The Portal.
The IAU WHED Portal (www.whed.net) is the International Association of Universities’ (IAU) latest reference tool on higher education systems, degrees and institutions around the world. Basic access allows all users to access the information contained in the portal, while an enhanced access (MyWHED) is offered to IAU Members. Enhanced access provides advanced search options, printing and extraction facilities.
Content
The portal contains information on the education systems and credentials in over 180 countries, as well as information on some 18,000 institutions around the world.
Data on Systems and Credentials Using information made available by the national competent bodies in each country, the portal presents data on the education system of each country as follows:
• the overall structure of pre-higher and higher education system;
• the different stages of study;
• the national bodies responsible for higher education;
• the admission requirements (including for foreign students);
• the quality assurance/recognition system;
• student life;
• education level and entrance requirements;
• the main credentials offered.
Data on Institutions
Entries are selected on the basis of the information made available by the national competent bodies in each country. Information is then collected from those degree-granting institutions offering at least a post-graduate degree and/or a professional diploma in four years or more.
Institutional data comprises the following:
• general information;
• names of officers;
• list of academic divisions and study areas;
• degrees offered;
• student services and facilities;
• student and academic staff numbers. More...

L'AIU annonce le lancement officiel de son Portail WHED (Base de données mondiale sur l'enseignement supérieur), l'outil de référence sur les systèmes d'enseignement supérieur, les diplômes et les institutions du monde entier le plus complet.
Le Portail est ouvert à tous, cependant les membres de l'AIU bénéficient de fonctions avancées (recherche avancée, possibilité d'impression et d'extraction de données) via un login et l'accès à MyWHED.
Le Portail remplace le CD-ROM WHED, dont la dernière édition est parue en 2013.
Merci de consulter le portail et de nous envoyer vos commentaires.
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The IAU is pleased to announce the official launch of the World Higher Education Database (WHED) Portal, the most comprehensive reference tool on higher education systems, degrees and institutions worldwide.
The Portal is open to all users, but IAU Members benefit from advanced features (advanced search, printing and extraction facilities) through login in MyWHED.
The IAU WHED Portal replaces the WHED CD-ROM, which last edition was released in 2013.
Please visit the Portal and send us feedback.
For more information, click here or contact us at: centre@iau-aiu.net. More...

Heads of alternative providers subject to the student number control and any newly designated providers who have chosen to complete HEAPES14. More...

A new data centre, funded with £900,000 from HEFCE, will open up high-performance computing at a reasonable price to a consortium of universities and research institutes under a five-year agreement.
By joining forces, and with Jisc acting as broker, the six partners will get a better deal, giving them access to the first shared-services data centre for academic and medical research in the UK. The initial partners in this project are University College London, Kings College London, the Sanger Institute, the Francis Crick Institute, the London School of Economics and Political Science and Queen Mary University of London. More...

A further £100 million is being allocated across the UK to develop research facilities to encourage collaboration and support excellent research.
Following on from the success of the first three rounds of the UK Research Partnership Investment Fund (UKRPIF), HEFCE is inviting proposals from UK universities for large-scale projects (a minimum of £10 million from UKRPIF) that can attract twice as much funding from private sources (businesses, charities, individual donations). More...

HEFCE has today published its first register of higher education providers. An authoritative reference point for a wide range of users, the register describes the powers that providers regulated in England have, and the controls that apply to them.
It is launched alongside an updated ‘operating framework for higher education’, which explains the arrangements for regulating higher education providers in England. More..