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21 août 2015

EURASHE Conference “Striving for Excellence in Higher Education: Bringing Education and the World of Work Together”

Mercredi 18 Novembre 2015 - Jeudi 19 Novembre 2015 - London, Royaume-Uni
The conference will present the outcomes of 2 years of: researching quality tools in Europe, developing a framework for excellence, testing this framework in pilot assessments, and validating it with consultations and surveys.

Registrations are free of charge. Participants are responsible for their own transport and accommodation. The conference will be hosted at Chelsea College of Arts, 16 John Islip Street, London, SW1P 4JU, United Kingdom – next to Tate Britain, on the Victoria line. Voir l'article...

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17 août 2015

New centres of excellence for East and Southern Africa

By Munyaradzi Makoni. The World Bank-backed African Centres of Excellence initiative is expanding from Central and West Africa to East and Southern Africa. A call for universities that can develop highly skilled personnel and conduct applied research to meet the economic and developmental needs of the region was made in Uganda last month. Read more...

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15 août 2015

Want to raise the quality of teaching? Begin with academic freedom

By Keith Burnett. Sir Keith Burnett considers the challenges of introducing a teaching excellence framework. More...

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11 août 2015

L'alternance, voie d'excellence ?

Par Barbara Leblanc. Une formule magique contre le chômage, un engagement présidentiel ou encore un cursus qui a sa propre fête... L'alternance est considérée actuellement comme une voie idéale pour permettre aux jeunes de s'insérer plus facilement sur le marché du travail. Voir l'article...

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6 août 2015

Summer Updates from Abroad (2): The UK Teaching Excellence Framework

By Alex Usher. The weirdest – but also possibly most globally consequential – story from this year’s higher education silly season comes from England. It’s about something called a “Teaching Excellence Framework”.
Now, news of nationally-specific higher education accountability mechanisms don’t often travel. Because, honestly, who cares? It’s enough trouble keeping track of accountability arrangements in one’s own country. More...

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6 août 2015

The challenge of making TEF-lite work

The University Alliance hosted a stimulating event to discuss the threats and opportunities of the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) earlier today. Not only were there platform speeches from senior people from HEFCE, BIS, Coventry University and the University of South Wales, there was even an interview with a real live student (often notable by their absence from the list of speakers at such events), which was conducted by Maddalaine Ansell, the University Alliance’s newish Chief Executive. More...

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5 août 2015

Models of Excellence: Student success starts early

By Matt Zalaznick. Today’s progressive student success initiatives start even before first semester classes convene. The colleges and universities honored in the second round of UB’s national Models of Excellence awards program have found that easing students’ transition from high school to higher ed increases the likelihood they will remain enrolled and graduate. More...

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5 août 2015

Ranking universities on excellent teaching will be better for everyone

By Roger King. The quality of teaching at universities has emerged as one of the key priorities for the new Conservative majority government. In a recent speech to Universities UK, Jo Johnson the new universities minister, said he wanted to see universities in England enhance teaching quality, bear down on grade inflation and achieve parity of esteem between teaching and research. More...

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3 août 2015

Distinctive Excellence in Polytechnic Universities

By Thomas Carey. My prior post in this Higher Ed Beta column took a look backwards look at the historical development of Polytechnic Universities and a look forward to some new ways for strategically repositioning our evolving polytechnic universities as a special kind of university with their own distinctive excellence. I suggested that the direction of most interest for an evolving polytechnic university was to become ‘more poly’ rather than ‘more technic’. Read more...

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31 juillet 2015

In defence of the Research Excellence Framework

By James Wilsdon. An as-yet-unannounced review of Business, Innovation and Skills-funded bodies raises a potential threat to the future of research funding. We need an intelligent, evidence-informed debate about the costs and benefits of assessment. More...

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