
Université et « gilets jaunes »

Universities have lost public support in recent years. In order to get it back, college presidents should worry less about how their institutions fare in college rankings and focus more on affordability, great teaching and doing research that matters most to the communities they serve. More...
What kind of education can give us hope for the future? As an experiential educator for the past 20 years who focused my doctoral research on school exclusion, this is a question close to my heart. More...
La Commission européenne vient de préciser le contenu du programme pilote qui soutiendra six alliances d'universités européennes, regroupant chacune au moins trois établissements d'enseignement supérieur de trois pays, pour promouvoir le renforcement de l'identité et de l’excellence européennes, "tout en contribuant à améliorer la compétitivité des établissements européens d'enseignement supérieur. Plus...
The Council of Europe discussed yesterday and today in Moscow with leading Russian universities the prospects for enhanced academic cooperation on the Council of Europe's conventions.
As a first step, a new training course on human rights and biomedicine (bioethics) was presented at the Faculty of Medicine of the Lomonosov Moscow State University. The course has been developed by the Council of Europe and the Russian Ministry of Health under the Pan-European HELP programme (Human Rights Education for Legal Professionals). It deals with issues regulated by the Oviedo Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine, including the free and informed consent, protection of health-related data, protection of the embryo and procreation, end of life, genetic testing, biomedical research, and the transplantation of human organs and tissues. More...
Adaptive reuse in higher ed blends the old with the new. More...