The registration period for the 2015-2016 round of EUA’s Institutional Evaluation Programme (IEP) is open until 3 July 2015. IEP offers higher education institutions the opportunity to take part in a comprehensive, improvement-oriented institutional evaluation conducted by a team of experienced higher education leaders.
For further information on the Programme and how to register, please visit the IEP website. More...
EUA was invited as an observer to the fourth Annual Meeting of the Global Research Council (GRC), which took place in Tokyo, Japan. This year’s meeting was co-hosted by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) and the National Research Foundation (NRF) of South Africa. More...
EUA’s Annual Report 2014 is now available on the EUA website. The report summarises the different activities carried out by EUA on behalf of and in support of its members last year across a number of thematic areas including: learning and teaching; research and innovation; quality management; governance, autonomy and funding; and internationalisation.
The publication also provides a summary of EUA’s governance structure (including Board, Council and General Assembly), as well as EUA's 2014 financial statements. To download the report, click here. More...
27 university leaders in doctoral education from five continents met at the University of Iceland on 21-22 May to discuss talent development and doctoral education at the 3rd Strategic Global Forum on Doctoral Education.
The meeting confirmed the converging global trends in doctoral education, which EUA has observed since its CODOC project: doctoral education is becoming an ever more integrated part of the development of knowledge societies around the globe, and universities face often similar challenges in training talented researchers for a changing society as well as for changing academic careers. More...
In absolute figures: according to the May edition of the European MOOC scoreboards, European MOOCs with 1481 courses account for almost one-third of the world MOOC production – in the past, it was one-fourth. In EUA’s 2015 Trends study, almost more than one-fifth of institutions indicated that they have MOOCs – and another 24% planned to have one. Assuming that the 449 institutions are representative – and there are indications that they are, at least for the EU area – every second European university will have MOOCs. More...
By Renee Veal (NTEU National Office). NTEU's Workplace Gender Equality Report 2014-2015.
La 6è édition de la Réunion mondiale des Associations de l’AIU (GMA-6) a eu lieu du 6 au 8 mai 2015, à Montréal, Canada et a permis de travailler sur les questions relatives à l’innovation sociale et au rôle et aux défis auxquels les établissements d’enseignement supérieur font face en tant qu’acteurs de ce processus.Les Highlights from the Press de l'AIU offrent un aperçu des articles parus dans la presse mondiale durant le mois précédent sa parution. Ils sont à destination des responsables des établissements et des organisations membres de l’AIU afin de leur permettre de rester informés sur les tendances du secteur de l’enseignement supérieur dans le monde et de repérer les grands sujets évoqués dans la presse.
Ce numéro comprend des articles en anglais et en français de 36 pays édités en mai 2015. Les articles sont choisis selon la fréquence du thème qu’ils traitent, leur localisation (pour avoir des informations sur toutes les régions) et leur thématique. Voir l'article...
IAU Highlights from the Press is a monthly review of media and news sources produced to keep IAU Members up-to-date on higher education news and trends worldwide. This issue includes articles, in English and French, from 36 different countries which appeared in the press in May 2015. /https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
