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Co-financed by the European Commission within the framework of the SAVES project, the Student Switch Off Campaign is launching in 5 European countries in September and October 2014.
Student Switch Off is an action aiming at promoting energy saving behavior among the students living in dormitories, first set up by the National Union of Students of United Kingdom (NUS UK). Participating dormitories are put in a competition to save the most energy by simple everyday actions, like putting a lid on a saucepan, switching off light when not used, avoiding boiling more water than needed or putting on a jumper instead of heating. Last academic year the campaign contributed to cutting 3.000 tonnes of carbon and saved the education sector £400.000. More...

The US News & World Report (USNWR) has released its inaugural Best Arab Region Universities Rankings. These are entirely research based and use bibliometric data from the Scopus database, which is part of the Elsevier Research intelligence portfolio.
The indicators are publications, cited publications, percent of publications cited, citations, field-weighted citation impact, number of highly cited publications in top 10 percent, percentage of total publications in top 10 per cent, number of highly cited publications in top 25 percent and percentage of total publications in top 25 per cent

In addition to its Best Global Universities rankings, the US News & World Report (USNWR) has issued research based rankings for 21 subjects. Harvard dominates but Asia is rising in engineering and materials science.

The US News & World Report is famous for its rankings of American universities and colleges. It has now ventured into the global ranking scene and produced a list of the top 500 global universities. These are research based rankings that do not attempt to assess anything to do with teaching apart from two indicators that count PhDs...
Overall, the USA remains dominant with 134 universities in the top 500. Germany comes second with 42 in the top 500 followed by the United Kingdom with 38 and France with 22. Once again Russia’s performance is poor, only two universities, less than Ireland, Israel or Hong Kong. Among Asian countries, China has 28 universities in the top 500, Japan 17 and India four.

A rare phenomenon at the turn of the century, English-medium instruction (EMI) has become a systemic feature in some European countries, particularly at the Master level. Even though the growth curve now shows signs of flattening, English-taught programmes have become immensely numerous and popular in the last 15 years.
As a consequence of this rising attention, ACA decided to dedicate its next European Policy Seminar – the 44th of the series- to this theme. There will be presented the key findings of ACA`s latest (2014) Europe-wide surveys of this form of tuition, as well as many more items: the difficult question of which language - or languages - Europe`s new global outreach strategy should use, linguistic quality issues, the lack of a minimum proficiency in the local language, and the alternatives of qualified forms of multilingualism.
Are English-taught programmes an advisable means to attract international students who would not dare to study in the domestic language, or are those critics right who view them as a form of tuition where students who do not understand English are taught by staff who do not master it? In other words: is English medium tuition a blessing or a curse? Join the discussion at the next ACA European Policy Seminar on 4 December.
Find out more details on the programme and registrations on ACA Website. More...