By Jeannie Rea. The 2016 National Research Infrastructure Roadmap 2016 released last Friday (12 May 2017 highlights the critical role that highly skilled research specialists), amongst other things, play in maintaining and developing Australia’s research capabilities. More...
Dual/Joint Programmes (JP) have been developed by higher education institutions (HEI) since the early 1990s. Today they are one of the main tools for the internationalisation of higher education in Europe. Most of the HEIs have a set of JPs in place, new ones are constantly created and funding at both the EU and the national level is becoming more common. Nevertheless, very little is known about the impact of these programmes on the future of the graduates both from the professional and from the personal point of view. More...
How often have you as an International Director focused your efforts on the practical issues and resources over which you have direct control, only to be thwarted by what you consider to be institutional bureaucracy and people who just don't get 'it'? It happens to us all. A key challenge is the extent to which it is possible to pursue internationalisation strategies within wider, and often competing, institutional priorities. More...
By . Much like the beautiful, coloured tile walls of our host city, the EAIE Seville 2017 programme is an intricate patchwork of stimulating activities. Here’s the daily breakdown, including new interactive session formats, engaging networking events, and three inspiring keynote speakers. More...
By . The Annual EAIE Conference and Exhibition is on the move in 2018 to yet another European city. In today's political climate, the time is ripe for serious discussions on the values of international higher education and how we can preserve them in the spirit of mutual understanding. More...
By . This month's Journal of Studies in International Education addresses topics from Germany and Portugal to Iraq to Korea and Malaysia. Articles focus in on the subject of student mobility and address such topics as the push-pull factors of international students, discrimination of mobile students, perceived risks of studying abroad, national evolution of student mobility, and low rates of student mobility in specific programmes. More...
By . Technology continues to shape the internationalisation of higher education. Every year New Media Consortium and EDUCAUSE releases the Horizon Report that focuses in on the future of technology in higher education. Many of the findings are relevant to the work we do as international educators. More...
The Indian government is proposing to support twenty universities in a drive to achieve world-class status. The universities, ten of which will be private institutions, are expected to reach the top 500 of any global ranking within ten years and then the top 100. The focus will be on science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) subjects while it appears the social sciences and humanities will be “left behind”. More...
The ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest is sponsored by IBM and began in 1970 when it was known as the Annual Texas Collegiate Programming Championship. The current format is teams composed of three university students competing to solve a number of programming problems. The finals were held in Grand Rapid, South Dakota, USA, between the 20th and the 26th of May. More...
The 2018 edition of the Guardian University League Tables has been published. These rankings of British universities are distinctive in that they do not contain any assessment of research output or quality and are concerned with metrics that relate to the experience and outcomes of undergraduate students. More...
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