By Paul Jump. A commitment by government to consult over a long-term plan for science capital investment has been welcomed by the Lords Science and Technology Committee. The pledge is made in the government’s response to the committee’s report on scientific infrastructure, which was published in November 2013. More...
By Paul Jump. Academic publishers have launched their scheme to allow free access to research journals at public libraries.
The proposal was developed during the deliberations of the so-called Finch Group of publishers, libraries, universities and learned societies, which was commissioned by the UK government to thrash out a consensus on how to move to full open access in the UK. More...
A pilot workplace-based mentoring scheme, The Learner Voice, launched in February 2013 by the Construction Industry Council (CIC) North-West Regional Committee in partnership with the Higher Education Academy (HEA) and the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB), has won the Merit award in the CIOB International Innovation & Research Awards 2013, in the Innovation in Education and Training Award category. More...
Following on from last year’s successful CLL programme, the HEA will be running a new series of one-day CPD workshops which begin on 7 March.
Changing the Learning Landscape (CLL) aims to bring about changes in approaches to technology in learning and teaching within higher education institutions.
As part of CLL, the HEA is running a number of one-day workshops to provide a practical introduction to the use of learning technologies for staff working in higher education.
This year’s programme of events will look at the impact of online learning on learning and teaching in HE and be presented by expert speakers. Topics covered will include:
The potential impacts of CLL will be on individual teaching practices and students’ learning, on institutional and systemic practice, and on collaboration and partnership across and between universities and colleges.
CLL is a Higher Education Funding Council (HEFCE) funded project being run collaboratively between Jisc, the National Union of Students (NUS), the Association for Learning Technology (ALT), the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education and the HEA.
For further information and to book please visit: http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/cll. More...
EURASHE's Community of Practice Workshop on Learning Outcomes within Professional Higher Education Context, Prague, Czech Republic (13 December 2013)
The European Association of Institutions in Higher Education (EURASHE) will organise a Community of Practice Workshop on Learning Outcomes within a Professional Higher Education Context on 13 December 2013 in Prague, Czech Republic.
The event is organised jointly with the Czech Association of Schools of Professional Higher Education (CASPHE) and the College of Nursing (VSZ).
Please visit the event website for more details on the programme and registration.
Universities UK (UUK) has drawn attention to ongoing negotiations regarding the Data Protection Regulation (DPR) which it stresses “represents a major reform of the EU legal framework on the protection of personal data”.
As a regulation, the DPR covers the use of personal data in research and UUK notes that the DPR is rapidly going through the co-decision process. The European Parliament has already adopted its amendments and a Council of the EU position is expected for 6 December, it added.
A spokesperson for the International Unit, Universities UK, explained that it and other UK stakeholders have been voicing their concerns over the amendments consistently, and added that European Parliament’s amendments that have now been adopted could have serious implications for research using personal data, in particular in the area of health.
UUK has been gathering detailed briefing material on the topic for national university associations interested in more information, and invites them to take up this issue in their own national context before the Council of the EU takes its position.
Please contact Lisa Bungeroth at the International Unit, Universities UK, on lisa.bungeroth@international.ac.uk for further information and briefing material.
The Conference of the Rectors of the Spanish Universities (CRUE) has elected a new president. Prof. Manuel José López Pérez, Rector of the University of Zaragoza, succeeds Prof. Adelaida de la Calle, Rector of Málaga University, as President of CRUE.
For more information (in Spanish), please see the CRUE press release.
The Croatian Rectors’ Conference (CRC) has also recently announced that Prof. Alfio Barbieri, Rector of the Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, is from October 2013 the new President of the CRC.
For more information (in Croatian), please view this website.
The 23rd International Conference for Higher Education on the theme of “Globalisation and Integration” will take place in Tel Aviv, Israel, from 16 to 18 March 2014.
The organisers note that the various lectures will aim to “explore derivatives of globalisation and internationalisation, rankings and quality audits, technology impact, academia-government-labour market interface, privatisation and accessibility issues, the role of academia in the quest for peace, acedemia's role in minorities integration and empowerment”.
A call for papers has also been published on the event website. Submissions for abstracts are open until 1 January 2014.
For more information and to register, visit the event website.
International Colloquium on Socio-Cultural, Economic Issues and Prospects in Latin America: Relations with Lebanon and the Middle East, Jounieh, Lebanon (15-16 May 2014)
The Holy Spirit University of Kaslik (USEK) is organising an International Colloquium on “Socio-Cultural, Economic Issues and Prospects in Latin America: Relations with Lebanon and the Middle East”.
This colloquium, hosted by the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities, and the Latin American Studies and Cultures Center, will be held on 15 and 16 May 2014 at USEK Main Campus.
For more information on the conference objectives and topics that will be covered or to register, please visit the event website.
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has published a new report “Commercialising Public Research: New Trends and Strategies”.
The report seeks to provide a comprehensive “review of government and institutional level policies aimed at enhancing the transfer and exploitation of public research results” and to compare “performance in OECD countries, universities and public research institutions using both traditional and new indicators”.
The full publication is available for download here.
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