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“Tonight we turn the page”, said Barack Obama during his annual speech on the State of the Union, delivered on 20 January. The announced White House policy agenda for 2015 marked indeed a shift in tone for higher education policy, including brand new proposals in the direction of a stronger federal role. However, other higher education reforms - such as the college ratings system (see ACA Newsletter Education Europe, Edition January 2015) were unmentioned in Obama’s speech. More...

The Federal Act on the Funding and Coordination of the Higher Education Sector (Higher Education Funding and Coordination, HEdA) has come into force on the 1st of January 2015. This act provides the basis for swissuniversities, the new Rectors’ Conference of the Swiss Universities.
swissuniversities was jointly founded in autumn 2012 by the academic universities, universities of applied sciences and universities of teacher education in Switzerland, paving the way for the merger of the rectors' conferences CRUS, KFH and COHEP. More...

In 2005 there were no more than 8 000 international students in Poland. Presently, after a decade, this number is over 40 000. The ambition of Polish universities is to have 100 000 international by 2020. Over 240 rectors, vice rectors and international officers representing 80 universities and 25 organizations supporting higher education came to the annual conference Foreign Students in Poland 2015 organized by Perspektywy Education Foundation and Rectors’ Conference (CRASP) and hosted by the Marie Curie-Sklodowski University in Lublin 22-23 January 2015. More...

A new project coordinated by EP Nuffic - on request of the Dutch Ministry of Higher Education - will work together with the ENIC-NARICs network, Ministries of Education and 23 other educational institutions from Belgium, Croatia, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain in order to gain experience at national and European level with the implementation of automatic recognition and recommendations. The project, callled ‘Focus on Institutional Automatic Recognition’ (FAIR), was awarded at the end of 2014 with a co-founding of the European Commission within the framework of the Erasmus + Key Activity 3 (Policy Experimentation ). Building on the previous work of the Pathfinder Group on Automatic Recognition, the new project team will attempt to determine the impact of automatic recognition by undertaking two assessments of recognition procedures based on predefined indicators – before and after having introduced elements of automatic recognition. More...

The OeAD-GmbH has successfully participated in a Europe wide tender process and will continue to be responsible for the professional and effective implementation of the APPEAR programme. Appear has been conceived, guided and financed by the Austrian Development Agency, the operational unit of the Austrian Development Cooperation (ADC) to implement a new strategy ‘Higher Education and Scientific Cooperation’ in support of Higher Education and Research for Development on an academic institutional level in the priority regions of the ADC. More...

In line with its 2020 strategy set-up in 2013, the DAAD has restructured its internal organisation. The changes came into effect on 1 January 2015. With the new structure, the DAAD will be in a better position to carry out its two core tasks more professionally and efficiently: first, providing scholarships to the best students, graduates, doctoral candidates and researchers, and second, promoting higher education partnerships and infrastructural programmes. More...

ACA is proud to announce that our latest study on English-Taught Programmes (ETPs) is now available online free of charge (as PDF). We also remind that hard copies are ready to be purchased by placing an order through the ACA Secretariat or directly through the Publisher - Lemmens. More...

This freshly started 2015 looks already promising with the many events planned by ACA. By wishing again a Happy New Year, we take the chance to present our annual programme of seminars and conferences, designed to feature the most relevant topics in internationalisation and higher education. More...

L’AIU est heureuse de publier les résultats de l’année qui vient de s’achever dans son rapport annuel 2014. L’année 2014 était de nouveau une année très active, remplie de projets et activités très stimulants. A titre d’exemple : l’AIU a lancé son nouveau portail WHED (www.whed.net); elle a publié son 4e Rapport d’enquête globale sur l’Internationalisation de l’enseignement supérieur ; l’AIU a pris part à de nombreux projets relatifs au développement durable, aux TICs, à l’internationalisation et l'Education pour Tous avec des Membres du monde entier. Le rapport inclus des informations sur de nombreuses autres activités ainsi que des informations sur les autres publications de l’AIU, son Conseil d’administration et le rapport financier. Nous remercions les Membres pour leur soutien tout au long de l’année et nous nous réjouissons de poursuivre ces coopérations !
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IAU is pleased to publish the achievements of the past year in the Annual Report 2014. It was yet another very busy year with many exciting projects and activities. To highlight a few: IAU launched the new IAU WHED Portal (www.whed.net); it published the 4th Global Survey on Internationalization of Higher Education; IAU participated in many projects with Members around the world in relation to Sustainable Development; ICTs, Internationalization, Education For All and more. The Report includes information about many other activities as well as information about the regular IAU publications, the Administrative Board and a financial report. We thank the Members for their support throughout the year and we look forward to our continued collaboration!
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