IAU 2017 International Conference and Global Meeting of Associations (GMA) ended after a week of fruitful discussions on challenges relating to funding of higher education. 170 people coming from 45 countries took part in these events hosted by the University of Ghana in Accra. Plus...
The NTEU today welcomed the announcement by the Fair Work Ombudsman of plans to encourage international students to seek help over industrial issues as a first step in the right direction on addressing the chronic issues of abuse and exploitation of young student workers. More...
How can higher education support internationalisation and produce graduates prepared to solve the complex challenges of today's society? Challenges that include access and opportunity, cross-cultural skills development, diversity and inclusion, and a rapidly growing global population. International philanthropy teams offer higher education the network to influence sustainable and holistic internationalisation. More...
Accreditation and ranking have been, until recently, perceived as two separate areas in the sphere of evaluation of higher education, each serving a different purpose. This perception, however, is changing. Though the two still are very different and function separately, there are signs that the borders between accreditation and ranking are getting blurred. More...
Late next month (21 November, to be exact) we’ll be releasing the results PISA’s first-ever assessment of students’ ability to solve problems collaboratively. Why has PISA focused on this particular set of skills? Because in today’s increasingly interconnected world, people are often required to collaborate in order to achieve their objectives, both in the workplace and in their personal lives. Working with others is not as easy as it sounds. More...
Disadvantaged students don’t have as many resources at home as their advantaged peers so ideally schools would need to compensate by providing more support. However, often schools reinforce social disparities rather than moderate them. The latest PISA in Focus brief reveals that students in socio-economically disadvantaged schools are less exposed to learning environments and educational resources that matter most for science performance. More...
2017 will go down as a landmark year given the huge impact of hurricanes on the economic, social and ecological environments in the wider Caribbean. The decimation of several island territories, such as Dominica, Anguilla, Barbuda, St. Maarten, Turks and Caicos, US and British Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico have taken hundreds of lives and destroyed livelihoods in key sectors like tourism. Take the case of Dominica that had a direct hit from category 5 hurricane Maria on September 18, 2017. More...
Over 250 members of the EU, Latin American and Caribbean academic and scientific community convened in El Salvador at the University of El Salvador on 5-6 October, for the EU-CELAC Academic and Knowledge Summit, an event to feed structured input from representative associations and networks of both regions into the forthcoming EU- CELAC Heads of State Summit. More...
Under the topic, “Future-ready Universities and Graduates: Quality Education Beyond the Horizon" ARC6 addressed themes such as interdisciplinary education, lifelong learning, and access and inclusiveness. The plenary sessions at the Rectors’ Conference also explored the question of quality education, as well as how universities can engage in a dialogue with governments, the business sector, and society in general. More...
On 10-12 September 2017, EUA participated in the 11th Annual Strategic Leaders Global Summit on Graduate Education, a high-level global dialogue event held at the Alyeska Resort in Alaska and organised by the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS). The CGS represents universities and colleges engaged in graduate education and research in the United States. EUA has collaborated with the CGS for a number of years, notably in the framework of its Council for Doctoral Education (EUA-CDE). More...
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