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US News (USN) has released data, analysed by Robert Morse and Diane Tolis, showing how efficiently colleges and universities use their financial resources. The methodology is to divide the total score in the America’s Best Colleges rankings by the money spent per student. Top of the list among national universities was Miami University in Ohio which spent $383.66 per student for each point on the best colleges rankings. More...

By Brian Keeley. Few people can have been very surprised when the IMF announced this week that it was lowering its growth projections for this year. It feels like that’s been the story of the recovery in much of the OECD – a succession of disappointments and dashed hopes. Today, seven years after the financial crisis, growth remains well below where it was pre-crisis and unemployment well above. More...

By Laurent Bossard. The attacks that took place in Paris on 7, 8 and 9 January are part of a global, complex, diffuse and multi-faceted threat of which the bloodiest zones of action are presently in the Middle East and Africa, including within the confines of the Maghreb and the Sahel. The emergence of Salafist Jihadism in this area dates back to the early 2000s. When the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) moved further south and jihadists arrived from Afghanistan and Pakistan following the events of 11 September 2001, terrorist activities quickly merged with the trafficking of weapons, drugs, cigarettes and human beings. More...

The Bavarian Research Alliance (BayFOR) in cooperation with the European Commission is organising the international networking conference on the topic, “Mobilizing Universities of Applied Sciences for Horizon 2020”.
It aims to bring together the expertise of European Universities of Applied Sciences and informing them on how they can fully benefit from the opportunities created by Horizon 2020. For more information about this event and for registration, please click here. More...

The School of Engineering of the University of Orléans is organising the 43rd Annual Conference of the European Society for Engineering Education. The theme of the conference this year is “Diversity in engineering education: facing new trends in engineering”.
The call for abstracts is now open and the deadline for submission is 2 February 2015. For further information, please visit the event website. More...