News from ACA
ACA blooming spring events
This spring, ACA has two events lined up for you, a seminar on academic mobility and the ACA Annual ...
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Building business in Africa
“Entrepreneurs in Africa” is a recently-launched development project which aims to encourage the ins...
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CampusFrance: Catalogue of programmes taught in English
This month, CampusFrance has published the 6th edition of its Programmes Taught in English guide. Th...
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Vietnamese German University – large group of German HEIs establish supporting consortium
As first foreign HEI with the status of a national university in Vietnam, the Vietnamese German Univ...
(+more)European Policy
European Investment Bank on portable study loans
On 22-23 January, a conference hosted by the European Investment Bank (EIB) in Luxembourg turned the...
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European Research Area: Attractive, but...
On 26 January, the European Commission published a report containing the key figures 2008/2009 in sc...
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Education Council on Education and Training beyond 2010
As the deadline for achieving the five benchmarks set for Education and Training in 2010 is swiftly ...
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Impact of Erasmus on higher education institutions and policy
The highly popular Erasmus Programme “has contributed to improving, opening up and modernising both ...
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European Innovation Scoreboard 2008: improved performance
For the eighth time, the European Commission’s Directorate General for Enterprise and Industry has m...
(+more)Public Tenders and Calls for Proposals in the EU
Lifelong Learning Programme 2009 — next deadlines
The European Commission’s Lifelong Learning Programme general call for proposals was launched in Oct...
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Still open: Education cooperation between the EU and Canada
In the context of the European Union - Canada framework for cooperation in higher education, trainin...
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Still open: ATLANTIS Programme for transatlantic cooperation
The European Commission has launched, together with the US Department of Education, a new joint call...
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Still open: Call for proposals for EU and third countries cooperation in 2009-2010
The Erasmus Mundus External Cooperation Window aims at mutual enrichment and better understanding be...
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Call for proposals on cooperation with EU surrounding countries
The second call for proposals under the programme Tempus IV invites the submission of cooperative pr...
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Call for proposals for joint masters and doctorates
The Erasmus Mundus programme's overall aim is to promote European higher education, to help improve ...
(+more)National Education and the Global Context
Finland: Strategic approach to internationalisation
After a year of preparations with seminar series, expert workshops, and a wide web-based open consul...
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Number of foreign students in UK on the rise
The UK Higher Education Statistical Agency (HESA) has released its data on student enrolments a...
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Germany: And the best docent is...
As previously reported, Germany is investing EUR 1.9 billion until 2011 to create ten centres of exc...
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UK - Magical trick for the review of tuition fees
The highly controversial, as the National Union of Students had lobbied intesively against it, UK re...
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New online tool for African research
HERANA Gateway – a new online search portal was launched by the Centre for Higher Education Transfor...
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Backpedalling à la Romania?
The 50 percent salary increase promised to Romanian university lecturers last autumn (see ACA N...
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French lecturers strike against attempts to reform their professional status
Thousands of university lecturers took the streets in France at the beginning of this month in an “u...
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Latvia – severe cuts in state financing of higher education
Faced with the financial crisis, different European countries find different solutions to cope with ...
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Germany: Sorting the wheat from the chaff
A place at a German university is much sought after by foreign applicants. But what about the prospe...
(+more)Publications
International Perspectives on the Governance of Higher Education
Huisman, J. (Ed.) International Perspectives on the Governance of Higher Education. Alternative Fram...
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Open Doors 2008 print version is now available
Open Doors 2008: Report on International Educational Exchange. Institute of International Education ...
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All you ever wanted to know about PISA
OECD. PISA Take the Test: Sample Questions from the OECD's PISA Assessments. OECD Publishing, 2009. ...
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Students and the world of work
Teichler, U. Higher Education and the World of Work: Conceptual Frameworks, Comparative Perspectives...
(+more)Conferences
Upcoming international events
4 March 2009i-graduate Conference: “Attracting International Research Students: Strategy and Practic...
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