The Education and Training Monitor 2015 puts the spotlight on education priorities most in need of public and private investment. Top of the list is inclusiveness, because of its potential to boost social cohesion and mobility between generations.
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An information session for European Commission staff, EU Member State representatives and stakeholders was held on 12 November 2015 in Brussels. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. What Happens If Hyperlinks Get Copyright Protection In Europe?
Lisa Brownlee, Forbes, 2015/11/18
I would like to think that the European Commission wouldn't be so short-sighted as to attempt to impose copyright restrictions on linking, but there have been precedents under the heading of 'ancillary copyright' and restrictions imposed on Google News based on this very principle. More...
The TEF seeks to raise standards and the replacement of HEFCE with the Office for Students is a big structural change. Yet, to understand the green paper fully, you need to recall that structures follow funding. More...
By Daniel Kontowski and Philip G. Altbach. The EU has almost 4,000 higher education institutions, 434 of them are now in Poland. With only 7% of EU population, we host 11% of the higher education institutions. There are fourteen types of HEIs; they report to different ministries; and only about a 100 are public. And yet, the quantity doesn’t translate into ranking-based quality. Read more...
A new European University Association report on trends in public funding for higher education systems across the continent finds diverging trends, with projected year-over-year increases in public funding for 10 of the university systems studied (the French-speaking community of Belgium, Hungary, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia and Sweden) and decreases in another 9 (Croatia, the Czech Republic, Flanders in Belgium, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Serbia, Spain and the United Kingdom). Read more...
Dutch universities are getting around changes in the rules on temporary contracts by offering lecturers a fixed contract for one lecture a week plus a short-term contract for the rest of their work, reports Dutch News. Read more...
The European Commission’s new Scientific Advice Mechanism, or SAM, was officially launched last week, with the announcement of the seven leading scientists who will form the first High Level Group of scientific advisors. Read more...
By Jan Petter Myklebust. After seven years, the European Research Council, or ERC, grant scheme has become a ‘gold standard’ for science in Europe, and the ‘jewel in the crown’ for 4,556 recipients in the Seventh Framework Programme, or FP7 (2007-13). Read more...
By Jon Henley. Since voting to introduce quotas for EU citizens, Switzerland has been cut off from academic funding and international talent. More...
By Simon Johnson. A Scottish Government commission recommends lowering grades to get more poor into university but finds little evidence scrapping tuition fees has helped. Read more...
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