The NTEU has recently held a ballot of its National Council, which voted to change the NTEU’s rules about how elected officers resign their position, and related matters. More...
30 décembre 2017
NTEU Lodges application to alter its Rules
University students to pay for corporate tax cuts
A freeze on university funding for two years from 1 January 2018, accompanied by a lowering of HECS/HELP repayment threshold from 1 July 2018, means that students are paying for corporate tax cuts, according to the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU). More...
Milestones, borders and boundaries: EAIE 2017 in review
It was a very good year! Perhaps not quite in the same sense as in Frank Sinatra’s classic song, but I have the impression that the EAIE really made significant progress on many fronts. One of the more obvious milestones was the Annual Conference & Exhibition in Seville. Not only did we have a record attendance of 6000 participants from 95 different countries, we also took strides in making the conference more sustainable and offset its carbon footprint. On top of that, we ran two successful Academies in Marseille and Warsaw, organised a Spotlight Seminar on Marketing and Recruiting in Amsterdam, and moved forward with our strategic goals. More...
Start them young: primary school teachers should teach SDGs
While our Winter issue of Forum focuses much on how international higher education can make an impact on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the final blog of Forum Week makes the case that we must start much earlier than university level. Implemented in 2015, we now have only 13 years to achieve Agenda 2030. More...
SDG 4: Europe’s efforts towards equitable education
The Education 2030, as part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, sets rather ambitious targets for the education sector. Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4 ‘Quality Education’ aims to ‘ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all’. More...
Piecing together a strong partnership for sustainability
With a theme of ‘The Sustainability Development Goals’ for the Winter edition of Forum, this issue is simultaneously intimidating and inspiring. The current state of our society, our consumption and our climate are all at risk. At the same time, much is already being done to improve the wellbeing of humankind as well as earth’s resources. As Forum Editor Laura Rumbley shared on yesterday’s blog, partnerships from all over Europe – and beyond – shared their initiatives for creating a more sustainable future. Today’s post highlights one of those mentioned: the U4 network. More...
Sustainable Development Goals: your inspiration to make a change
What do no poverty, zero hunger, gender equality, decent work and economic growth, and quality education have in common? Along with twelve other key objectives, these issues feature among the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs are laudable and, of course, important for the challenging times in which we live, but why should the SDGs matter to you or the EAIE? The current issue of EAIE’s Forum magazine aims to explore that very question. More...
Latest GreenMetric Ranking: Wageningen Takes the Lead
The latest GreenMetric ranking from Universitas Indonesia has just been announced with Wageningen University and Research Centre taking the lead from the University of California Davis.
These rankings are rather unusual in that they measure universities’ commitment to environmental sustainability. More...
New University Rating for UAE
Higher education in the United Arab Emirates has expanded rapidly since the founding of the United Arab Emirates University in 1976. There are now over one hundred institutions of higher education with about 140,000 students. Three universities are now ranked in the world’s top 500 by QS and one by Times Higher Education. The Emirates also host branch campuses of famous schools such as New York University, Curtin University, the London Business School, and the Sorbonne. More...
Moscow International Ranking "The Three University Missions" released
The pilot version of the Three Missions University Ranking, also known as the Moscow International University Ranking, is a project sponsored by the Russian Union of Rectors and run by the Association of Rating Makers, which includes Expert RA, VCIOM, Reputatsiya and others. Ranking initiative has been supported by leading universities of Russia, China, India, Iran, Japan, and Turkey. More...
