By Andrew MacDonald. The National Tertiary Education Union supports the authors' call for: 'a coordinated national response, with leadership from the health minister, but involving all portfolios, to protect the health of all people in Australia from climate change.' More...
By Andrew MacDonald. The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) intends to argue that staff in research institutes should have the same award protections as their counterparts in universities, when the union appears before the Fair Work Commission’s (FWC) review of Modern Awards this week. More...
The Cybermetrics Lab is a research group belonging to the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), the largest public research body in Spain. It has produced the Webometrics Ranking of World Universities since 2004 and has announced the July edition of its ranking of universities by Google Scholar Citations. More...
The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) and the Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) have published a report listing 100 universities (including university systems) that were granted US utility patents in 2015. The information in the report, the fourth since 2014, was provided by the US Patent and Trademark Office. More...
The International Conference on Excellence Initiatives organized at the initiative and by invitation of the Russian Academic Excellence Project 5-100 took place June 30 - July 1, 2016 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The ITMO University played the role of the conference’s host, and Perspektywy was responsible for organization and functioning of the International Speakers’ Secretariat. More...
The workshop was opened by Bulgaria's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Education and Science, Meglena Kuneva, together with European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Youth and Sport, Tibor Navracsics, and the Vice-President of the European Investment Bank (EIB), Cristian Popa. Other speakers included representatives from the Commission, the EIB 
, the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), Bulgarian MEP Eva Paunova and local stakeholders. More...
A country of just 8.4 million people, Austria recently found its refugee camps, hostels and emergency shelters full to overflowing. To many the situation appeared impossible, but Austria’s academics demurred. Indeed, a most creative nationwide university-led initiative saw the light of day: the MORE project.
Interestingly, the participating universities area looking at the person’s needs holistically. MORE aims at providing a space for reflection to refugees where one can find out whether university studies are an option for the future. All universities offer non-bureaucratic ways to qualify students for individual courses. The lucky ones who partake in the programme, will be admitted as extra-curricular students, get a tuition fee waiver, are covered by the students’ insurance and get access to the university library. More...
By Tracey Burns. “I don’t actually have an attention problem. I just take the pill when I need to be sharp”. Legal drugs such as Ritalin, used for treating attention deficit disorder, are increasingly being repurposed by healthy students to feel sharper on exam day. More...
By Herman van de Werfhorst, Andrea Forster, Thijs Bol. A few years ago, Eric Hanushek gave a keynote lecture at a conference at the Amsterdam Centre for Inequality Studies. The talk was entitled "Is more vocational education the answer?" and spoke to debates in the United States about whether or not to strengthen the vocational education and training sector. The U.S. education system is much more “general” in nature than the German and Dutch education systems, which are more vocationally oriented. More...
Posted by . The recently published Second International Report for the Survey of Adults Skills, Skills Matter: Further Results from the Survey of Adult Skills, looks in detail at the extent to which proficiency in literacy, numeracy and problem solving in technology-rich environments matters for the well-being of individuals and nations. The answer that emerges is clear: proficiency is positively linked to a number of important economic and social outcomes. More...
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