« Partir pour mieux grandir ? » : la 19e Université de la Formation, de l’Education et de l’Orientation (UFEO) sera consacrée à la mobilité internationale et à l’éducation interculturelle
La prochaine édition de « l’UFEO » est programmée les 14 et 15 octobre prochain à Artigues-près-Bordeaux. Toujours consacrée à la formation, l’éducation et l’orientation, cette manifestation  poursuit toutefois son élargissement thématique initié en 2012 : tisser un lien fort avec des dimensions sociétales et humaines.
Ainsi, l’édition 2013, « Partir pour mieux grandir ? Les apports de la mobilité internationale et de l’éducation interculturelle en débat » offrira un lieu d’échange aux décideurs publics, opérateurs et chercheurs de la relation formation-emploi sur ces questions.
Piloté par Aquitaine Cap Métiers, l’événement est organisé sous l’égide d’un comité scientifique rassemblant des représentants des Universités de Bordeaux, de la Région Aquitaine, du CESER d’Aquitaine, des services déconcentrés de l’Etat, ainsi que pour cette 19^e édition de représentants de l’Agence Europe Education Formation France (2E2F) et d’AFS Vivre sans frontière.
Les principaux thèmes de réflexion seront consacrés aux effets de la mobilité sur les processus de formation et d’insertion, aux perspectives historiques du lien entre mobilité, formation et insertion, aux outils de mesure des apports de la mobilité, aux différentes échelles de la mobilité (locale, nationale, internationale)ou encore à la mobilité vue par les entreprises.
Près d’une trentaine d’intervenants ont confirmé leur participation aux débats, conférences, tables rondes et ateliers, et notamment Anne-Marie Cocula, vice-présidente du Conseil régional d’Aquitaine en charge de l’Education, de l’Enseignement Supérieur, de la Culture et de l’Apprentissage, Antoine Godbert, directeur général de l’Agence 2E2F, Jacqueline Bergeron, présidente d’Erasmus Expertise, docteur en sciences de l’éducation, Fred Dervin, professeur à l’université d’Helsinki (Finlande) et spécialiste des questions multiculturelles, Aline Gohard-Radenkovic, professeur, Université de Fribourg (Suisse), Magali Ballatore, chargée de recherche à l’Université catholique de Louvain (Belgique), et Ulysse Gosset, journaliste, BFM TV…
Voir le programme, s’inscrire : www.ufeo.fr.

 Organized by: The University of Western Australia
The central theme of the 6th Asia Pacific Conference on Educational Integrity which will take place 2-4 October 2013 at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia is to encourage scholarly discussion among practitioners regarding the various issues we face in this translation process. Accordingly, the overarching theme of 6APCEI is From Policy to Practice—bridging the gap. Naturally, this theme subsumes a number of relevant topics. Papers are being solicited on all topics relevant to this theme.
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International Conference on Quality in Higher Education (ICQH) aims to provide a multinational platform where the latest trends quality in higher education can be presented and discussed in a friendly environment with the aim to learn from each other.
ICQH 2013 conference is supported by Sakarya University and Governers State University and will take place on December 11-13 2013 at  Sakarya University, Sakarya, Turkey.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Prof. Dr. Elaine P. Maimon
President, Governors State University
Higher Education: An Engine for Democracy in the United States.
IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract Deadline : December 01, 2013
Full Article Deadline : December 03, 2013
Registration Fee Deadline :December 05, 2013
SPONSORED BY
Sakarya University
TASET. The Association of Science, Education and Technology
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Topic : ’Stakeholders engagement and success of education and training systems reforms. What correlation?’
During the 10th session of CIMQUSEF crowning a decade of the AMAQUEN engagement to participate in efforts to improve quality in education systems and training, we have chosen in line with the themes covered field of quality management, to address this topical issue. Because it is linked to possible roles the different actors and stakeholders in the success of the reforms undertaken by different countries or groups of countries to improve their systems of education and training. The Cimqusef'2013 invite speakers and participants to try to answer the questions underlying the issue:
''How do the management of change promotes engagement of stakeholders in the success of the SET reforms?''.
Orginizers: Association Marocaine pour l'Amélioration de la Qualité de l'Enseignement (AMAQUEN)
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Budd Hall, Canada. UNESCO Chair in Community-Based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Ed
Poem by Budd Hall based on a poem by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, presented at the 6th International Barcelona Conference on Higher Education 2013

We have seen the images, the flames.
We have seen the anger and the confusion in the faces of our friends.
But, we are told that perhaps...
... perhaps is a special time.

And sometimes we even feel that the turning has begun.
But we are unsure of the nature of the turning,
and we are unsure of what it means for ourselves and even for our work.

And even more we ask how do we make the road together?
What are scholars and civil society leaders and public officials and funding agencies and artists and students for in this age?
What is the use of our power to read the world?

Do we have the skills to support the reenchantment of the earth.
If you would be a person for the turning, make your work capable of answering the challenge of apocalyptic times, even if this means sounding apocalyptic.

You are Gandhi, you are Martin Luther King, you are Mandela, you are Wangari Mathaai, you are Audre Lorde, you are Neruda, you are Pasolini, you are Walter Rodney, you are every voice from every part of the earth, you can conquer the conquerors with your words,
... and with your new knowledge.

If you would be a turner, write living works.
Be a scholar from outer space, sending articles  to the journal of the new world rising, to a great new editor, an Indigenous woman, who cries out for contributions to this new reality and she does not tolerate academic bullshit.

If you would be a turner, experiment with all manner of words, all forms of representations of the new day dawning, of theatre and painting,  of poetry, erotic broken grammars, ecstatic religions, heathen outpourings speaking in tongues, bombastic public speech, automatic scribbling’s,  surrealist sensings, found sounds, rants and raves... to create your own limbic, your own voice.

If you would be a turner, don’t just sit there.
These are not the times of sedentary occupations; this is not a ‘take you seat’ time in history.
Stand up and let them have it.
Have a wide-angle vision, each look a world glance.
Express the vast clarity of the outside world, the sun that sees us all, the moon that strews its shadow upon us, quiet garden ponds, willows where the hidden thrush sings, dusk falling along the river banks, and the great spaces that open out upon the sea… high tide and the heron’s call…

And the people,
the people...
yes the people all around the world...
all around our wild and loving earth,
the people speaking Babel tongues.

Give voice...
give voice to all of them.

Retenez la date! La Région des Pays de la Loire accueillera les 19 et 20 septembre 2013 le 9e Congrès de l’Association des Régions de France.
Réunis pendant deux jours à La Cité, Nantes Events Center, les élus régionaux dialogueront avec tous ceux qui constituent leurs principaux partenaires et interlocuteurs au quotidien : élus d’autres collectivités, représentants de l’Etat, syndicalistes, chefs d’entreprise, universitaires, enseignants, chercheurs, experts, intellectuels…
Parmi les intervenants,

• Guillaume Pepy (SNCF)
• Nicolas Dufourcq (Bpifrance)
• Carole Couvert (CFE-CGC)
• Jean-Pierre Sueur (président de la Commission des Lois du Sénat),
• Marie-Françoise Pérol-Dumont (députée, présidente du conseil général de la Haute-Vienne)
• Jean Pisani-Ferry (Commissaire général à la stratégie et à la prospective)
• Jean-Noël Jeanneney (historien, ancien président de la BNF et de Radio France)
  
• Hervé Le Bras (INED)
  
• Dominique Rousseau (professeur de droit constitutionnel à l’université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
  
• Bernadette Groison (FSU) …
  

… Ont déjà confirmé leur présence !

Date: 6 Sep 2013
Start Time: 10:00 am
Location/venue: Fielder Centre, University of Hertfordshire, UK
This free one-day discussion meeting will explore challenges facing the sector in relation to assuring quality whilst also enabling quality enhancement and innovation through technology enhanced learning (TEL). We will be considering the rapid increase in the development of MOOCs (Massive Online open courses) and the impact of the Key Information Set (KIS) requirements on UK Higher Education Institutions.
Technologies impact on all aspects of the learning process, including teaching, assessment and communication. In light of changes in technologies and the changing role of e-learning within higher education, guidance and policies associated with quality assurance and quality enhancement of technology enhanced learning (TEL) need to be considered and reviewed.
The day will include; a discussion on the quality issues associated with MOOCs and feedback from a MOOC student; Michael Hamlyn, Director of Academic Enhancement at Staffordshire University. The afternoon will focus on the KIS requirements and will include presentations from Catherine Benfield, Head of Business Development at the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA), and Moira Sutton from the International Centre for Guidance Studies (iCeGS), School of Education at the University of Derby. Catherine and Moira have been involved in the early evaluations of the KIS and will present findings from their respective reports regarding Institutional and User perspectives. The presentations will be followed by discussions about the KIS requirements which focus on face to face contact hours with little consideration of how institutions and academics use technology to guide and support students. The issues were recently highlighted by the JISC following the publication of a Student Academic Experience survey from Which? And the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI). Actively seeking your contributions to the QAQE debate, the day will include networking opportunities and participatory sessions to explore practitioner needs.
Attendance at the conference is free - there is no registration fee
Programme:

10.00-10.15 Registration and Coffee

10.15-10.20 Welcome

10.20-11.30 MOOCs and Quality Issues - QAQE Steering Group

11.30-11.45 Refreshments

11.45-12.15 Experiences of MOOCs – Michael Hamlyn, Director of Academic Enhancement, Staffordshire University

12.15-13.00 Discussion of MOOCs – Quality Issues and challenges for sector

13.00-13.45 Lunch

13.45-14.00 Key Information Sets - QAQE Steering Group

14.00-14.30 Early evaluation of KIS; Institutional perspectives - Catherine Benfield

Head of Business Development, Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA)

14.30-15.00 Early evaluation of KIS; User experiences - Moira Sutton, International Centre for Guidance Studies(iCeGS) School of Education, University of Derby

15.00-15.15 Refreshments

15.15-16.00 Discussion of KIS - risks and benefits associated with TEL

16.00 Close of conference

Contact email

• Helen Barefoot