The Higher Education Academy is holding a one-day symposium on 1 May at the University of Liverpool on teaching the transatlantic - its pedagogies and practices.
The interactive workshop - The transatlantic: towards a scholarship of learning and teaching - will consider pedagogies produced by the Caribbean and the transatlantic and is likely to be of particular interest to teachers of History, American Studies, Literature, and Languages.
Twenty years after the publication of Paul Gilroy’s The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness and 25 years after Bernabé, Chamoiseau and Confiant published their manifesto In Praise of Creoleness, this event will explore how teaching the transatlantic engages the ‘shattered histories’ (Walcott, 1998) of the Atlantic. More...

The Higher Education Academy (HEA) is inviting submissions for research proposals that relate to pedagogies of partnership and their impact on student learning.
Proposals are particularly sought in areas of research that will:
• increase our understanding of pedagogical approaches that foster partnership, with attention to disciplinary difference and context;
• provide evidence of the impact these pedagogies have on student learning;
• offer clear implications for teaching and learning practice linked to proposed project outputs.
The HEA welcomes proposals that incorporate a Europe-facing dimension to the work, although this is not a necessary criterion for a successful application. More...

Bookings are now open for the second Future Directions Conference, which takes place on 2 and 3 April 2014 at Aberystwyth University.
The event will launch the new Future Directions theme – Global Graduates: Enabling Flexible Learning and will feature a series of paper, poster, nano-teach, discussion and workshop sessions in the following themes: distinctive graduates, inspiring teaching, learning for employment, learner journeys, and students as partners. More...

A new report published today by the Higher Education Academy (HEA) has found that a blended approach to learning and teaching, where technology-enhanced learning takes place alongside more traditional approaches, should help students benefit from the value that lectures and seminars add to a higher education experience.
However, the report, Flexible Pedagogies: technology-enhance learning, goes on to emphasise that if students do not perceive traditional lectures and seminars to be valuable from a learning perspective then the age of campus-based education could be ending. It concludes that the best approach to higher education teaching is therefore to use technology to enhance the student learning experience by enabling greater flexibility.
The report can be downloaded here. More...

University 2014 - 9th International Congress of Higher Education - February 10th to February 14th, 2014, in Havana, Cuba - Havana Convention Centre

The Ministry of Higher Education and the universities of the Republic of Cuba convene for the 9^th International Congress of Higher Education “University 2014”, to be held from February 10^th to February 14^th, 2014, in Havana, Cuba.

Convened with the declaration “For a Socially Responsible University”, University 2014 renews the commitment of people attending these events with university and with its time, propitiating current reflections and debates on the field of Higher Education.
Congress University is well known as an academic field that point to reflective, deep and open dialogues among main parts of Higher Education and the society they belong to, in order to evaluate best solutions to pressing problems in the realities of our countries. Plus, it promotes new ideas about different issues related to international agenda of Higher Education and contributes to new networks knowledge and emotions among principals, teachers and students.

We welcome you pleased to receive you once again or for the first time, in our Congress University 2014, looking for a common objective:

“For a Socially Responsible University”

Contacts:
Executive Secretary University 2014
Phone: (537) 8351083
Email: univ2014@reduniv.edu.cu.

Quacquarelli Symonds have published the latest edition of their ranking of universities established in the last fifty years. The methodology is the same as that used in the 2013/2014 World University Rankings.

The top five are:

Nine of the top new universities are in Australia, five in Spain, four in Hong Kong, three in the USA and two each in Korea, UK, Canada, Germany and Sweden. Another 16 countries have one each in the top fity. Meabwhile Times Higher Education have announced that their top 100 new universities will be announced on 28 April at the Young Universities Summit which will be held in Miami in collaboration with Plymouth University, UK.

Sources: 
www.topuniversities.com
www.timeshighereducation.co.uk