CREUP, the Spanish National Student Union (NUS), celebrates the withdrawal of the Erasmus.es programme, as well as the creation of a single framework of European mobility grants. This implies the withdrawal of the languages requirement, as well as broadening the funded months from 5 to 7. More...
ESU was represented by our Executive Committee member, Chiara Patricolo at the Seminar on integration of Syrian refugees in the European Higher Education system, which took place in Strasbourg between 11th to the 16th of July. The event was organised by the Council of Europe together with the Global Platform for Syrian Students and Kiron - Open Higher Education and Voice of Young Refugees in Europe. More...
The session, organised by the European Students’ Union (ESU) in cooperation with the Youth Department of the Council of Europe, will take place from October 16 to October 22, 2016 (including arrival and departure day) in the European Youth Centre Budapest, Hungary.
The aim of the session is to further develop higher education as a means for democratic innovation and social inclusion and build the organisational capacity of student representatives in the field of human rights, democracy, peace and equality in education, using non-formal and peer learning approaches. More...
By Terri Macdonald. Female representation in the Coalition party room has plummeted, with only 13 women on the Government's benches (compared to 63 men), the lowest level since Paul Keating won the job of Prime Minister in 1993, some 23 years ago. More...
By Jeannie Rea. In response to the latest developments in Turkey, Education International cannot stand idle to what it sees as the degradation of democratic values and strongly condemns the government’s actions which now target the country’s educators. More...
By Andrew MacDonald. The National Tertiary Education Union supports the authors' call for: 'a coordinated national response, with leadership from the health minister, but involving all portfolios, to protect the health of all people in Australia from climate change.' More...
By Andrew MacDonald. The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) intends to argue that staff in research institutes should have the same award protections as their counterparts in universities, when the union appears before the Fair Work Commission’s (FWC) review of Modern Awards this week. More...
The Cybermetrics Lab is a research group belonging to the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), the largest public research body in Spain. It has produced the Webometrics Ranking of World Universities since 2004 and has announced the July edition of its ranking of universities by Google Scholar Citations. More...
The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) and the Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) have published a report listing 100 universities (including university systems) that were granted US utility patents in 2015. The information in the report, the fourth since 2014, was provided by the US Patent and Trademark Office. More...
The International Conference on Excellence Initiatives organized at the initiative and by invitation of the Russian Academic Excellence Project 5-100 took place June 30 - July 1, 2016 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The ITMO University played the role of the conference’s host, and Perspektywy was responsible for organization and functioning of the International Speakers’ Secretariat. More...
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