ACA Secretariat: Newsletter

IDP Australia co-hosts AIEC

IDP Australia, in conjunction with the International Education Association of Australia (IEAA) welco...

New ACA member APA celebrates Tempus in the Baltics

To celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Tempus programme in the Baltic States, an internation...

ACA annouces 2008 event calendar

Mark these dates! – ACA seminars and conference in 2008 ACA is pleased to announce its 2008 events ...

SI: Survey on foreign students in Sweden

Eight out of ten students from abroad would recommend others to study in Sweden. According to a surv...

IPK and the Global School initiative

The Swedish Government has just decided that the International Programme Office for Education and Tr...

CampusFrance: New Quality Services Charter for foreign students

The French authorities have recently introduced a new quality charter to ensure the highest quality ...

ACA Newsletter Survey: last call

The ACA Secretariat is carrying out a survey on the ACA Newsletter – Education Europe amongst its re...

In memoriam: Judy Powell

On 30 September, Judy Powell died. Judy had, for many years, represented the British Council in the ...

Austrian medical student quotas: EC to refrain from legal action

The European Commission will suspend legal action against Austria over its unlawful cap on foreign u...

More bad news for Lisbon: EU research spending lags

According to the 2007 EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard, an EU sponsored report listing th...

Luring high skilled labour: the Blue Card

Triggered by Europe’s persistent concern with its demographic future in respect to Lisbon Process ob...

Final ECJ ruling on German student grants

The European Court of Justice has made a final ruling that Germany has to provide education and trai...

European Parliament signs off on EQF

The European Parliament has voted in support of the European Qualifications Framework (EQF), a ‘tran...

Critiques of the EC green paper on the European Research Area

Earlier this year the European Commission published a green paper on the European Research Area, bas...

New breath for EU-Canada programme

Eleven new transatlantic projects in the framework of the European Commission supported EU-Canada pr...

EU countries struggle to meet Lisbon objectives

European education and training is unlikely to meet the targets set in the education-related pa...

Study on the socio-economic impact of mobility for learning purposes

The main purpose of the contract is to realise a European-wide survey of former participants in EU-f...

The impact of ICT and new media on language learning

The main emphasis of this study should be to investigate the possibilities of ICT-supported learning...

Data collection on socio-economic background of learners

The specific objective of this feasibility study is to look at the existing national and internation...

Multilingualism and creativity

On the basis of existing research and scientific literature, including practical examples and empiri...

Efficiency and effectiveness of public spending on tertiary education

The overall objective of the study is to carry out analyses of the efficiency and effectiveness of p...

Lifelong Learning Programme — Call for proposals 2008

The Lifelong Learning Programme applies to all types and levels of education and vocational educatio...

FP7 Capacities programme - International Cooperation

This call supports the coordination of national policies and activities of member states and associa...

Study on European terminology in adult learning

The overall objective of this contract is to support the European Commission in monitoring and analy...

Education made to order in Finland

The Finnish Government submitted its proposal for an amendment to the Universities and Polytechnics ...

UNESCO General Conference: Education and development focus

The 34th session of the UNESCO General Conference, which every two years brings together the member ...

Berkeley Goes YouTube

Further expanding public access to its intellectual riches through one of the most popular Web desti...

Italian budget: boost for universities and foreign researchers

The Italian government’s draft budget for 2008 will bring more money to universities and research. A...

Another round for the German Excellence Initiative

“A new chapter in the history of science” was being written, according to German Minister for ...

Back to school for inactive Greek students

Greek university students who have drifted out of the system now have a second chance. Due to a new ...

News from Africa: AIDS and teachers, UK cooperation

Ever since the 2001 Kelly Report (Challenging the Challenger) several African institutions have voic...

Germany debates migrant integration through education

A report carried out by a German research institute (Sinus Sociovision) produced some important find...

A new voice for UK students: first minister of students appointed

The UK is taking a creative approach to making the government more accountable to student needs. Lor...

New education ministers for Norway

When Jens Stoltenberg formed his second government in 2005, he rearranged some of the ministries.&nb...

UNESCOs Global Education Digest

The UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) has just published the 2007 issue of the Global Education ...

UNESCOs Education Counts

UNESCO just came out with the 2007 issue of the Word Education Indicators (WEI). Entitled Education ...

Key Challenges to the Academic Profession

Kogan, Maurice & Teichler, Ulrich (eds.) Key Challenges to the Academic Profession. Internationa...

Looking Back to Look Forward. Analyses of Higher Education after the Turn of the Millenium

Kehm, Barbara M. (ed.): Looking Back to Look Forward. Analyses of Higher Education after the Turn of...

Changing Conditions for Academic Work and Careers in Select Countries

William & Teichler, Ulrich (eds.) The Changing Conditions for Academic Work and Careers in Selec...

Upcoming events

5-10 November 20075th European Forum 2007: "Continuing Engineering Education (CEE) and Continui...

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