Être ouvert et tourné vers les autres, défendre la tolérance et rejeter la haine à tous les niveaux de la société, tels sont des indicateurs déterminants d’une Europe forte, prospère et soucieuse des valeurs.
A l’initiative du Conseil de l’Europe, la Journée européenne des langues est célébrée chaque année le 26 septembre depuis 2001. C’est un appel pour encourager tous les citoyens européens à apprendre les langues et à reconnaître et valoriser la diversité culturelle européenne. Plus...
Successful capacity-building for Seychelles adult educators
The Seychelles Institute of Distance and Open Learning (SIDOL), with the support of the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL), conducted a capacity-building workshop for adult educators focused on the reshaping of their literacy programme. More...
UNESCO Conference on Learning Cities to focus on inclusion
More than half the world’s population lives in cities today. The UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities has 170 active members from 53 countries in every region of the world. Each city in the network has implemented effective lifelong learning policies and practices that support the development of inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable cities and contribute to 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. More...
Finland’s competitive edge: collaboration
Finland is extremely keen on ice hockey, and every spring a lot of public and media attention is paid to the World Championships. One of the biggest talking points is always how many Finnish players from the National Hockey League (NHL) in North America will join the national team for the tournament. The NHL attracts the best players globally, and for the countries competing in the World Championships, getting as many of them as possible to come home to play for their country of origin is considered the recipe for success. More...
Audience of one: gaining strategic support from university leadership
The EAIE Alumni Relations Expert Community has been assisting with the development of alumni relations programmes in European universities for more than twenty years. As we have observed programmes mature over the years, we have noted that some have thrived while others struggle. What we have discovered, not surprisingly, is that support from leadership has a lot of influence on programme success and employee satisfaction. More...
Curriculum internationalisation: a process of change
Internationalisation of the curriculum isn’t simply an à la carte addition to your internationalisation strategy – it’s an institution-wide shift that affects stakeholders across the university. When initiating big changes like these, practitioners would be well-served to take some cues from the business world and think in terms of change management. More...
QS Graduate Employability Rankings: Strong Performance by Australian and Asian Universities
Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) has published the latest edition of its Graduate Employability Rankings. The upper levels are fairly similar to those of research dominant rankings with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in first place followed by Stanford University. Some universities do much better for employability than they do for research or other indicators in the global rankings. More...
URAP Field Rankings: China Challenges US Dominance
The University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP) is produced by the Informatics Institute at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara. The Institute publishes world rankings every year and has recently released field rankings. The field rankings show that US dominance of research is fading and that China has taken the lead in engineering and related subjects. More...
European Heritage Days 2019
Statement by Amélie de Montchalin, Representative of the Presidency of the Committee of Ministers, Secretary of State for European Affairs of the French Republic. More...Re-enactment of the first meeting of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe and exhibition
As part of the French Chairmanship of the Committee of Ministers and the 70th anniversary of the Council of Europe, the ambassadors of the organisation’s current 47 member countries will come together there for a commemorative meeting on 18 September. More...