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2 mai 2015

Council for Doctoral Education (CDE) Annual Meeting – registration open

The 8th EUA-CDE Annual Meeting, entitled ‘The future of Doctoral Education – where do we go from here’ will take place on 18-19 June at the Technische Universität München/TUM Graduate School, Munich, Germany.
The meeting is the largest gathering of all stakeholders in the field of doctoral education in Europe and provides a platform for open discussions on the challenges and opportunities facing the sector across Europe and beyond.
Registration for the event is open until 5 June. To register, view the programme and find out more, please see the event page. More...

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2 mai 2015

Research Ethics in Doctoral Education

As part of the project The Shape of Things to Come, the EUA Council for Doctoral Education (EUA-CDE) held a focus group meeting on research ethics in doctoral education on 20 March hosted by the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Research ethics will also be a major theme of the EUA-CDE Annual Meeting at the Technische Universität München in Munich, Germany on 18-19 June. Registration for the event and further information can be found here.
For information on the project The Shape of Things to Come click here. More...

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2 mai 2015

Reminder: EQAF 2016 call for host

The organisers of the European Quality Assurance Forum (EQAF) are looking for a university to host the 11th EQAF, which is scheduled to take place in November 2016. We would like to invite EUA member universities that match the criteria to consider hosting the event. More...

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2 mai 2015

Ukraine gains access to Horizon 2020

Ukraine has signed an agreement with the EU that will allow it to participate in Horizon 2020, giving the country’s researchers, innovators and businesses the chance to benefit from the EU’s €80 billion research programme.
The Agreement for the Association of Ukraine to Horizon 2020, signed by Carlos Moedas at a ceremony in Kiev last month, will see the country renew its membership of the EU research community. More...

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2 mai 2015

Higher education is too important to be left to the market

By Courtney Sloane (NTEU National Office). onight’s ABC Four Corners report, Degrees of Deception, together with last week’s NSW ICAC report, Learning the Hard Way, highlight the inherent risks of leaving higher education to the free market, according to the National Tertiary Education Union.
“Both Four Corners and ICAC have highlighted the massive risks our public universities face when they become too reliant on international student fee income to sustain their financial viability,” said Jeanie Rea, NTEU National President.
“Both reports point to the dangers and increased costs associated with enrolling students to add to university coffers, rather than honest regard for the students’ preparedness, including language proficiency, to be able to successfully complete the qualification.
“The reports highlight the tensions between maintaining academic standards and commercial interests that are inherently a consequence of the competition our public universities face in international student markets. More...

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2 mai 2015

UWA closes down local research while funding controversial Danish centre

By Courtney Sloane (NTEU National Office). The NTEU WA Division is extremely concerned at the announcement that the University of Western Australia has committed resources “in kind” to the establishment of the Australian Consensus Centre to join the $4m in funding provided by the Federal Government. This Centre, to be associated with and use the methodology of Dr. Bjorn Lomborg from Denmark (who is widely known for promoting a climate contrarian view), has not been funded via the competitive funding process. More...

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2 mai 2015

Deregulation, regulation, or...?

By Courtney Sloane (NTEU National Office). The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) is hosting a forum tomorrow night that will explore the impacts of deregulating the Australian higher education sector, and alternative visions for reform.
The forum will hear from Professor Glyn Davis, Vice Chancellor of the University of Melbourne, and Adam Bandt, Federal Member for Melbourne. Audience members will be invited to participate in the discussion.
NTEU National President, and chair of tomorrow’s forum, Jeannie Rea, said that it was important to fully explore all options before leaping straight into reform. More...

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2 mai 2015

Rank Delusions

By Jen T. Kwok (NTEU National Office). After its original publication in the Chronicle of Higher Education, this piece was recently republished on Professor John Quiggin's blog. We thank him for the opportunity to share it further.
Every year, U.S. News & World Report, Times Higher Education,and othersupdate university rankings. Reactions are paradoxical. On the one hand, university administrators and faculty members scan the lists for evidence of small movements up or down. On the other hand, everyone knows that the top 10, or 20, or 50 names will be much the same as they have always been. The Duke sociologist Kieran Healy points to a four-tier classification of leading universities made in 1911, and compares it to the most recent U.S. News ranking. Of the top 20 universities in the ranking today, 16 were in the top class in 1911, one (Notre Dame) was in the second class, and three (Duke, Rice, and Caltech) had not yet been established under their current names. More...

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2 mai 2015

Universities, Citizenship and Democracy

In preparation for the IAU Global Meeting of Associations 6, this issue - IAU Horizons, 21, 1 - offers reports on IAU priority areas, new projects and initiatives, especially LGEU, and upcoming events and conferences.
By Gilles Breton. Universities, Citizenship and Democracy
When listening to what is being said and reading what is being published, one comes to wonder if universities can be considered in terms other than, for example, the merchandizing (marketization) of higher education, the international rankings – 500 of 17,000 need we recall -, the contribution of universities to economic activity and to competitiveness, tuition fees and underfunding. If this type of discourse, with an economic and financial consonance, is hegemonic, fortunately, it is not unique. This is what rapidly comes to mind after reading the book entitled Reimagining Democratic Societies: a new era of personal and social responsibility.* Finally a puff of fresh air! Finally a work which demonstrates that if universities can obviously be considered as key economic players in the knowledge economy and in training the labour force, they can also contribute to the renovation and even the re-imagining of democracy in our societies. Download IAU Horizons, 21, 1.

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2 mai 2015

Rethinking Social Innovations in Practice- the Case of the DST/NRF SARChI Chair in Development Education

In preparation for the IAU Global Meeting of Associations 6, this issue - IAU Horizons, 21, 1 - offers reports on IAU priority areas, new projects and initiatives, especially LGEU, and upcoming events and conferences.
By Catherine A. Odora Hoppers. Rethinking Social Innovations in Practice- the Case of the DST/NRF SARChI Chair in Development Education
Since its inception, higher education in sub-Saharan Africa has made significant strides, but also faced major challenges in particular in knowledge production paradigms, and developing methodologies to rethink thinking itself. To some, the solution to the crisis lies in Africanisation as part of a radical visioning of the university. To others, the solution is in reform of existing institutions. The Chair combines both theories and takes it further. It sees beyond the regulatory rules, to the social, legal and ethical innovative reforms of the constitutive rules governing the university as offering the best way out of the current crisis. Download IAU Horizons, 21, 1.

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