By . Because of the way an international office operates, face-to-face contact and regular catch-up meetings are not always possible. Where this is the case, it’s important to ensure that a new employee feels supported in some other way. “Handover period can include electronic notes, Skype sessions or bitty formats when more experienced staff members need to be away”, says the International Recruitment and Marketing Manager at Bath Spa University. More...
By . Internationalisation is no longer the remit of only a few dedicated internationalisation professionals at higher education institutions, but increasingly so of several internal and external stakeholders. With a multitude of individuals and entities being involved in the process, the question of who is in charge of internationalisation and of steering its future developments emerges. More...
By . What a year 2016 has been! While the political and global environment that we operate in changes around us, our role in international education becomes even more important. As the year comes to an end, it’s timely to reflect on the hot topics and current events that have shaped our work in the internationalisation of higher education. More...
The HackerRank website has announced a global ranking of educational institutions according to the coding ability of their students. It has organized a University Rankings Competition with 5,500 students from 126 institutions. Universities are ranked according to the number of participants and their scores. More...
Shanghai Ranking has produced a series of subject rankings the latest of which is a global ranking of sport science schools and departments. The ranking has five indicators that measure academic or research achievement: papers indexed in the Web of Science, number of citations of published papers, citations per paper, papers published in the top 25% of journals, and percentage of publications with international co-authors. More...
A report by Clarivate Analytics, the former business group of Thomson Reuters, analyses the research output from 2006 to 2016 of 14 countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) stretching from Morocco to Pakistan.The most productive country was Turkey with a total of 277, 781 publications in the Web of Science database, followed by Iran, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. The amount of research in other countries was very low and several countries such as Libya, Syria, Iraq and Bahrain were not included in the survey. The list of top ten universities included four from Iran, three from Turkey, two from Saudi Arabia and one from Egypt. More...
To celebrate our two decades, we gathered our team and friends for a press conference and a reception at Kompagnietor in Flensburg on 7th of December.
“For 20 years ECMI has had a presence in 15 countries, with 250 projects, hosting 27 visiting researchers and 231 interns, with total 283 staff members in headquarters and regional offices.” More...
For the last two days, Donostia, San Sebastian is a hub of experts on language policies. UNESCO Etxea, in collaboration with the Donostia-San Sebastián Foundation 2016 organised the European Language Diversity Forum to reflect on and debate the different aspects of the development of minority languages in Europe. More...
What are the executive bodies responsible for minority policy? How do they function? These are the main topics of the current EPP seminars taking place on 12-14 December 2016 in Kyiv, Ukraine.
The EPP seminar on functions and competences of bodies of executive power responsible for minority policy has started yesterday in Kyiv. More...
What is the ECMI team planning for 2017? What are our Focus Points? How do we plan to promote minority rights throughout the next year? The ECMI Annual Programme 2017 outlines few highlights for the upcoming year, including ongoing research and action oriented projects and the planned initiatives within the ECMI research clusters. More...
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