President Nakano Joins Globally Live-Streamed International Symposium
On November 17, 2020, an international symposium was held online under the sponsorship of IE University, Spain, one of Hitotsubashi University (HU)¡¯s partner institutions for global exchange programs. President Nakano participated as a panelist.
Under the symposium¡¯s theme ¡°Reinventing Higher Education: New Realities, New Visions for Higher Education,¡± the four panelists from prestigious universities in Japan, United Kingdom, France, and South Africa discussed issues facing higher education in the post-coronavirus era.
The panelists were as follows;
Satoshi Nakano, President, Hitotsubashi University, Japan
Anthony C. Grayling, Master, New College of the Humanities, United Kingdom
Fr¨¦d¨¦ric Mion, President, Sciences Po, France
Mamokgethi Phakeng, Vice-Chancellor, University of Cape Town, South Africa
In the panel discussion, President Nakano talked about the HU¡¯s initiatives for COVID-19 and his vision toward the future after the pandemic. All the panelists expressed their willingness toward university reform to transform the crisis into an opportunity.
The sympodium was live-streamed globally on YouTube.
