Von Christopher Piltz und Charlotte Schmitz. Der Campus ist weit von zu Hause entfernt, aber das Begehren groß. Und wohin jetzt? Eine Fotografiestudentin hat Orte abgelichtet, an denen ihre Kommilitonen Sex hatten. Mehr...
1 mai 2016
1 mai 2016
Second International Conference on Cultural Political Economy
Theme for the conference: “Putting culture in its place in political economy”. The conference will focus on themes in inter‐ and trans‐disciplinary social sciences, approaching Cultural Political Economy as analytical resource. It will look to further develop the Cultural Political Economy conceptualisations and it is particularly interested in ‘the cultural’ in relation to ‘the political’ and ‘the economic’. More...
1 mai 2016
High levels of employability for Erasmus Mundus graduates
Erasmus Mundus was launched in 2004 as an initiative to boost joint degrees on Master level in Europe. In 2013, the programme was merged into Erasmus+. Every year, the Erasmus Mundus Students and Alumni Association carries out a Graduate Impact Survey. The most recent issue shows high levels of employability and high levels of satisfaction among the graduates. More...
1 mai 2016
U-multirank is growing
Earlier this month, the third U-Multirank was launched. In 2016/2017 edition U-Multirank is larger than ever, with 1300 institutions from 90 countries, and 13 subject areas compared with over 10700 study programmes covered. More...
1 mai 2016
Free Informal language & MOOC conference call #CfP #MOOC #Language
By Inge Ignatia de Waard. Consider joining (by attending and/or presenting) at the International conference on MOOCs, Informal Language Learning, and Mobility. It offers FREE registration for all, plus a potential 200 EUR to cover travel cost if you are coming from outside of the UK. Read more...
1 mai 2016
New report shows employer-sponsored degrees are around six times cheaper for taxpayers
On Thursday, 21st April 2016, the Higher Education Policy Institute will be publishing a new report entitled Making a Success of Employer Sponsored Education by Professor Dave Phoenix, Vice-Chancellor of London South Bank University and Chair of million+. More...
1 mai 2016
‘If anyone can contextualise unsettling findings, it is those who work with new knowledge inside universities’
Waiting for the results of the most detailed ever study into the earnings of UK graduates, which has been published today by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), has been reminiscent of the First World War. More...
1 mai 2016
The risk facing the NUS comes less from disaffiliation campaigns and more from policymakers
We have worked closely with, Megan Dunn, the outgoing President of the National Union of Students (NUS), who is a great advocate for students. But today’s media is full of stories resulting from the election of a new President, Malia Bouattia. The banner headline across the front page of The Times, for example, has a story about a potential mass NUS disaffiliation campaign. More...
1 mai 2016
The Balkanization of Canadian Student Aid
By . So, a couple of things happened late last week worth mentioning:
First, the Newfoundland Budget was released and as predicted it was a slash-and-burn exercise. The province, facing a deficit of something like 8% of GDP, had to make major changes. Unbelievably, the tuition freeze stayed, sort of (more on this tomorrow), but student aid took a hit. More...
1 mai 2016
Some Alternative Explanations for Provincial Funding Decisions
By . So, last week (see here) I contrasted the fact that higher education was a consistent winner at the federal level over the past twenty years, and contrasted that with the fact that higher education had largely been a loser at the provincial level since about 2010 (and not just in the sense that funding is falling in real terms – also in terms of having the ability to offset those losses with higher fees). More...
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