With the occasion of the 69th Board Meeting in Cluj-Napoca, ESU members elected with unanimity the European Deaf Students' Union (EDSU) as Associate Member. ESU was delighted to meet Bernadette Auersperg, Board Member of EDSU who participated to the whole Board Meeting 69 and Board Meeting Seminar. ESU ensured that international sign language interpreters were present to ensure a smooth communication. More...
The European Students' Union is organising with colleagues of the EQUIP project (EURASHE, ENQA, EUA, EI, EQAR, UiO, CCISP) 5 events on the use of the ESG 2015 as a tool for change in European higher education. The events will take place in the first semester of 2016.
Free-of-charge registrations for these events are now open here. More...
ESU will take part in a new project, co-financed by the European Commission in the framework of ERASMUS+. The project - called 'Measuring and comparing Achievements of Learning Outcomes in Higher Education in Europe’ (CALOHEE) - aims to answer the questions above by developing the infrastructure that will eventually make it possible to test bachelor and master students’ performance Europe-wide across a range of fields. More...
As you may know, Slovenians' opinions are divided on many issues; due to geographical or political reasons. This means that the country has many opposing thoughts on the topic of refugees. On one hand, there are the ones who believe that refugees are going to enrich our society, that our country should put in some efforts to keep (some of) the refugees in our country and that people are coming from warzones, where their lives are endangered and to flee is the only possible and reasonable way to survive. More...
A new ranking of universities according to their global influence has been developed by José Lages and Antoine Patt of Université de Franche-Comté and Dima L. Shepelyansky of Université de Toulouse. It attempts to measure the influence of universities based on a method derived from Google’s ranking of search results. Universities referred to in Wikipedia articles are analysed as nodes in a network and are deemed influential if other articles link to them. More...
An article in Quartz has drawn attention to the ongoing trend for universities around the world to amalgamate. The basis for the article is a study by Enora Bennetot Pruvot, Thomas Estermann and Peter Mason for the European Universities Association (EUA) that notes that there have been nearly 100 university mergers since 2000, with 14 of them occurring in 2014. The countries most affected are France with 16, UK eleven, Estonia eleven, Belgium 10 and Denmark eight. More...
TimesHigher Education (THE) has just published the third edition of its BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) and Emerging Economies rankings. The emerging economies are those identified by FTSE and include three in Latin America, six in Africa, five in the Middle East, eleven in Eastern Europe, and six in Asia. More...
The journal Nature has published the latest edition of the Nature Publishing Index: Asia-Pacific. This is based on papers classified as articles, letters, brief communications and reviews in Nature or Nature monthly research journals during the year ending on the 14th of December. More...
By David Istance. First, the programme is at a “watershed” as a statement of fact: the main curriculum programme has now been implemented, and the overhaul of teachers’ education and qualifications is nearly complete. This is watershed meaning “key transition moment”. More...
By Andreas Schleicher and Skills Claudia Costin. How do large-scale student assessments, like PISA, actually work? What are the key ingredients that are necessary to produce a reliable, policy relevant assessment of what children and young people know and can do with what they know? A new report commissioned by the OECD and the World Bank offers a behind-the-scenes look at how some of the largest of these assessments are developed and implemented, particularly in developing countries. More...
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