Von Bernd Kramer. Schlechte Nachrichten für Studenten: Eine jährliche, automatische Bafög-Erhöhung lehnt Bildungsministerin Johanna Wanka ab. Die Förderung der Spitzenforschung ist ihr wichtiger. Mehr...
What Is Teaching Excellence?
By Alan Hughes. College and university faculty are expected to be excellent teachers. In public, college leaders emphasize to potential students and their parents that at their institution, teaching matters above all else. Colleges seem to unabashedly promote that the teaching done by their faculty is markedly better than at peer institutions -- or that the opportunities for close working relationships between students and faculty are unique to their campus. Read more...
Les Idex, instruments d’un dirigisme borné
USA: Schüler bekommt Zusage für alle acht Elite-Unis
In der exklusiven Ivy League gibt es genau acht Elite-Hochschulen - und alle haben einen 17-Jährigen angenommen. Der Schüler hat sich bereits entschieden, an welche Traum-Uni er gehen wird. Mehr...
America’s UnExcellence Initiatives
By Philip G. Altbach. The world is focused on improving their top universities in order to be more competitive in the global knowledge economy and to raise their numbers in the higher education rankings. Jamil Salmi counted at least 36 “excellence initiatives” around the world that have pumped billions of dollars into the top universities in these countries — with resulting improvements in quality, research productivity, and emerging improvements un the rankings of these universities. Even in cash-strapped Russia, the “5-100” initiative is providing 70 million into each of 15 selected universities to help them improve and compete globally. Read more...
Création de l'IAVFF pour un enseignement et une recherche d'excellence
La loi d'avenir pour l'agriculture, l'agroalimentaire et la forêt a réaffirmé l'importance de l'enseignement technique et supérieur et de la recherche agricole pour la réussite de nos secteurs agricole, agroalimentaire vétérinaire et forestier. Pour disposer d'un enseignement à la pointe de la recherche, Stéphane Le Foll ainsi que le Parlement ont souhaité créer une structure permettant une synergie étroite entre l'enseignement supérieur et la recherche agronomique, vétérinaire, forestière et de paysage.
L'Institut agronomique, vétérinaire et forestier de France dont le décret relatif à l'organisation et au fonctionnement a été publié ce jour au Journal Officiel devient désormais une réalité.
L'Institut agronomique, vétérinaire et forestier de France (I.A.V.F.F.) fédère les 12 établissements publics d'enseignement supérieur agronomique, vétérinaire et de paysage relevant du ministère, ainsi que l'INRA et l'IRSTEA, en préservant leur autonomie de gestion et leurs implantations territoriales. D'autres établissements ont d'ores et déjà fait part de leur souhait de se joindre à cette dynamique. Voir l'article...
Models of Excellence: Connecting the dots for student success
By Melissa Ezarik. The idea of student success has evolved in higher ed, from a concept focused mainly on academic success and graduation rates to one addressing a host of other goals. Campus administrators are working to help students immerse themselves successfully in campus life, manage finances, attain life skills, pursue first jobs and launch fulfilling careers. And officials are doing it all by creating connections across departments, as well as among students. More...
Research excellence in numbers
By Alex Herbert. The results are out. They will be pored over by thousands of academics, administrators, journalists, policy makers, critics and friends of the REF. They will be interpreted in many ways and used for purposes beyond the original intentions of the four funding bodies that steer and sponsor the exercise. More...
Time for REFlection
By Steven Hill. Next week the wait will be over, the results of the Research Excellence Framework (REF) will be released to the world. In the run up to the big announcement it isn’t surprising that there is plenty of commentary about the REF, its perceived strengths and weaknesses, its costs and benefits, the funding outcomes, and of course the future of and planning for the next exercise. More...
Continental platform to accelerate science excellence
By Munyaradzi Makoni. The Alliance for Accelerating Excellence in Science in Africa, or AESA, has started operations and there are plans to run funding grants before the end of the year. AESA is a pan-African platform to source funding for science and health research, created by the African Academy of Sciences and the New Partnership for Africa's Development agency. Read more...