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Depuis le 7 avril 2014, un éditeur en ligne de lettre de motivation a été lancé.
Celui-ci va faciliter la rédaction des lettres de motivation et compléter utilement le CV Europass.
Cet éditeur en ligne propose :

• Une interface conviviale avec prévisualisation directe du document final;

• Une mise en page reprenant l'identité graphique Europass;

• Des menus contextuels avec textes prédéfinis.

Tout savoir sur la lettre de motivation Europass. Voir l'article...

Cette journée qui se déroulera de 09h30 à 16h00 rassemblera un public de professionnels concerné par les questions d'orientation tout au long de la vie, d'insertion professionnelle et de mobilité en Europe.
Des outils et réseaux facilitant la mobilité européenne seront présentés à travers 3 types de  parcours "orientation", "formation/certification" et "emploi".
16 Octobre 2014 Conférence Espace LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Paris. Voir l'article...

En pleine compétition des Euroskills 2014, vivez la 1re conférence annuelle de l'Agence
Erasmus+ France Education Formation !
Cette conférence intitulée Erasmus+ pour tous… Au service de l'emploi et des compétences réunira plus de deux cents décideurs et acteurs de l'éducation et de la formation.
1 Octobre 2014 Conférence Conseil régional Nord-Pas de Calais Lille cedex
Au programme :

• plénières et tables-rondes autours de décideurs et d'élus ;
• ateliers sur les enjeux d'Erasmus+ : territoires, démocratisation, International hors UE, enseignement scolaire, partenariats stratégiques ;
• le lancement festif de la nouvelle Agence et des Euroskills 2014 au Zénith de Lille ;
• speed-meetings et conseils  sur les candidatures, moments de partage autour des apprentis et des opportunités européennes. Voir l'article...

L'agence participera à ce grand rassemblement autour de l'apprentissage en Europe.
Elle y présentera le programme Erasmus+ et le dispositif Europass sur le stand Youth on the Move de la Commission européenne.
Les 500 jeunes participants à la compétition recevront un Europass Mobilité.
A suivre tout particulièrement :

• Table ronde : La mobilité européenne et internationale des jeunes : une clé pour l'avenir > Jeudi 02 octobre, de 14h30 à 16h 
• Table ronde : L'entrepreneuriat des jeunes en Europe > Vendredi 03 octobre, de 10h à 12h.

Tout savoir sur Euroskills. Voir l'article...

NEW: 2nd 2014 edition
July edition has been published
          Data collection for the new edition has finished without major problems, so the Ranking is now in its 11th year of publication. Please, take into account that the following information updates the methodology described in that section:

Revision of invalid entries
          From this edition we are enforcing our policy of requesting full 24/7 availability of the websites, so those universities failing to answer our ping requests (two consecutive) to their servers are now excluded. The total count of universities ranked is now just below 22000, a decrease explained by this new protocol.

Policy change regarding duplicate domains
          As previously informed, we also changed our policy regarding the universities with two or more central web domains, a bad practice that it is going to be even more penalized than before. Until now, all the main web domains of the university were ranked, but only the one with the better web indicators was published, even if this was the old or the not-preferred one in the central homepage. This procedure is still applied when both domains maintain their independence, but If the old domain redirects to the new one, this will be the one ranked and published. As expected, this is having strong (negative) impact on a few universities.

Changes in the calculation of indicators
Regarding PRESENCE. Rich files are calculated (pdf, doc/docx, ppt/pptx, ps/eps) and excluded from the total number of web pages.
Regarding VISIBILITY. The 10 top linking domains and their corresponding backlinks are excluded.
Regarding OPENNESS. Google Scholar is again used for this indicator, combining the full number of items with those published during the 2009-2013 period.
Regarding EXCELLENCE. The Scimago data (top 10% most cited papers by discipline) has been updated to the five year period 2008-2012. More...

Over the last few years, there has been increasing interest in university rankings in Arab countries.  Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) and the US News and World Report have both announced that they will produce rankings of Arab universities.
Now another ranking is in the pipeline. Times Higher Education (THE) will be holding its first Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Universities Summit in Doha, Qatar, in February next year, in partnership with Qatar University. In addition to sessions on research collaboration and university leadership there will be a discussion of proposals for a THE MENA university ranking “featuring a bespoke range of metrics for the region.”
Times Higher Education. More...

Harvard is first place in the world rankings, as it was last year, followed by MIT, Stanford, Cornell and the University of Michigan in the latest edition of the Webometrics rankings, published by the Cybermetrics Lab at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas in Spain. There are some noticeable changes at the top. The University of Pennsylvania has fallen from fifth place in the world last year to tenth while UCLA has dropped from sixth to fourteenth.
The Webometrics rankings are highly distinctive since they are largely based on web data which, the producers argue, is more comprehensive and objective. More...

Mr Reinhard H. Koslitz, Executive Director of the Didacta Association of the Education Industry, visited UIL on July 31, 2014 to explore partnership possibilities between both institutions.
During the meeting, Mr Arne Carlsen, Director of UIL, introduced the Global Network of Learning Cities (GNLC) as one of the main projects that could offer opportunities for support from the private sector.
Mr Koslitz presented the core working areas of the association and affirmed that Didacta has a strong commitment to promote the concept of lifelong learning. He also expressed a strong interest in cooperating with UIL and in promoting the GNLC.
As a first step towards building a cooperative relationship, a symposium on the theme of lifelong learning and learning cities will be co-organized during the Didacta 2015 – The Education Trade fair 2015 in Hanover, Germany in February 2015. More...

The fourth EQAR Register Committee took office from 1 July 2014, for a term of two years. The Register Committee is an independent expert body that acts as the “gatekeeper” of the European Quality Assurance Register for Higher Education: it decides on inclusion of quality assurance agencies on the Register, based on their substantial compliance with the European Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance (ESG).
More information on the Committee and how its members are nominated is available here. More...

The University of Lorraine in France is organising “Science & You”, a series of scientific and cultural events taking place from 1 to 6 June 2015.
Targeted at all stakeholders interested in science communication, “Science & You 2015” will include: the Journées Hubert Curien (JHC) international conference which looks to bring together experts in science communication; a forum open to the general public with stands and demonstrations; a training event on science communication; and a series of other events for the general public spread across the Lorraine region.
For more information on how to submit a proposal by 15 September 2014, please view the event website. More...