HIGHER EDUCATION FUNDING ASSESSMENT
Round-table discussion “Assessment of the Current Funding Model’s Alignment
with Stated Policy Objectives”
April 23, 2014
Location: Radisson Blu Hotel Latvija
Conference Room Sigma, Elizabetes Street 55, Riga
15.00 – 15.10
Opening
Agrita Kiopa, Director of the Department of Higher Education,
Science and Innovations, Ministry of Education and Science
Dita Traidās, Director of the State Education Development Agency
15.10 – 15.30
Strategic Priorities in Higher Education as Derived from the
Policy Planning Documents
Sanda Liepiņa, State Secretary of the Ministry of Education and
Science
15.30 – 15.50
Current
Funding
Model’s
‘Strategic
Fit’
with Higher Education Policy Objectives
Hans Vossensteyn, Director of the Center for Higher Education
Policy Studies, the Netherlands, World Bank Financing Expert
15.50 – 16.10
Coffee break
16.10 – 16.30
Proposals for a Potential Further Alignment of Funding and
Higher Education Policy Objectives
Hans Vossensteyn, Director of the Center for Higher Education
Policy Studies, the Netherlands, World Bank Financing Expert
Jussi Kivistö, Lecturer at the University of Tampere, Finland,
World Bank Financing Expert
16.30 – 16.50
Discussion
Moderated by Jason Weaver, World Bank Education Specialist
16.50 – 17.00
Conclusions and closing
Agrita Kiopa, Director of the Department of Higher Education,
Science and Innovations, Ministry of Education and Science
Working language: English