Sino-Swiss project on “Policy Dialigue on Financing Higher Education and Sustaining the Quality of Higher Education for Lifelong Learning”

Under the auspices of the OECD, CSEND experts established a framework to facilitate the development of a research network between Switzerland and China. The focus of this research network is to carry out comparative studies concerning the management and financing of higher education in the context of life long learning. For more detailed information and background documents please check

CSEND chaired a panel and gave papers on “The link between higher education and employability” and another paper on “Quality Evaluation in a Diversified Higher Education System – at an International Seminar on the Development of Higher Education and Financing Policies co-organised by OECD, Paris and the Ministry of Education, Beijing, China July 2004.

CSEND worked on a USAID-sponsored policy project for Booz Allen Hamilton. The goal of the study was to identify success factors of the Integrated Framework (IF) a WTO instrument targeted to support Least Developed Country’s supply-side deficiencies. Target interviews were conducted with officials of the Geneva-based IF agencies namely WTO, UNCTAD, UNDP and ITC. Geneva, August 2005.

CSEND wrote background paper for a policy seminar on “Designing a Strategy to Improve the Functioning of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol”, organised by the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Brussels. The title of the CSEND paper was “Hype or Reality: Can the CDM trigger FDI?, Brussels, October 2005.

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