After the three years of extensive field work in Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine, the ECMI Eastern Partnership Programme will conclude this summer. The final conferences will take place in Kyiv, Ukraine between 15 and 18 May 2017.
Throughout the last three years, the EPP team has conducted 42 events in the target countries, attended by over 1700 participants. More...
26 septembre 2017
Final EPP conference: results of the three-year project to be presented in Kyiv
ECMI Annual Report 2016 is now online!
ECMI Annual Reports highlight the main research, analysis, action and documentation results of the European Centre for Minority Issues. As such, the reports manifest how the Centre manages its ambition of delivering high-quality research, policy-relevant analysis, and of building bridges between majority-minority relations’ theory and practice. More...
Lifelong learning requires an evolving university
By Margaret Andrews. The World Health Organization shows global average life expectancy for those born in 2015 at 71.4 years – an increase from the cohort born in 2000, whose life expectancy at birth was 66.4. As you might imagine, life expectancy numbers range widely by country, from a high of 89.5 years in Monaco to a low of 50.2 in Chad, and everything in between. For example, Japan has an average life expectancy of 85, Iceland’s is 83, France’s is 81.8, the United Kingdom’s is 80.7, the United States’ is 79.8, Mexico’s is 75.9, Saudi Arabia’s is 75.3 and India’s is 68.5. More...Joint project to tackle disaster from space
Australia’s top science organisation, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation or CSIRO, is to conduct joint research with US-based Radiant.Earth into satellite imagery and earth observation data for promoting disaster resilience and tackling critical issues in health, climate change and sustainable water management, mainly in the Asia-Pacific region. More...Why Beall’s blacklist of predatory journals died
By Paul Basken, The Chronicle of Higher Education. Nine months after a dogged academic librarian quietly closed his carefully tended list shaming more than a thousand scientific journals as unscrupulous, the Beall’s List Murder Mystery remains unsolved. More...Despair over new medical college admissions changes
By Shuriah Niazi. The tragic suicide by medical school hopeful S Anitha, 17, in the Southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu after she unsuccessfully fought against the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test or NEET in India’s Supreme Court has touched a nerve in the country, and has become a symbol of the despair of thousands of other young aspirants like her. More...Universities told to step up anti-extremism measures
By Ameen Amjad Khan. With a rising tendency towards extremism among university students from privileged backgrounds, Pakistan’s Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal last week urged university vice-chancellors to step up anti-radicalisation measures on campuses. More...Universities need to embrace a more global outlook
By Bruno Morche. Latin American universities have dropped several places in the rankings that have been released in the last few weeks. In the latest Times Higher Education World University Rankings, Brazil, for example, has only 21 universities on the list against 27 last year; two of Colombia's five universities dropped down and the same was the case for Chile and Mexico. More...Changing higher education to achieve social inclusion
By V Santhakumar. Higher education can be used for the social and economic mobility of underprivileged sections. This is achieved usually by providing admission to a set of students from these sections in universities and other institutes of higher education through the reservation of a quota of seats. More...
