News from ACA
ACA discusses Africa in a seminar on development cooperation this fall
Faced with the paradox that in many African countries less than five percent of high school graduate...
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Staff changes at the Secretariat
This month, ACA Deputy Director Ulf Lie left the Secretariat after a one-year collaboration. ACA war...
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European Policy
Life after "deadline"? Bologna in the next decade
2010 is approaching fast, and in less than two years the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) shoul...
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Commission couples with South Eastern Europe
The European Commission intends to help the South Eastern European region to take its rightful place...
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European researchers in motion
The European Union rightly strives to level out member states' ability to attract foreign scientists...
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Joint Declaration with Israel on education and training
On the occasion of an official visit to Israel, the European Commissioner in charge of Education, Tr...
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5th report on Lisbon in education: overall progress slow and shadowed by low literacy
On July 10th the European Commission published its 2008 Indicators and Benchmarks Report on member s...
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Joint research programming to help maximize use of resources
The European Union’s member states should set up partnerships in a number of key research areas of...
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Technical cooperation agreement with New Zealand
On 16 July, the European Community signed a Science & Technology (S&T) cooperation agreement...
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National Education and the Global Context
Concerted action in Africa
The African Network for the Internationalisation of Education (ANIE) will be launched via a major op...
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Does money make the university world go around?
In a recently published paper in its Outcomes from institutional audit-series, the UK Quality Assura...
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Operation Campus ready for take-off
As announced in last month’s edition of the ACA Newsletter - Education Europe, the remaining ...
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Ranking à la carte
University rankings have been the source of much dispute. Their methodologies, if not their very exi...
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Germany invests in transnational education by establishing joint universities
Germany and Turkey have agreed to open a joint university in Istanbul by late 2009 to bolster cultur...
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Universities' influence on economy grows in the UK
According to the recent Higher Education - Business and Community Interaction (HE-BCI) survey, UK hi...
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With "Asian Erasmus" towards heart-to-heart trust
Japan’s Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda recently updated the so-called Fukuda Doctrine created in 1977...
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International enrolments stagnate in German higher education
The enrolment of foreign students in Germany is developing somewhat disappointingly. The 2008 editio...
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German higher education: teaching in need of improvement
The German Science and Humanities Council (Wissenschaftsrat) has identified substantial deficiencies...
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Public Tenders and Calls for Proposals in the EU
Tender: Study on impact of Leonardo da Vinci mobility on improvement of VET systems
Public open tender EAC/02/2008 for a study of the Impact of Leonardo da Vinci mobility projects on t...
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Call for proposals: external cooperation window - Asia
In the framework of the External Cooperation Window programme the Educatio, Audiovisual & C...
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Pilot project to support research cooperation between research institutions from EU and China
The Science & Technology Fellowship Programme in China (STF CHINA) offers to researchers from EU...
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European university data collection feasibility study
As provided for in the 2008 science and society work programme, the tenderer will study the feasibil...
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Still open: Grants for actions to develop and implement the European Qualifications Framework (EQF)
The objective of this call for proposals is to award grants to approximately 10-12 proposals submitt...
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Still open: Projects to test and develop the credit system for vocational education and training (ECVET)
Partnerships formed by European, national, regional or sectoral bodies or undertakings working in th...
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Still open: National Lifelong Learning Strategies (NLLS)
The objectives of the call for proposals are:
to support transnational co-operation in the developm...
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Publications
UNESCO: Cross-border higher education: regulation, quality assurance and impact - volumes I & II
Martin, M. (ed.), Cross-border higher education: regulation, quality assurance and impact - volumes ...
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EPI: Student Mobility and Credit Transfer: A National and Global Survey
Junor, S., and Usher, A., Student Mobility and Credit Transfer: A National and Global Survey, Educat...
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IIEP/UNESCO: Globalization of higher education and cross-border student mobility
Vargese, N.V., Globalization of higher education and cross-border student mobility, International In...
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GUNI: Higher Education in the World 3
GUNI, Higher Education in the World 3: Higher Education: New Challenges and Emerging Roles for Human...
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Rand: U.S. Competitiveness in Science and Technology
Galama, T and Hosek, J., U.S. Competitiveness in Science and Technology, RAND Corporation, 2008. ISB...
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Bruegel: Higher aspirations
Aghion, P. et al., Higher aspirations: An agenda for reforming European universities, Bruegel, Bruss...
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Conferences
Upcoming events
17-21 August 2008International Meeting of University Administrators (IMUA): GlobalizationVancouver, ...
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