The report examines how the learning experience is being influenced by rapidly advancing technology, changing the way people engage with education. It also looks at how these developments can be capitalised on, to maximise the effectiveness of learning delivery in the workplace.
A free copy of the OU’s Trends in Learning 2016 report can be downloaded. More...

This paper studies the linkages between schools’ inputs and students’ performance in Latin America. We exploit the richness of PISA 2012 questionnaires at the student and school level to study the association between a different set of inputs and students’ performance in mathematics. More...

Par Jean Abbiateci. Ici commence notre plongée dans le monde des diploma mills, ces moulins à diplômes qui vous permettent pour quelques centaines ou milliers de francs, et sans consommer trop d’efforts ni de temps, de devenir docteur en aéronautique ou de décrocher un MBA en informatique.
Le principe de base est simple: à l’inverse de la contrefaçon de diplômes, une autre activité florissante sur Internet, qui vous permet d’acquérir un faux diplôme d’une université reconnue – Harvard ou Colombia –, le diploma mill vous vend un diplôme tout ce qu’il y a de plus authentique. Le seul problème, c’est que celui-ci n’aura aucune valeur, puisque l’école qui vous l’octroie n’est pas reconnue par les autorités du pays hôte. Voir l'article...

En 2016, dans le cadre du projet d’excellence 5-100, l’université nationale de recherche et technologie "MISiS" lance un programme de bourse international à destination des chercheurs étrangers. Voir l'article...

This white paper sets out a range of reforms to the higher education and research system. In some cases these plans are subject to Parliament.
This white paper builds on the proposals consulted on in the earlier green paper. More...

An assessment of the impact of publicly funded training on industry-level and firm-level productivity and wages. This research uses a range of data sources, including:

This study reviewed existing literature on teaching quality in higher education and assessed student opinions.
Teaching quality in higher education: literature review and qualitative research. More...

The Directorate General for Research and Innovation of the European Commission organises a two-day conference to explore and demonstrate how European research can support policy makers in designing effective and sustainable migration policies. To this end, past and current research on migration -including on integration, circular migration, migration and development, data and statistical modelling- will be presented and debated from a policy perspective.

Programme

Agenda  524 KB

Conference Report - Understanding and Tackling the Migration Challenge: The Role of Research

The Conference Report summarises the main discussions and conclusions of the conference, identifies immediate and long-term research needs and provides recommendations for policy making.

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Conference Presentations

• R. King: Migration: Facing Realities and Maximising Opportunities  543 KB
• A. Savary  197 KB
• B. Anderson  244 KB
• A. Lulle: How could research have better anticipated the current migration crisis?  332 KB
• F. Heran: Looking forward: future migration trends and research needs for Europe  1.0 MB
• F. Soda: Looking forward: future migration trends and research needs for Europe  516 KB
• S. Carrera: Understanding and Tackling the Migration Challenge - The Role of Social Sciences Research  390 KB
• E. Macleod: UNHCR Jordan Cash Assistance Programme: Delivery against needs, innovation and the future of assistance  459 KB
• E. Macleod: Research and innovation - refugee situations  263 KB
• M. Malek: 1 Million refugees… 1 Million brains  12.7 MB
• H. Alhamada  173 KB
• S. Al Darra: Understanding and Tackling the Migration Challenge: The Role of Research  1.3 MB
• A. Roman: Research institutions and organisations: the way forward to integration of refugee researchers  1.2 MB
• R. Pozzo: Research institutions and organisations: the way forward to integration of refugee researchers  196 KB
• B. Szigeti: Labour market access of Researchers as humanitarian migrants  214 KB
• M. Kosmidis: “Understanding and Tackling the Migration Challenge – The Role of Research” Labour Market Access for TCN Researchers – Refugee aspect in Greece  206 KB
• C. Bachmann: Chance for Science  1.5 MB
• A. Schmauder: Higher Education for Refugees - Mapping Opportunities in Germany (and beyond?)  794 KB
• E. Dall: Science in Asylum  843 KB
• M. Hardman: Understanding and Tackling the Migration Challenge: The Role of Research Show-casing initiatives from across Europe  736 KB
• B. Richter  194 KB
• R. Penninx: Challenges and opportunities of migrants’ integration in the light of recent flows  413 KB
• P. Huber: Labor market impacts of migration and fiscal outcomes  344 KB
• A. Triandafyllidou: Socio-Cultural Challenges of Migrant Integration  273 KB
• G. DAmato: Politicisation of Migration in Europe  594 KB
• M. Georgiou: Why do communication technologies matter?  1.2 MB
• A. Veizis: Migration and Health... Medical and humanitarian assistance for people on the move, MSF experience and challenges  5.9 MB
• M. Nørredam: Migration and health: Organising access to EU health care systems for migrants  2.6 MB
• A. Geddes: Climate Change and Migration: Overview of the Scientific Evidence  2.1 MB
• I. Boas; Climate change and migration: the case of Syria – speech  286 KB
• I. Boas (2): Climate Change and Migration: the case of Syria – presentation  1.4 MB
• C. Boswell 4 Feb: Conclusions, first day  344 KB
• C. Boswell 5 Feb: Conclusions, second day  347 KB

Findings from social sciences and economic research will feature at the conference alongside short- to long-term health care needs of migrants as well as the link between climate change and current and future migratory processes. More...

Today at CWTS we are releasing the 2016 edition of our Leiden Ranking. The CWTS Leiden Ranking is a web tool that provides a suite of bibliometric statistics for a large number of research-intensive universities worldwide. We try to design and construct our ranking in accordance with the most recent insights in the field of bibliometrics and scientometrics. New editions of the ranking therefore usually include improvements compared with earlier editions, for instance by refining the methodology, improving the presentation of the statistics, or increasing the number of universities included in the ranking. More...

This project for the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills had two elements. Firstly it used publicly-available data to map funding in adult skills by government, employers and learners.
Secondly, findings were analysed alongside evidence of the benefits and returns from adult skills in order to assess which types of learning, for which types of learners, lead to the greatest economic returns in the labour market, learning progression and wider benefits, such as health and wellbeing outcomes. More...