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By Yolaan Begbie. South Africa is known to have some of the best universities on the continent. Search any global university ranking and you’re likely to find at least two or three South African universities listed. There are many that don’t make the cut but we at Africa.com believe that South Africa offers world-class learning experiences—so much so that they are sought out by other African students and thousands from abroad. Following our piece on the Top 10 Universities in Africa, Africa.com now brings you the Top 10 Universities in South Africa. More...

Intrigued by the idea of studying in the world’s largest country, and one of its fastest growing economic powers? Discover the top universities in Russia, based on the new QS University Rankings: BRICS, a ranking of the top 100 universities in the five BRICS countries, developed in collaboration with Russian news agency Interfax. Russian capital Moscow is home to many of the country’s leading universities, and is a popular destination for students due not only to its choice of institutions, but also its vibrant and diverse nightlife, dynamic cultural scene, rich history and seemingly endless range of things to see and do. Famous for its lavish buildings and affluent lifestyles, the city also has an edgier, underground culture, while the iconic red brick towers of the Kremlin continue to attract a stream of tourists from around the world. More...

It’s fair to say that universities in China dominate the new QS University Rankings: BRICS, a ranking of the top 100 universities in the five BRICS countries, developed by QS in collaboration with Russian news agency Interfax. In the new ranking, 40 of the top 100 places are taken by universities in China, including seven of the top 10 spots and almost half of the top 50. The very top two places go to the prestigious Tsinghua University and Peking University, both of which rank within the global top 50 in the latest QS World University Rankings®. More...

Recent years have seen a growing international recognition for universities in Brazil, with 22 Brazilian institutions featured in the 2013/14 QS World University Rankings®. The new QS University Rankings: BRICS, developed in collaboration with Russian news agency Interfax, makes it possible to see how the top universities in Brazil compare with the leading institutions in fellow fast-growing economies Russia, India, China and South Africa. A total of 17 Brazilian universities are ranked among the top 100 BRICS universities, and the 11 top universities in Brazil are all within the BRICS top 50. With stiff competition from four countries that have all been investing heavily in developing their higher education systems, it seems Brazil is succeeding in holding its own. More...

India boasts 16 entries in the top 100 of the new QS University Rankings: BRICS, a ranking of leading universities in the five BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa). Unsurprisingly, the top universities in India are largely comprised of Institutes of Technology (IITs) – the elite group of colleges specializing in engineering, technology and science disciplines which have so far provided the main success story of Indian higher education. Of the 16 IITs in operation, half are ranked within the BRICS top 100, and the first seven of these also constitute the seven top universities in India. Also performing well are a number of large multidisciplinary public universities, based in India’s major cities: the final three places in the Indian top 10 are taken by the Universities of Calcutta, Delhi and Mumbai, and the BRICS top 100 also includes the University of Hyderabad, University of Madras, Banaras Hindu University, University of Pune and Manipal University. More...

By Felix von Wendorff. I have mentioned several times how international students are accustomed to “failing their way to success.” But I realized I never gave you an example, so I decided to write down my own university application story, which ended in me studying at the University of Frankfurt, but was full of barriers and challenges to overcome. The main lesson is that most university application plans will fail, or need to be drastically improved or altered (the best laid plans of mice and men, you know the saying). But if you stick to the fight, then you will succeed. So here goes. More...

Convocatoria
VIRTUAL EDUCA PERÚ 2014,  Museo de la Nación, Lima, Perú 09-13 de junio, 2014
El Ministerio de Educación (MINEDU) del Perú, la Secretaría General de la Organización de los Estados Americanos (OEA) y la Secretaría General de Virtual Educa convocan el XV Encuentro internacional Virtual Educa, que tendrá lugar en Lima durante los días 09 a 13 de junio, 2014.
Bienvenidos/as todas/os al XV Encuentro internacional Virtual Educa, que celebraremos en la ciudad de Lima, Perú, del 09 al 13 de junio de 2014.
Esta edición de nuestro Encuentro internacional tiene un sabor especial, ya que es el quince aniversario de lo que se inició como una reunión de expertos y responsables institucionales en Madrid, España, en el año 2000.
Avanzada la segunda década del SXXI, parece que los principios del milenio quedan muy atrás. Sin embargo es muy breve el tiempo transcurrido desde que nos preguntábamos si el día 1 de enero del año 2000 supondría un colapso de las computadoras y redes a nivel planetario, o empezábamos a ser conscientes de que la globalización y el cambio de paradigma iba a modificar la realidad en que vivimos.

The revamped version of Europe’s most popular student programme was signed into law on 11 December by European Parliament President Martin Schulz. Erasmus+ boasts a budget of more than EUR 14 billion for 2014-2020, nearly twice as much as its current funding, giving more than four million young Europeans the chance to study or train abroad.

Erasmus+, due to begin in January, is aimed at boosting skills, employability and supporting the modernisation of education, training and youth systems. It supports 13-30 year old students, trainees, apprentices, volunteers, teaching staff or trainers to seek education, training or even organised sporting activities in other EU countries. The leaders of youth clubs and voluntary workers will now also be eligible for Erasmus+ funding.

The programme brings together existing education and training initiatives Comenius, Erasmus, Erasmus Mundus, Leonardo da Vinci and Grundtvig, which maintain their names as they are already well known. It also includes the Youth in Action programme and for the first time covers sport. 

Links

• EP Library Briefing
• European Parliament Report on Erasmus +
• Erasmus +

Wed, 11/06/2014 to Fri, 13/06/2014, Warsaw,Poland, LLL Universities & the European Policies on Social Investment.
PRESENTATION
Given the magnitude of challenges faced by Europe today, including population ageing as well as economic crisis, but also increasing pace of changes due to globalisation and technological development, it is important to seek for human capital development that would enable Europe to face these challenges. The European Commission recently announced its Social Investment Package, which guides the policy responses for human development. Lifelong learning universities should take the conference as an opportunity to discuss and define their understanding of the "social investment".

Theme: Innovative Learning-Scapes: e-Scapes, play-Scapes & more
Aim: to examine the impacts that social and mobile media and networks are having on learning environments in higher education
Conference Dates: May 31 to June 02, 2014 (Saturday, Sunday, and Monday)
Venue: The Hilton Anchorage. All conference activities (sessions, luncheons, etc) will be held at the Hilton – 500 West Third Avenue, Anchorage, Alaska, USA 99501 (+1-907-272-7411).
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Overview
Following its successful 2013 International HETL Conference at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, the International Higher Education Teaching and Learning Association (HETL) invites you to attend the 2014 International HETL Conference, to be held in Anchorage, Alaska, USA.
About the Theme
In Being a University (2011, p143), Ronald Barnett talks about the emerging university of the future as an ecological university, where the ecological university is not only concerned with the natural environment but is concerned about “…a much wider ambit, embracing the personal, social, cultural, institutional and technological environments and knowledge of those environments; in short, the world in its fullest senses.” The ecological university thus endeavors to cultivate those interconnections through meaningful and diverse ways of learning and inquiry. A learning-scape, therefore, may be defined as a conceptual construct that shapes our perceptions of our learning environments. A learning-scape may be viewed as a mosaic of learning environments (i.e., a holistic learning ecosystem) interconnected and interacting at all levels. Personal, cultural, institutional and technological environments can have an enormous impact on learning-scapes because all these environments are intertwined and symbiotic to various degrees. Thus, we need to remind ourselves that curiosity, creativity, and meaningful dialogue and interactions are vitally important because they form the basis for and the context of our humanity and human learning. We need to remind ourselves that appropriate design of learning-scapes matters. More...