ESRs will complete a PhD with an interdisciplinary supervisory team and benefit from a world-class training programme, including placements with one or more of their 23 international partners. Applicants from across the social sciences and humanities are welcomed, including anthropology, cultural and literary studies, education, history, legal theory and socio-legal studies, philosophy, politics, religious studies, sociology, and theology. More...
Call for participation in OECD Project : fostering and assessing creativity and critical thinking skills in higher education
The OECD Centre for Educational Research and Innovation is launching a new project on “fostering and assessing students’ creative and critical thinking skills in higher education”. The project is dealing with institutional development in the area of teaching and learning and invites the active participation of higher education institutions interested in developing their capacity in teaching and learning. More...
World Sustainable Energy Days 2018, 28 February to 2 March
The energy world will meet at the "World Sustainable Energy Days" from 28 February - 2 March 2018 in Wels, Austria. The conference programme is now available.
Energy efficiency and renewable energy are key to boosting the economic competitiveness of the EU, its member states, regions and individual businesses. Resulting economic growth provides jobs and the ability to invest in the further progress of the clean energy transition to the benefit of all citizens. More...
Symposium: Internationalisation of Universities and the National Language, 4 May 2018, Leuven, Belgium
On 4 May 2018, the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven) will organise an international symposium on the topic "Internationalisation of Universities and the National Language". This symposium fits into the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of KU Leuven as a Flemish university. More...
Student teachers protest over admission contract changes
Five universities lose engineering accreditation
Ongoing reform calls despite improved bar exam results
University dons dominate new list of AAS fellows
What kind of young people are we creating in our university graduates?
Several articles this week touch on the issue of disability: Wondwosen Tamrat argues for greater government intervention and more academic research in Ethiopia in order to translate policy into practice and help more disabled students succeed, while Wagdy Sawahel writes about new legislation in Egypt aimed at integrating students with disabilities into higher education. Stephen Coan highlights a new sabbatical grant programme by the National Research Foundation in South Africa aimed at improving research capacity specifically among black Africans and academics with disabilities.
In a Special Report on the international IE University ‘Reinventing Higher Education’ conference held in Spain last week, Paul Rigg reports on a discussion between the president of IE University, Santiago Íñiguez, and Thabo Mbeki, former president of South Africa and chancellor of the University of South Africa, on the global impact of higher education from an African perspective.
In news from around the continent, Maina Waruru provides an overview of the new selection of African Academy of Sciences fellows, while Gilbert Nakweya provides an update on the ongoing debates around the Kenya bar examination results. More...
What are the implications of the recent ‘closing’ of Chinese higher education?
In our World Blog this week, Patrick Blessinger, Jaimie Hoffman and Mandla Makhanya say the challenge before higher education leaders and policy-makers is to put in place policies and practices that support ‘inclusive excellence’ – high quality teaching and learning as well as a culture of inclusion.
In Features, Munyaradzi Makoni reports on a roundtable organised by the Academy of Science of South Africa to debate the relevance of global university rankings to African universities.
In a Special Report on the international IE University ‘Reinventing Higher Education’ conference held in Spain last week, Paul Rigg reports on a discussion between the president of IE University, Santiago Íñiguez, and Thabo Mbeki, former president of South Africa and chancellor of the University of South Africa, on the global impact of higher education from an African perspective. Rigg also reports on a discussion on the future of work and whether universities will be able to adapt quickly enough to the changes that are coming, as well as another discussion on whether and why universities should fight the trend of anti-globalisation. More...