On 31 May and 1 June 2022, Professor Norihiko Tokitoh, executive vice-president for research and evaluation, attended THE Asia Universities Summit 2022, held for three days through 2 June by Times Higher Education, publisher of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings.
EVP Tokitoh participated in two sessions, one on 31 May and the other on 1 June. In the first of these, he joined representatives from some of the RU11-member universities to discuss the "challenges and prospects for the THE World University Rankings: Japanese universities perspectives". In the second, entitled "Is creating talent about transforming access to university?", he introduced some examples of the use of online tools at Kyoto iUP (link below) and exchanged opinions with participants from Chitkara University, Mahidol University, and Coursera Inc.
