitical tensions.

Launched in 2010 at IE University, Reinventing Higher Education is a symposium organized in collaboration with the IE Foundation. The overarching aim of the Conference is to provide a platform where university administrators, policy makers, entrepreneurs and top managers, academics, student representatives and media experts can meet to discuss the current status and future evolution of Higher Education (HE), and debate the direction research, learning, governance and management of universities should now take.