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By Jeannie Rea (NTEU National Office). If you haven't registered for the NTEU General Staff Conference in Adelaide, you've got until Friday: http://www.nteu.org.au/events/general_staff_conference_2013/registrationWe would particularly like to see more general and professional staff from university libraries, IT, technical, equity and diversity and teaching and learning centres register.
This conference will expand the conversation and research on the contribution that general staff make to higher education.

Fourth meeting of the Ad-hoc WG on the Revision of the ECTS Users’ Guide was held on 16 October 2013 in Brussels, Belgium. The meeting was chaired by the European Commission and hosted 12 participants.
The main task of the members of the Ad-hoc WG was to discuss the first draft of the ECTS Users’ Guide as well as make amendments.
Next meeting of the Ad-hoc WG will be held in winter 2014.

Today’s post is by Mi Ah Schoyen of NOVA Norwegian Social Research and Bjorn Hvinden  Professor and Head of Research at NOVA and the University of Tromso, and director of the Nordic Centre of Excellence ‘Reassessing the Nordic Welfare Model’ (REASSESS). It is published in collaboration with Bertelsmann Stiftung’s Sustainable Governance Indicators (SGI) Network.
When it comes to balancing the needs of current and future generations, the Nordic welfare states have done fairly well: reforms of the pension system, low child poverty levels and public debt, and work-friendly family policies. Yet, environmental considerations remain neglected – in the Nordic countries and elsewhere in the OECD. More...

Mobility partnerships enable the EU, its Member States, and non-EU countries cooperate more effectively on the issues of migration.
A conference organised by the ETF in Tbilisi on 4 and 5 November, will provide an opportunity to learn from the experience of Armenia, Georgia and Moldova in implementing EU mobility partnerships, especially in the area of skills and migration.
The event will be held under the auspices of the Lithuanian Presidency of the EU Council and in cooperation with the Targeted Initiative Georgia. The participants will look at the skills dimension of the mobility partnerships as part of the EU framework of the Global Approach to Migration and Mobility.
The recent ETF surveys of migration and skills in Armenia, Georgia and Morocco provided evidence on the skill profiles of migrants and how skills are underutilised abroad and upon return. It also indicated the need for specific policy measures to support migrants for more efficient job and skills-matching process.
Practical information about the conference

• Title of the conference: Skills dimension of the EU’s Global Approach to Migration and Mobility
• Date: 4-5 November 2013
• Place: Radisson Blu Iveria Hotel, Rose Revolution Square 1, Tbilisi, Georgia