News from ACA
Get your free copy of the new ACA Member Directory
ACA is pleased to announce that the new Directory of ACA Member Organisations is now available. This...
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Ann Verreth new Secretary General of VLHORA
The board of Flemish ACA member VLHORA has appointed Anne Verreth as the new secretary general of th...
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Successful ACA seminar at EAIE conference
The EAIE/ACA Seminar is by now a fixture at the annual conferences of the European Association for I...
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ACA European Policy Seminar on EU-US Higher Education Relations
ACA would like to remind that registrations are still open for what will no doubt be an exciting sem...
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CampusFrance launches new series of international career symposia
Based on the premise that a country’s attractiveness depends to a certain extent on its ability to...
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IIE: Expanding Study Abroad
In response to the growing need to encourage more U.S. students to study abroad and national-level U...
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Second round of Atlantis projects
One year after its launch, the Atlantis programme is proving to be increasingly popular. Fourteen ne...
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EHEFs take on Malaysia
The most recent EHEF (European Higher Education Fair), a project funded under the Commission’s Asi...
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Fueling SMEs: Large investment in R+D partnerships
Fueling SME’s (small medium enterprises) has topped the European Commission’s R&D agenda rec...
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European Commission launches consultation on multilingualism
The Directorate for Education and Culture of the European Commission has launched a consultation on ...
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European Commission to encourage e-skills
On 7 September, the European Commission published a Communication urging action to enhance digital c...
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More trouble for the US: Graduate enrollment and Study Abroad Providers
A recent survey from the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) in the US reveals that though the number ...
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Education at a Glance 2007: higher education pays off
On 18 September, the OECD launched the 2007 edition of its annual publication Education at a Glance....
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Competing for skilled migrants: Work visa reform
On 1 September, the Australian government amended its migration regulations by introducing new work ...
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Turning the tables: Dubai to open branch campuses in India
The HCT, the Association of Higher Colleges of Technology in Dubai, announced its plan to reinforce ...
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Money up for grabs: Dutch university competition
Dutch universities are fuelling up a healthy spirit of competition. The need to compete particularly...
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UNESCO appoints new Assistant Director-General for Education
Nicholas Burnett was appointed UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Education on 5 September. An ec...
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Reform in Slovakia: Realising the Bologna Process
SAIA, one of ACA’s Slovak members, informs us that on 1 September an amendment to the Slovak highe...
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Is Sweden going English?
The August edition of the ACA Newsletter – Education Europe reported about the appointment of Swed...
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Survey: Individual career development and continuing vocational training (CVT)
The EACEA has opened a call for tender on individual career development and continuing vocational tr...
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Erasmus and its impact on excellence in Higher Education in Europe
The European Commission is opening a call for a survey to be carried out on the “Erasmus Programme...
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Information visits to the EC in Brussels
The general aim of this call is to hire a contractor who is able to provide the European Commission'...
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Study on terminology in adult learning and monitoring the sector
The overall objective of this contract is to support the European Commission in monitoring and analy...
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Eurydice: Key Data on Higher Education in Europe – 2007 Edition
Eurydice. Key data on higher education in Europe - 2007 Edition. Brussels: Eurydice, 2007. ISBN 978-...
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New EUA Publication on PhD Programmes
European University Association. Doctoral Programmes in Europe’s Universities. Brussels: EUA, 2007...
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Reverse Brain Drain: Immigration Backlog in the US
Wadhwa, Vivek, Jasso, Guillermina, Rissing, Ben, Gereffi, Gary and Freeman, Richard B., Intellectual...
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OECD and World Bank on Cross-Border Tertiary Education for Development
OECD (in cooperation with the World Bank), Cross-border Tertiary Education: A Way towards Capacity D...
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Council of Europe: Conceptualising qualifications
Bergan, Sjur, Qualifications — Introduction to a concept (Council of Europe higher education serie...
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Strong higher education growth in middle and low-income countries
UNESCO Institute of Statistics: "Education counts - Benchmarking progress in 19 WEI countr...
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Upcoming events
6-12 October 2007International Education Fairs of Turkey (IEFT) Istanbul, TurkeyWeb: http://www.ieft...
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