SPEAKERS CURRICULUM VITAE EXLIMA & INDOTRACE EXLIMA Speakers Curriculum Vitae EXLIMA & INDOTRACE Speakers Abstract Title Tracer Study Worldwide: New developments and old problems of tracer studies (abstract number: 1) Name Harald SCHOMBURG Employer Researcher of the International Centre for Higher Education Research (INCHER-Kassel) at the University Kassel (Germany) Sex Male Date of Birth Mobile E-mail [email protected]; [email protected] Bio Trained as a social scientist, was the key researcher of the International Centre for Higher Education Research (INCHER-Kassel) at the University Kassel (Germany) in areas of higher education and employment, survey methods and quantitative data analysis for more than 30 years. He played a major role in the longitudinal study on the impact of study conditions and provisions on careers and job assignments in Germany and in the survey on the relationships between higher education and employment in 11 European countries and Japan (CHEERS Project). Harald created and managed the German Tracer Study Network project (KOAB) - a regular survey system with more than 80 participating institutions of higher education in Germany and Austria. For more than a decade, he was active in consultancy and conducting training programs for scholars and administrators wishing to undertake graduate surveys as a feedback for their own university. He wrote three handbooks/guides on the methods of undertaking graduate surveys and conducted training programs in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Harald is the founder and coordinator of the International Graduate Tracer Studies Network (INGRADNET). Latest publication: Harald Schomburg: Carrying out tracer studies. In: ETF/CEDEFOP/ILO (eds.): Guide to anticipating and matching skills and jobs. Volume 6. Torino: ETF 2015 (in print). International Confrence on EXLIMA & Workshop and Training on INDOTRACE | 3 Curriculum Vitae EXLIMA & INDOTRACE Speakers Abstract Title NEET AFew Days, NEET Always in France? (abstract number: 8) Name Christine GUÉGNARD Employer Senior Researcher at the Institute of Research on Sociology and Economics of Education (IREDU) Sex Female Date of Birth Mobile E-mail [email protected] Bio Christine GUEGNARD is senior researcher at the Institute of Research on Sociology and Economics of Education (IREDU), associated to Cereq (the French Center for Research on Education, Training and Employment), at the University of Burgundy, Dijon, France. Her research activities cover first the 1001 facets of the training and employment relationship, especially youth transitions (apprentices, VET & Higher Education graduates), and second, the assessment of educational or employment policies in terms of equal opportunities such as the access to higher education, lifelong learning, careers in hotels and catering. Moreover, she was involved in European research programs (Embac, Dehems, Reflex, Low- Wage Workers, Eco-Net, Meda, Tacis, Leonardo Da Vinci) and provided methodological and scientific support to Training and Employment Observatories in various European and Mediterranean countries. International Confrence on EXLIMA & Workshop and Training on INDOTRACE | 4 Curriculum Vitae EXLIMA & INDOTRACE Speakers Abstract Title Work-Integrated Learning and Learning Outcomes (abstract number: 5); Competency and Work Requirement in the Early Career Stage (abstract number: 14) Name Keiichi YOSHIMOTO Employer Distinguished Professor, Director of the Research Centre for Tertiary Education and Qualifications, Kyushu University, Japan Sex Male Date of Birth 1954 Mobile E-mail [email protected] Bio Keiichi Yoshimoto was born in 1954, graduated from Faculty of Education, The University of Tokyo, left Graduate School of Education, The University of Tokyo in 1985 and received the degree of Ph.D. in Education (Kyushu University) in 2005. After working in National Institute of Employment and Vocational Research, Japan Institute of Labour and National Institute of Multimedia Education, he moved to Kyushu University. He also works as a Program Officer, Research Center for the Science Systems, Japan Society for The Promotion of Science. He is currently, President of Japan Society of Internship and Work Integrated Learning. Board member of Japanese Association of Higher Education Research. Board member of Japanese Society of Educational Sociology. He published more than two hundreds of papers and scientific reports such as Keiichi Yoshimoto and Yuki Inenaga eds.(2013) ‘Work Integrated Learning in Tertiary Education: The cases of the United States of America, Germany, the United Kingdom and Australia’, “Higher Education Research Series”, No.122, pp.1-121, Hiroshima University (Japanese) ; Jim Allen, Yuki Inenaga, Rolf van der Velden and Keiichi Yoshimoto eds.(2007) “Competencies, Higher Education and Careers in Japan and the Netherlands”, Kluwer Academic Publishers (English). International Confrence on EXLIMA & Workshop and Training on INDOTRACE | 5 Curriculum Vitae EXLIMA & INDOTRACE Speakers Abstract Title Assessing the Quality of Higher Education: Uses and misuses of university rankings (abstract number: 17) Name Francesco FERRANTE Employer Full Professor of Economics (Department of Economics and Law, UNICLAM) Sex Male Date of Birth 1961 Mobile E-mail [email protected] Bio Francesco Ferrante (1961) is Full Professor of Economics (Department of Economics and Law, UNICLAM). He holds a BA and a PhD in Economics (York University, UK). Ferrante’s recent research interests include the effects of university inputs and university organization on students achievement and graduates employability; the impact of education and social programs on the labor market; labor market institutions and macroeconomic performance; education and subjective well being; the role education in entrepreneurship and growth. For several years, he has held the position of chair of B.A and Master programs in Economics. Other appointments: Chair, Academic spin off commission, University of Cassino; AlmaLaurea scientific adviser; Cefop scientific board, Luiss University; Research director, Imprendilab, Department of Economics and Law, UNICLAM; Co-founder and vice- president, Mechanimata Ltd, Academic spin off; Member of the Senate of UNICLAM. Francesco Ferrante has released interviewes on issues regarding HE and the labour market to national newspapers and magazines, national and international television networks, national radio broadcasting. International Confrence on EXLIMA & Workshop and Training on INDOTRACE | 6 Curriculum Vitae EXLIMA & INDOTRACE Speakers Abstract Title Changes in Labour Market Adaptation of Master Graduates over Time (abstract number: 7) Name Jannecke WIERS-JENSSEN Employer Associate Professor at the Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences in Oslo, Norway Sex Female Date of Birth Mobile E-mail [email protected] Bio Jannecke Wiers-Jenssen is associate professor at the Oslo and Akershus university college of applied sciences in Oslo, Norway, and in addition holds a position at NIFU – Nordic Institute for Studies in Research and Education. The topic of her PhD thesis in Sociology from the University of Oslo was student mobility and the professional value of higher education from abroad. She publishes widely in international and national journals. Her publications include a range of topics within the field of higher education, such as internationalization of higher education, student mobility, student satisfaction, quality issues, medical education and transition from higher education to work. She has been working with the Norwegian graduate surveys that NIFU conduct for a number of years, and also been involved in designing an analyzing a Nordic graduate suvey. Among the publications from the Norwegian graduate survey is: Storen, L.A & Wiers-Jenssen, J. (2010). Foreign Diploma Versus Immigrant Background: Determinants of Labour Market Success or Failure? Journal of Studies in International Education 14: 29-49. International Confrence on EXLIMA & Workshop and Training on INDOTRACE | 7 Curriculum Vitae EXLIMA & INDOTRACE Speakers Abstract Title Oman Graduate Survey 2015. Gender issues in higher education and transition to the labor market (abstract number: 3) Name Fatma Said Mohammed AL HAJRI Employer Graduate Survey Director Sector Higher Education, Ministry of Higher Education of Oman Sex Female Date of Birth 30 January 1983 Mobile (+968) 92829100 E-mail [email protected] Bio She is Graduate Survey Director Sector Higher Education, Ministry of Higher Education of Oman. The topic of her PhD thesis in Educational Assessment from The University of Edinburgh, UK was An Evaluation of the Effectiveness and Predictive Validity of English Language Assessment in Two Colleges of Applied Sciences in Oman. She publishes widely in international and national journals. Her publications include a range of topics within the field of Language Assessment, such as internationalization of The predictive validity of language assessment in a pre-university programme, teacher perceptions of student performance, and student perceptions of the foundation programme assessment. International Confrence on EXLIMA & Workshop and Training on INDOTRACE | 8 Curriculum Vitae EXLIMA & INDOTRACE Speakers Abstract Title Struggling with Perception of Tracer Study Results within the University: A never ending story? Experiences from University of Kassel (abstract number 18) Name Vera WOLF Employer Coordinating researcher of the regular graduate tracer studies of the