Prof. Ulrich TEICHLER
	Chair of the Regional Scientific Committee for Europe and North America and member of the Global Scientific Committee

Country: Germany Current position: Professor, University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany Professor, College of Europe, Bruges, Europe Director, Centre for Research on HE and Work, University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany Academic discipline: Ph.D. in Sociology, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany Published in areas of: Higher education and employment; international comparison of the development of HE systems; international student and academic mobility; international academic recognition; implementation of HE reforms, evaluation in HE; curricula in HE; education and social selection; adult education; Socrates/Tempus/Erasmus evaluation; recognition in temporary study abroad; education and selection in Japan; new civil service colleges reforms; student cost and financing; professional competences in education and employment in Japan and Germany; HE in USSR and in the USA; practice-orientation and institutional issue of HE; admission to HE; massification; employment and working conditions of academic staff. Vice President, Society for Research into Higher Education (SHRE), London, UK.