By Brendan O'Malley. Graduates from richer family backgrounds earn significantly more after graduation than their poorer counterparts, even after completing the same degrees from the same universities, according to new research. Read more...
By John Walshe. Ireland’s next Minister for Education and Skills will face a major political challenge in ensuring the sustainability of the country’s higher education system that is both under-funded and under pressure to take in more and more students. Read more...
By Yojana Sharma. The European Institute of Innovation and Technology or EIT, set up by the European Union to bring together academic research, science and business, is not as effective as it could be and is beset with management problems, according to a damning new report by the European Court of Auditors. Read more...
Le Conseil européen a récemment adopté une réforme visant à optimiser Eures, le réseau européen d’aide à la recherche d’emploi. Voir l'article...
L’écrivain et sémioticien Umberto Eco accordait en 2012 un entretien au quotidien italien La Stampa. “Erasmus est à peine mentionné dans les rubriques économiques des journaux. Pourtant ce dispositif a créé la première génération de jeunes Européens”, expliquait-il, n’hésitant pas à qualifier le programme d’échanges universitaires européen de véritable “révolution sexuelle”. Suite...
Par Michèle Ballerin. Face aux crises, économique ou migratoire, la seule réponse des dirigeants européens est le rétablissement des frontières nationales, s’alarme ce journaliste. Nul n’a plus profité de l’espace Schengen que la génération Erasmus : à elle de défendre ce fantastique espace de liberté. Suite...
Both ESN and European University Foundation as organisations active in the field of youth and Higher Education already being in the building. We’re looking to host: NGOs active in the field of youth and HE, Innovative (social) start-ups, representation offices in Brussels. More...Erasmus Student Network Spain is deeply saddened to inform about the traffic accident suffered by a bus in which exchange students and volunteers from the organisation were travelling. More...
A call for papers of opened on the following subtopics:
1. Labor market and dropout
2. Bureaucratisation of education
3. Brain drain and new technologies
4. Media as partners or opponents of the progress of education
5. How to get to competent staff in tourism
Participants are invited to submit an abstract for one of those subtopics. More...
In the first days of April, 120 students and 33 academic staff from Ukraine gathered in Kiev to discuss how to set up student societies and implement student led activities using the results of IMPRESS - a project co-funded by TEMPUS Programme. More...
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