Exploring the issues central to international education and global engagement. From the staff of ACE’s Center for Internationalization and Global Engagement (CIGE) and ACE member guest contributors. More...From the last edition of ACE’s Mapping Internationalization on U.S. Campuses, here’s a snapshot of on-campus support for international students. More...
Chaque année, à l’occasion du sommet du G7, l’Académie nationale du pays organisateur réunit les représentants des 7 Académies des sciences afin de préparer des "Déclarations communes" insistant sur des priorités scientifiques. Ces "déclarations communes" sont ensuite approuvées par chacune des Académies constituantes et sont finalement transmises au Président du pays organisateur du G7. Voir l'article...
Afin de consolider les liens de coopération entre les deux institutions, une délégation du CES de Côte d'Ivoire s'est rendu au CESE du 25 avril au 5 mai 2017. Voir l'article...
Un premier groupe, qui doit se rendre à Fukushima – « mais pas dans la zone contaminée » par l'accident nucléaire s'empresse de préciser la responsable – partira dès ce début de mois tandis que ceux qui prendront la direction de Takamatsu, ville jumelée avec Tours, embarqueront dans l'avion aux alentours du 12 avril. Par ailleurs, quatre étudiants blésois ont été nommés ambassadeurs de la ville de Tours, le 16 mars dernier. Voir l'article...
The Hungarian foreign ministry says it has summoned Canada’s Ambassador to Hungary Isabelle Poupart after she expressed concerns about the fate of a Budapest university and academic freedom as a whole, reports The Associated Press. More...By Hans de Wit. In recent contributions to University World News, I have written about the rise of internationalisation in emerging and developing countries, the stronger regional and intraregional mobility of students and staff between those countries and the emergence there of new models of internationalisation at home and of internationalisation of the curriculum. More...By Brendan O’Malley – Managing Editor. In Commentary, Liz Reisberg and Philip G Altbach condemn the move by the respected Purdue University in the United States to buy the for-profit Kaplan University, calling it “an immense mistake” that will inevitably redefine Purdue’s vision. Roger Chao Jr is upbeat about the launch of the Asian Universities Alliance and the possibility that it will foster the dawn of an Asian higher education regionalisation. Ellen Hazelkorn believes we sit at a historic junction at which higher education has the opportunity and responsibility to play a critical role in building a shared sense of societal purpose and identity. Anne Corbett imagines the election of Emmanuel Macron as president of France will be of great interest to UK higher education and research in terms of impact on Brexit negotiations and also in terms of future strategies against extreme nationalism. Marcelo Knobel and Robert Verhine contend that, while the trend towards for-profit growth in the higher education sector in Brazil is clearly a cause for concern, its rise could be a harbinger of a worldwide trend.
In World Blog, Hans de Wit says that, in a changing international higher education market, the increasing cross-border activities undertaken by the developing world deserve closer attention.
And in Features, Reuben Kyama writes about a Ghanaian-born Coventry University graduate who has received recognition for launching a centre for counter-extremism in West Africa to turn young people, including students, away from terrorism. More...
Le projet Mobapi a remporté la finale du concours de pitch organisé par l’Office franco-québécois pour la jeunesse (OFQJ) qui se tenait lundi 3 avril à Montréal. Voir l'article...
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