The next ACA European Policy Seminar is getting closer and ACA is looking forward to welcoming you on 9 October in Brussels to discuss Liberal Arts (and Sciences) education in Europe. The seminar will provide an introduction into the philosophy and the main features of Liberal Arts education, amongst them the college system, undergraduate research and (small) size. It will also present and analyse varied examples of successful Liberal Arts programmes in different European countries. If you are interested and you haven’t registered yet, there is still time to do it here.

Are you still in the dark about Liberal Arts and Sciences education? Before joining us at the seminar, you can start to satisfy your curiosity by taking a look at the Bernd Wächter Series.  Throughout three short video episodes, ACA Director Bernd Wächter will enlighten you on Liberal Arts education: watch the Bernd Wächter Series here!

The 2015 LEADHER competition was launched in July this year. Only three weeks left to send in your application form!
The deadline for this competition is October 12, 2014. Guidelines and Application form are available from here.
IMPORTANT! - Please note that this year, for reporting reasons imposed by the Donor Agency, 2015 LEADHER projects and all related reporting must be completed by 15 June 2015 at the latest (this means that the 2 learning visits must be completed and the activity and financial reports received at IAU by this deadline). If the deadline is not respected, IAU will not be able to pay the second half of the grant. More...

Along with Palgrave Macmillan, the publishers of Higher Education Policy (HEP), the Association's quarterly research journal, IAU is pleased to announce that the Thomson-Reuters Journal Citation Report has just been released for 2013, increasing the journal's Impact Factor to 0.415 from 0.185 for 2012. This now places HEP in 159th place out of 219 journals. For more information on the journal, please visit the HEP homepage. More...

Meiji University, Japan, wins one of the 2014-2023 "Top Global School" Projects Awards, and the Vice President, International and her colleagues are convinced that without the ISAS process, (IAU’s Internationalization Strategies Advisory Service), the institution could not have achieved this success. The ISAS process involved a small panel of international and Japanese experts who worked with the leadership and other stakeholders from the University for nearly 8 months to assess and strengthen the institutional strategy for internationalization.
IAU congratulates Meiji University and is pleased to note that, as with Hokkaido University, the first Japanese institution to call on the IAU’s ISAS in 2010, the University will now have additional resources to carry out its internationalization plans. More...

HEFCE has received the results of the most recent Efficiency Measurement Model survey, through which universities report on the efficiencies achieved through improved procurement methods.
The survey, coordinated by the British Universities Finance Directors Group and the North Western Universities Purchasing Consortium, received 94 responses from English institutions for 2012-13, an increase of over 20 per cent on the previous year. More...

HEFCE has published new data exploring the link between economic growth and higher education provision. The interactive data toolkit identifies ‘cold spots’ in higher education provision and participation across England.
For the first time, HEFCE has brought school and higher education data together with employment and mobility data to give a comprehensive and detailed picture of higher education participation and provision, employment and graduate mobility. More...

These maps are a toolkit to explore a wide selection of higher education and economic data. Interactive and detailed, they can be focused on local areas and topics of particular interest.