University staff have confirmed the need for greater public investment in our universities, and more staff and student involvement in running institutions, according to the latest National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) State of the Uni survey. More...
Australia is amongst the eleven countries which have negotiated the CPTPP (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) since the United States pulled out. The new trade agreement is scheduled to be signed this March. More...
The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) says the latest Innovation and Science Australia (ISA) report shows that the freeze on university funding announced by the Minister for Education and Training late last year could be the trigger for an ice age in Australian innovation.
The Australia 2030: Prosperity through innovation report was released today by ISA – an independent body responsible for advising the Government on science, research and innovation matters. More...
Is your institution based outside of your capital city? Are you located in a country nobody can pin on a map? Selling your university's location is an essential part of your conversation with prospective students. More...
Now more than ever, universities around the world have come to understand the centrally important role that they play in delivering a better, more sustainable future for all. The EAIE has taken steps to further the sustainability initiative and encourage members of the field to do the same. More...
The Ranking Web of Universities (Webometrics) is published by the Cybermetrics Lab, part of the Spanish Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) and ranks over 27,000 universities. It has evolved to become a ranking based on web activity and research quality. Ranking is based on four indicators: presence, visibility, transparency and excellence. More...
Nature Index has just published an article by Dalmeet Singh Chawla showing the remarkable citations record of Switzerland. The country contributed three times the number of papers to the top 1% of highly cited papers than would be expected from a country of that size. More...
Secretary General Thorbjørn Jagland and Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen led tributes to the memory of Holocaust victims, at a ceremony outside the main Council of Europe building in Strasbourg. On 27 January 1945, the concentration camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau – where more than one million people had been sent to gas chambers to perish during the Holocaust – was liberated. The peace agreement that ended an inter-ethnic conflict in 2001 has led to changes, for example, in the fields of equitable representation of communities in public institutions, decentralisation and the use of languages. However, social cohesion has not been achieved. More.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
