Le prix Soyons clairs, sera remis pour la première fois, mardi 12 juillet, aux administrations qui améliorent la qualité des écrits d’information administrative. Ce prix stimule et récompense les initiatives des services publics pour informer les usagers dans un langage compréhensible par tous. Soyons clairs est décerné pour la première année en 2016 par le Défenseur des droits et le Conseil d’orientation de l’édition publique et de l’information administrative (COEPIA), avec le soutien du secrétariat général pour la modernisation de l’action publique (SGMAP). Voir l'article...
Uniplaces Scholarship 2016 awards 15 students
The Uniplaces Scholarship is the only global programme to support international youth and student mobility by sponsoring accommodation. In 2015, the Scholarship funded 15 students to go study in places like Singapore, New York and Sydney. The previous edition of the Scholarship had over 9000 participants, from over 900 cities. More...
Historian snubs $1 million Israeli academic prize
By Jack Grove. Feminist historian Catherine Hall will not accept her share of a lucrative award, calling her move an ‘independent political choice’. More...
Billionaire launches world's biggest education prize
A Chinese internet billionaire launched the world's biggest education prize worth more than £5 million (US$7.3 million) in Hong Kong last week, writes Richard Vaughan for TES. Read more...
Nobel laureates meet students at Pyongyang universities
A group of Nobel laureates visited sanctions-bound North Korea despite objections from South Korea, saying they wanted to extend an olive branch by bringing non-political, academic diplomacy to the isolated nuclear-armed state, reports Reuters. Read more...
We Don't Need a 'Revolution' to Improve Teaching
By John Warner. Nobel Prize winning physicist and Stanford professor Carl Wieman is a proponent of active learning in the college classroom and believes it could "revolutionize" learning. Read more...
Remise du prix de la Vocation Internationale par les Conseillers du Commerce Extérieur de la France (CCEF)
M. Alain BENTEJAC, Président du Comité National des CCEF, et M. Luc LESENECAL, Président du Comité Normand des CCEF, ont remis lundi 9 mai à Deauville le Prix de la Vocation Internationale remporté pour cette 11ème édition par des étudiants en Master 2 « Développement international de la PME/PMI » de l’IAE de Caen. Voir l'article...
University innovators among six winners of inaugural Governor General Innovation Awards
The inaugural winners of the Governor General’s Innovation Awards include outstanding examples of the world-leading research and discovery taking place at Canada’s universities. Created by His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston, Governor General of Canada, the awards honour six remarkable Canadian individuals, teams and organizations who, through their imagination and ingenuity, contribute to our country’s success and inspire future generations of innovators. More...
INTO-UEA and Kings win Queen’s Enterprise award
By Amy Baker. Two well known private education companies focusing on teaching international students and preparing them for further studies in the UK have been honoured in the UK’s annual Queen’s Award for Enterprise. More...
Nottingham Trent scoops Whatuni’s int’l award
By Natalie Marsh. Nottingham Trent University scooped the International prize at Hotcourses Whatuni Student Choice Awards last night, where thousands of student satisfaction reviews decide the winners. More...