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<p style="direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 2px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Association of Commonwealth Universities(ACU) vice-chancellor summit 2024 under the theme
of "charting the future of higher education through funding, employability, excellence, and the digital frontier" will bring together Commonwealth vice-chancellors, education ministers and international higher education stakeholders from over 20 countries. </span></p>
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<p style="direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">This in-person event, open exclusively to ACU member vice-chancellors, will explore some of the most
pressing issues facing universities and vice-chancellors today through a series of closed-door roundtables, covering topics including higher education funding, research management, and the implications of AI. </span></p>
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<p style="direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Outcomes from these dialogues will feed into the Conference of Commonwealth Education Ministers (CCEM)
meeting in London on 16-17 May 2024. </span></p>
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https://www.acu.ac.uk/acu-events/vc-summit-24/</a></span></p>
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<p style="direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Kathryn Bailey (Ethical Data Initiative) is invited to chair and present on session on
<b>“Fostering excellence: global perspectives on research management, collaboration and assessment”</b> for the Association of Commonwealth Universities vice-chancellor summit 2024. This is a good opportunity to share EDI’s work in this area including our contribution
to <b>Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment</b>. Details at </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(220, 161, 13);"><a href="https://coara.eu" id="OWAeabc7c3a-c0d7-94fe-b319-604f05282505" class="x_OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="color: rgb(220, 161, 13); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">https://coara.eu</a></span></p>
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<p style="direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Professor Suchith Anand</span></p>
<p style="direction: ltr; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Professor of Practice in Science Policy at the University of Exeter | Senior Adviser to Governments and
International Organisations | Scientist | Global Citizen | SDG Volunteer and Advocate</span></p>
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S.Anand@exeter.ac.uk</a> </span></p>
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