By John Drennan and Claire Mc Cormack. Top Irish lecturers and researchers are still among the highest paid in the world, despite alarming drop in university standards and six years of austerity budgets.
Irish universities may be slipping out of the top world rankings, but our college dons are still amongst the best paid professors in the world. More...

The European Master’s Programme in Lifelong Learning: Policy and Management (MA LLL) is one of the European Union’s flagship Erasmus Mundus programmes. This truly international programme, with students from over 40 countries worldwide, operates through a network of four universities in Bilbao, Copenhagen, London and Melbourne. More...

On 26 November, the European Commission (EC) presented details of a new “Investment Plan” which it said aimed to get “Europe growing again and get more people back to work”. Meanwhile, earlier in November the EC released the latest (2014) edition of its annual Education and Training Monitor. More...

La dernière réunion des « Correspondants Europe » des Universités s’est tenue à Bruxelles les mardi 25 et mercredi 26 novembre  2014.
Vous trouverez ci-après les présentations des différents intervenants du mercredi 26 novembre. Voir l'article...

La CPU rappelle au gouvernement Français qu’il est important que l’Etat honore ses engagements financiers quant aux programmes H2020 et Erasmus +.
La CPU est consciente des enjeux des négociations actuelles entre les Etats membres, le Parlement Européen et la Commission Européenne, sur les suites à donner à l’accord cadre financier pluriannuel de l’UE (CPF). Elle se réjouit de la position du Parlement Européen qui souhaite un engagement des crédits de paiements conformes aux crédits d’engagements par les Etats membres. Voir l'article...

Funded by HEFCE and Innovate UK, the £3.2 million ‘ICURe’ project aims to ‘bridge the valley of death’ identified by the House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee. The project will help address issues raised in the Government’s response to the Committee’s inquiry last year, including the importance of innovation by universities in managing intellectual property and of attention to the availability of ‘proof of concept’ funding. More...

The Education and Training Monitor charts the evolution of education and training systems across Europe by providing a picture of each country's progress. More...