By Jan Petter Myklebust. European research networking has been strengthened with a decision on Thursday to expand the League of European Research Universities or LERU to 23 members – with the addition of the University of Copenhagen and Trinity College Dublin from 1 January next year – and the launch in Brussels on 21 November of the Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities. Read more...
By Brendan O'Malley. A European University Association or EUA board member has become the first rector to lose their job under new state of emergency decrees (675 and 676), which were issued at the end of October as part of the government’s ongoing response to the failed coup attempt on 15 July this year. Read more...
By Brendan O'Malley. The government should make an immediate commitment to exempt European Union scientists and researchers already working in the United Kingdom from wider potential immigration controls, and include measures to attract skilled researchers during the Brexit negotiations, Members of Parliament or MPs on the Science and Technology Committee have demanded. Read more...
This event would include some of the outcomes of the ongoing EFFECT project on teaching enhancement and also present preliminary results of a survey on the issue that EUA plan to conduct in early 2017. More...The College of tourism and management Konjic, Bosnia and Herzegovina, is organizing the 2nd International Conference of Bologna process ''Politics and education - opposing sides in the Balkans'' in the period from November 04-05 2016 in Ulcinj (The hotel corporation 'Ulcinjska rivijera') Montenegro. More...The 5th plenary meeting of the Steering Committee for Educational Policy and Practice (CDPPE) will take place at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, from 15 to 17 March 2016. More...Professional higher education in Europe: characteristics and challengesThe overarching framework of qualifications of the European Higher Education Area (The framework of qualifications for the European Higher Education Area - May 2005) sets the parameters within which the countries of the EHEA will develop their national qualifications frameworks. This means that national frameworks will have much in common, but not that they will be identical. Qualifications frameworks are intended to be an instrument that help learners as well as those who develop higher education programmes and the competent national authorities. They should help learners move within a given education system as well as between systems. Qualifications frameworks are therefore important in promoting mobility within education systems as well as internationally. More...In the last two decades, various instruments have been developed, adopted and implemented at the European, national, regional and institutional level aiming at facilitating fair recognition of foreign qualifications and/or study periods abroad. Those instruments are amongst others, the ENIC and NARIC networks, the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS), the Diploma Supplement (DS), the overarching and national qualifications frameworks (QFs), the European Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance of Higher Education (ESG), etc. More...The EUA Roadmap on Open Access to Research Publications focuses primarily on fostering structured dialogue among stakeholders; promoting and supporting the adoption of OA policies, infrastructures and initiatives by European universities; encouraging the development and establishment of advanced scientific recognition and research assessment systems; addressing intellectual property rights and copyright policies for various outputs; considering alternative and sustainable OA business models; promoting access, use and sharing of research publications and data, including text and data mining (TDM); and encouraging, supporting and eventually monitoring the establishment of comprehensive standards for institutional OA policies concerning research publications and teaching materials. More.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
