Today Research England have launched the second round of consultation on the Knowledge Exchange Framework (KEF). The aspiration for this third form of excellence framework (in addition to the longstanding Research Excellence Framework and the more recent Teaching Excellence Framework) was raised by Jo Johnson in October 2017 and forms part of the Industrial Strategy. More...
By Eric Stoller. Advance HE is a fairly new agency within the UK's higher education sector. Formed in March of 2018 via the merger of the Equality Challenge Unit, the Higher Education Academy and the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education, Advance HE “supports [UK] universities in putting institutional strategy into practice for the benefit of students, staff and society.” More...
L’année 2018 aura souvent entendu résonner les trompettes de l’excellence. Déjà, fin 2017, la nouvelle présidente du Conseil supérieur des programmes (CSP) avait dû sa nomination à son goût « de l’excellence pour tous ». Les réformes touchant le lycée, ou la charnière entre le lycée et les universités, « Parcoursup » – et qui viennent d’être violemment contestées par le mouvement lycéen de décembre – ont été initiées et conduites au nom de la recherche de l’excellence. Plus...
Le programme de bourses Eiffel est un outil développé par le Ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires étrangères afin de permettre aux établissements français d’enseignement supérieur d’attirer les meilleurs étudiants étrangers dans des formations diplômantes de niveau master et en doctorat. Plus...By Michael Feldstein. Before I move on to my next case study in academic institutions moving toward operational excellence at supporting student success, I want to revisit a section toward the end of my last post on the California Community Colleges Online Education Initiative (OEI). I was looking at the alignment that has to be achieved at various levels in the academic organization in order to encourage all the stakeholders to embrace this collective mission, with all the changes to their day-to-day work and even professional identities it would entail. More...
By Michael Feldstein. If you're a regular e-Literate reader, you know we have a macro thesis that the higher education sector is in the early stages of an evolution from having a philosophical commitment to student success toward having an operational commitment to student success. More...
By Christian Jowers. All too often, institutions of higher education invest in research at the expense of teaching excellence. Higher education institutions need to invest in promoting innovative teaching that will meet the needs of today’s diverse students and enable them to address the challenges of a rapidly changing world. More...By Gerhard Duda. The concept of ‘Distributed Excellence’ was developed in a discussion paper at the German and Polish rectors’ conferences in 2017. It has met with support from many other European rectors’ conferences. More...
Between 8-7 October 2018, the final event of TeachEx project took place in Jerusalem. The conference called ‘Higher Education Policy: European & Israeli Perspectives on Teacher Training Development’, consisted of a roundtable discussion and a series of final presentations about the outcomes of the project. More...
EUA joined more than a dozen other European associations representing universities to stress that the next Framework Programme for Research & Innovation, Horizon Europe, must deliver on its aim to bring scientific, economic and social impact, as well as strengthen the scientific and technological basis of the Union, and foster its competitiveness. More...
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