Prof. Sarah GURI-ROSENBLIT
	Member of the Regional Scientific Committee for Europe and North America

Country: Israel Current position: Professor of Education, Open University of Israel, Israel Visiting Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Israel Head, Accreditation Committee, Open University of Israel, Israel Academic discipline: Ph.D. in Education, Stanford University, California, USA Published in areas of: Democratisation of HE systems; access to HE; trends and challenges of HE; comparative studies of distance and campus universities; HE in the Mediterranean; virtual universities and their functional roles; social equality and accountability through distance teaching; curriculum reforms; selectivity and openness in Israel HE; equality and excellence in HE; teaching a special holocaust curriculum; legal aspects of distance learning; the Israeli HE in the third millennium; collaboration between universities and teaching training colleges; school management; advanced diploma studies; quality control mechanisms; providing HE to socially disabled populations; differential impacts of information technologies on various HE sectors. Former Director, "Rethinking Higher Education Program" co-sponsored by the Israeli Council for Higher Education and the Israel Academy of Sciences; Member, task committee 'Past, present and future of liberal education' of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation; Member, International Research Group, Center for Studies in HE, University of California, Berkeley, USA; Former Director, "Rethinking Higher Education Program" co-sponsored by the Israeli Council for Higher Education and the Israel Academy of Sciences.