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Yann Lebeau

Yann Lebeau

Yann Lebeau is Professor of Higher Education Research, and Head of the School of Education and Lifelong Learning at the University of East Anglia. He joined the School in 2007 after holding teaching and research positions in France (Brest, Bordeaux), in Nigeria (Ibadan) and at the UK's Open University. His research interests are in the sociology of higher education communities and where higher education, policy and social change intersect. He has done extensive empirical research on the University/society nexus and on questions of international policy transfers, internationalisation, academic mobility, in Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, and in Europe. Yann is a member of several education and development research networks. He has been involved for over 20 years in the design and delivery of research training and research capacity building programmes worldwide, notably with the Open Society Foundations and with the Council for the Development of Social Sciences in Africa (CODESRIA).

UNESCO鈥檚 2019 Global Convention for Recognition of Qualifications: What does it mean for Higher Education in the Global South?

Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic was about to severely disrupt international mobility when UNESCO launched in November 2019 a plan to redefine that mobility as a global project. The Global Convention for the Recognition of Qualifications in Higher Education (hereafter GC)鈥

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