L'agence 2e2f participe cette année encore aux RUE. Elle animera deux ateliers et disposera d'un stand.
Initiées par AEF en juin 2008 sous forme d'un colloque, les RUE se tiennent désormais au Palais des Congrès de Paris, signe des attentes fortes de tous ceux qui sont attachés au développement de la relation entre l'enseignement supérieur, la recherche et les entreprises.
Cette 6ème édition mettra en avant quatre temps forts pour mieux structurer l'animation (Formation/Insertion, R&D Innovation, Communautés pros et International), sept villages pour mieux identifier les publics (Village des PME, Village des Fédérations professionnelles, Village R&D, Village Numérique, Village Attractivité des campus et Village International, Village économie sociale et solidaire), un forum de recrutement masters et doctorants, tels sont les trois axes des RUE 2013 qui jouent un rôle majeur en faveur du rapprochement entre les milieux académiques et les milieux économiques.
Site des RUE 2013.

Just released - World Higher Education Database (WHED) 2013
The Association is pleased to announce that the WHED 2013 CD-ROM has just been released. With information on over 17,000 university-level institutions as well as information on the education systems of over 180 countries, this most comprehensive information tool on higher education worldwide is now available for purchase from Palgrave Macmillan, UK, publishers of the Association's reference publications.
All IAU Members in good-standing will shortly be receiving their complimentary copy of the CD-ROM, and Members wishing to purchase supplementary copies are entitled to a 50% discount; simply state you are an IAU Member when ordering.
For more information and ordering, please visit Palgrave Macmillan's website, or send an email to Palgrave Macmillan.

By René Prioux, former Head of Translation, OECD. Translators are at the forefront of global communications and knowledge. Yet their work has not always been helped by the information revolution. Here are the challenges.
If you are reading this article in English, you should bear in mind that it was originally drafted in French. But such is the art of the translator, to do their job in such a masterly yet invisible way, that you would probably never have noticed had I not pointed it out. Yet translation is a highly-skilled and difficult job. Has the work of the translator been improved by innovations in technology in recent years?
When the OECD was established just over 50 years ago, information and communication technologies were in their infancy. The term “computer” had been coined just a few years earlier and neither the Internet nor microprocessors had been invented. And televisions were just beginning to appear in people’s living rooms. Read more...

Massimiliano Mascherini's presentation on Young people and NEETs in Europe Policy challenges for those not in employment, education or training.
Background
The European Youth Forum and Eurofound are organising a joint event in the European Parliament on the issue of Youth Disengagement in the context of youth unemployment. This seminar, hosted by the European Parliament Intergroup on Youth, will analyse Eurofound's report on NEETs: Young people not in employment, education or training. The European Youth Forum and youth organisations have been highlighting for years that unemployment when young not only hinders personal development and lowers life chances, exposing youth to poverty and social exclusion, but also prevents young Europeans from contributing to the overall development of their local community, their country and Europe as a whole.
This joint event will be the first broader public discussion on Eurofound's report on NEETs. The discussion will address youth unemployment policy responses, considering in particular the release of the Youth Employment Package and the European Commission proposal for a Council Recommendation on Youth Guarantees. The event is targeted at policy makers, government representatives, experts and academics, social partners, and youth organisations. A programme is available.
Eurofound contribution
Research Manager Massimiliano Mascherini will make a presentation on Young people and NEETs in Europe Policy challenges for those not in employment, education or training.

The government of the Islamic Republic of Iran agrees with the United Nations Development Assistance Framework that education is an essential element in development and reducing poverty.
More specifically, the Iranian government has committed to embedding lifelong learning into the national education policy, and to this end invoked a high-level workshop on lifelong learning, the first of its kind to be held in Iran.
The National Training Workshop on Innovative Concepts and Systems of Lifelong Learning was held from 11 to 14 February 2013, organised by the Ministry of Education of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Iranian National Commission for UNESCO, and the UNESCO Tehran Cluster Office in Tehran. The Iranian Ministry of Education looked to UIL, global centre of excellence for lifelong learning, for technical and conceptual assistance in preparing and holding the workshop.
The Workshop addressed both the Iranian context and an international perspective on lifelong learning, the latter which was implemented by a UIL team of experts. UIL’s contribution took a good practice approach, presenting a series of examples of successful lifelong learning policies in Asian and European countries. The UIL team comprised Jin Yang, Senior Programme Specialist and Rika Yorozu, Programme Specialist, along with two external consultants (Jørn Skovsgaard, Senior Adviser, Ministry of Children and Education of Denmark; and Professor Yadollah Mehralizadeh, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Iran). The Iranian contribution included presentations on policies and perspectives along with the Iranian educational, socio-economic and cultural context by leading researchers in Iran.
Over 40 representatives from ten ministries and institutions with responsibilities for human resource development exchanged experiences and generated new ideas to develop a lifelong learning society in Iran during the Workshop. The initial output of the proceedings was a proposal to set up a national committee on lifelong learning under the Iranian National Commission for UNESCO and an expert task force to develop a national policy framework on lifelong learning, along with a pledge from individual participants to (1) file a short report on the workshop to each respective minister/director; (2) write articles on lifelong learning and publish them in newspapers and journals in Iran; (3) organise internal workshops for colleagues in the ministries; (4) conduct empirical need assessment of learners; and (5) introduce several changes in policies to promote lifelong learning for all.
The Islamic Republic of Iran is well on track as regards the 2015 Education for All goals and education-related Millennium Development Goals. Fully integrating lifelong learning for all into the Iranian education and development system will significantly contribute to building coherent and holistic strategies beyond 2015. UIL will continue to provide technical support to the Islamic Republic of Iran with a focus on developing a national policy framework for implementing lifelong learning for all.

Outcomes of the Final Event of the ULAB
The Final Conference was entitled “Bridging Research and Innovation: The Role of European Universities”
Last 11 December 2012 took place in Brussels the Final Conference of the European Laboratory for modeling the technical research University of tomorrow (ULAB Project). The Project is an innovative think-tank created by five leading Technical and Research-intensive European Universities: Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain), Politecnico di Torino (Italy), Technische Universität München (Germany), University of Oxford (UK), Paris Institute of Technology (France).
The event gathered representatives from the European Commission, the European University Association (EUA), the European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT), and the ULAB partner institutions.
For more information and presentations, follow this link.

BIGGS, John & TANG, Catherine. Teaching for Quality Learning at University. 2011. Maidenhead, UK: Open University Press
This is the fourth edition of this publication, which deals on themes of constructive alignment used in implementing outcomes-based education. In the shape of a “how to” manual, each chapter suggests tasks to implement constructive alignment in teaching practices of interested teachers, staff developers or administrators.
Furthermore, this edition focuses on the implementation of constructive alignment in the specific cases of Australia, Hong Kong, Ireland and Malaysia, and also evaluates in one of its sections how constructive alignment is used worldwide for quality teaching and assessment.
For more information, follow this link.

LLORENS, Faraón (coord.). Tendencias Universidad. Nº 1. En pos de la educación activa. 2013. Madrid: Cátedra UNESCO de Gestión y Política Universitaria
This report is the first issue of a new series of publications by the UNESCO Chair in Higher Education Management and Policy (Madrid). These publications will be compendia of short monographic reports, which will offer thoughts on important issues in Spanish higher education that are linked to the activity of the Chair.
This first report is the outcome of the biennial seminar “En pos de la educación activa”, and it makes a summary of the four different conferences organized by the Chair along the years 2011 and 2012.
For more information, follow this link.

EAEA has started a new project called ARALE for "Awareness Raising for Adult Learning and Education."
ARALE aims to add the visibility of adult education in Europe.
More information: Dedicated ARALE website.