Registration and Coffee

Opening Remarks

• Patrick Hart, Director British Council Germany
  
  

Panel Discussion

• What is a PhD? What does it stand for?
• What is the institutional mission of your graduate education and how is it achieved through your recruitment, selection and admission processes and institutional framework conditions ?
• What are ideal doctoral candidates, how to select them and who sets the quality standards ?

• Speakers Germany:
  Annette Schmidtmann, Head of the Division Research Careers, German Research Foundation (DFG)
  
  
• Heike Küchmeister, Managing Director, Potsdam Graduate School
  Short biography
  
  
• Speaker USA:
  Ahmed T Abdelal, Provost, University of Massachusetts at Lowell
  Short biography
  
  
• Speaker U.K.
  Pam Denicolo, Director of Centre for P/G
  Graduate School for the Social Sciences
  University of Reading
  Short biography


• Speaker Australia:
  Alan Dench, Winthrop Professor, Dean, Graduate Research School, The University of Western Australia
  Short biography
  
  
• Speaker Canada:
  Douglas Peers, Professor of History, Dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Associate Vice-President Graduate at York University
  
Short biography


• Moderation:
  Jan-Martin Wiarda, Senior Editor, DIE ZEIT
  Short biography

Coffee

Final Plenary and Discussion

• Conclusion and future directions for the national debate

Reception & Buffet