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The revised ECTS Users’ Guide was endorsed by the Bologna Follow-Up Group (BFUG) during its meeting on 27-28 November 2014 in Rome and now it is subject to approval by the Ministerial Conference in May 2015 in Yerevan, Armenia.
Following the request from Bologna Ministers in Bucharest in 2012, the ECTS Users’ Guide of 2009 has been revised, in order to strengthen the “meaningful implementation of learning outcomes” in the EHEA. The Guide takes forward the objective of Ministers to “call on institutions to further link study credits with both learning outcomes and student workload and to include the attainment of learning outcomes in assessment procedures”.
The revised version is based on a solid foundation of work done in recent years, both within the Bologna Process and in individual countries, to help the academic community and other stakeholders in higher education to move in the direction of the changes advocated by the Bologna Process
For the revised Guide, please click here. More...

The European Students’ Union (ESU) will enhance its work on human rights in 2015. This was confirmed in the new plan of work that European student representatives adopted at ESU’s Board Meeting in Baku, Azerbaijan, from 1 to 5 December 2014.
ESU organised a two day long seminar on human rights preceding the Board Meeting, where student representatives were invited to discuss relevant international conventions and how they are applied and function in practice. More...

African universities suffer constraints and challenges unknown to Western institutions. One consequence of this is their absence, apart from South Africa and, to a lesser extent, Egypt, from top places in international rankings. In 2014 the whole of the African continent contributed five universities, four South African and one Egyptian, to the top 500 of the Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities. That is less than Israel, Austria or Sweden. More...

Latin American and Spanish and Portuguese universities have not performed very well in research-based global rankings. None can be found in the top 100 of the most recent Academic Ranking of World Universities produced by the Shanghai Center for World-Class Universities and the best performer is the University of São Paulo in the 151-200 band. More...

Rankings by subject illustrate that many universities not visible in major academic rankings, perform remarkably well in a limited academic fields and study areas. 
There is hardly an institution which can claim to perform equally well in all fields and study programs and get confirmation of this by external quality assessment such, academic rankings. At the same time a diverse institutional landscape of higher education reveals that a number of universities have a remarkable performance in a limited academic fields and study areas. Therefore, some national, global, and specialized rankings, in addition to the whole-institution assessment, prepare and publish rankings covering specific academic disciplines or study programmes. More...

By Gabriela Miranda Moriconi. January marks the preparation for the academic year in the Southern Hemisphere, where the school year spans from February/March to November/December. More than simply allocating time for classes and other extra-curricular activities, it is an opportunity to reflect on how to make the best use of classroom time, in order to maximise  learning opportunities for all students. The new Teaching in Focus brief “Improving school climate and opportunities to learn” provides some useful insights into how school climate issues affect actual learning time and discusses some initiatives that could be promoted to make the most of the time that students spend in the classroom. More...

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), like many other National Statistic Offices, is transforming its systems and processes to change the way we disseminate statistics. This transformation will deliver the first large scale Australian digital Census in 2016, increase efficiency, develop new solutions, and ensure the ABS provides a better evidence base for use by government and the community. More...

The Europe 2020 Strategy on the verge on its mid-term review. Simultaneously with the crisis, inequalities have increased in European education and training systems where vulnerable groups are particularly disadvantaged. The level of low-skilled adults, increased numbers of people at the risk of social exclusion and rising unemployment levels in most Member States show that a lot more is to be done in order to reach the 2020 targets. This will require a renewed political commitment to foster lifelong learning at European level with a stronger focus on the social dimension of education, training and youth policies and funds.
Read EUCIS-LLL Position Paper on EU2020 strategy (January 2015). More...

On 6-7 February 2015, European Voice is organising the 16th edition of its EU Studies Fair in Brussels, Belgium.
The event programme will include a keynote address by a senior representative from the DG Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth of the European Commission, and seminars on the topics of European and international studies and Business and Law. For more information about the event, see the poster here or visit: www.eustudiesfair.com and follow us on Facebook. More...