The Global Seminar on Strategic Issues in Higher Education was a summit meeting of international higher education experts, addressing questions of the Ownership and Quality in higher education, going beyond the established views. The Seminar comprised four panel debates in two sessions, each panel involving a number of panellists with complementary points of views, responding to each other, and followed by a question and answer session with participation of HEIs and HEAs leadership.

Session 1: Ownership of Higher Education
Panel 1.1: Changing patterns in the relationships of universities to national / supranational states and international financial and trade interests
Panel 1.2: Competing Leadership for Reform of Higher Education in Europe

Session 2: Quality between/beyond QA and Ranking
Panel 2.1: QA vs. Ranking
Panel 2.2: Quest for Quality in Higher Education