By . Survey ranks universities on their reputation among employers.
The University of Oxford has topped an annual global ranking measuring universities performance on graduate employability. Oxford, which has climbed three places in this year’s Global Employability University Survey, displaced Harvard University at the top of the ranking, while the University of Cambridge (in third), Stanford University (fourth) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (fifth) completed the top five.
The list is compiled by French human resources consulting group Emerging Associates along with Trendence, a German polling and research institute. It is based on responses from 2,700 recruiters in 20 countries, who were asked which of their local universities produced the best graduates. There are 14 UK universities in the top 150, with University College London (UCL) (13th) and the University of Edinburgh (15th) joining the Oxbridge pair in the top 20. More...
EAEA presents non-formal and informal language learning practices
By Francesca Operti. The latest Civil Society Platform on Multilingualism meeting updated articipants about the current policy priorities of European Commission (EC) Directorate-General for Education and Culture (DG EAC) and their impact in the area of multilingualism. Furthermore it allowed the platform members to present to the EC representatives the outcomes of the working groups created in the previous meeting of the Platform.
Being part of the group on non-formal and informal language learning, EAEA had the chance to illustrate to the participants how these ways of learning might overcome the traditional obstacles to adult language learning: lack of time and motivation, cost-related constraints and cultural and infrastructural barriers.
The Platform met on Friday, 11th October 2013 in Brussels.
Policy updates
Participants learnt how the last EC initiatives such as Opening up Education and Rethinking education could impact on language learning in Europe. Some words were spent on the OECD skills survey results (PIAAC), presented by the EC and the OCED on the 8th October 2013.
"The PIAAC results are telling us that this is the momentum for the adult education sector", Ana Carla Pereira, Head of Multilingualism Unit from DG EAC pointed out. Important place in the discussion was given to the new programme for education, youth,culture and sport - ERASMUS+. Civil society representatives exchanged their concerns on the information available so far which were noted down by the EC representatives. Afterwards, working groups were invited to share the work done in the previous months on the topic established in the previous meeting of the Platform. More...
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