Catégorie: Benchmarking
Piccoli firm over teaching benchmark
By Josephine Tovey, Amy McNeilage. NSW Education Minister Adrian Piccoli has refused to back away from his plans to set benchmarks for new teachers based on HSC results, despite universities saying they may not implement the plan. Universities threw their support behind a Commonwealth...
Seeing academic disciplines as brands
B y Iain Woodhouse . I used to think that being in an academic discipline was like standing
in the corner of a room. When you are in it you know you are and so does
everyone else. But once you start to drift… it’s not so clear whether
you are in or...
Towards a Benchmark on the Contribution of Education and Training to Employability
By Christelle Garrouste. Towards a Benchmark on the Contribution of Education and Training to Employability: Methodological Note .
INTRODUCTION
“Given the importance of enhancing employability through education and training in order to meet current and future labour market...
Benchmark à l'échelle européenne des structures de coopération interuniversitaire - Universités de l'Ouest (RUOA)
Comment contribuer, à l'échelle européenne, à une meilleure lisibilité et articulation des activités des « Universités de l'Ouest » alors même que l'on assiste à une multiplication des structures de coopération...
International ranking systems cannot constitute the basis for benchmarking of Indian institutions
By Rashmi r Parida, New Delhi. International ranking systems cannot constitute the basis for benchmarking of Indian institutions. This information was given by the Minister of State for Human Resource Development, Dr. Shashi Tharoor in Rajya Sabha today.
Minister Tharoor said that there...
HEA workshop brings together universities from Australia and the UK
The HEA is funding a workshop to guide academic promotion policy and practice in both the UK and Australia.
The benchmarking workshop takes place at the University of Tasmania (UTAS) and will bring together leading academics from Newcastle University, the University of Leicester, the...
Rethinking education: JRC's monitoring and benchmarking support
Skills are key to productivity and Europe needs a radical rethink on how
education and training systems can deliver the skills needed for the
labour market. To meet this challenge the European Commission launched
on 20 November 2012 a new strategy called Rethinking Education .
This...
University rankings and system benchmarking reach similar results
B y Benoît Millot . University International Rankings, or UIRs, have become a reality. And
despite their shortcomings and the rise of resistance against them, they
are likely to stick around.
Critics of UIRs target methodological weaknesses such as bias in favour
of...
Internal Quality Assurance and Benchmarking
This report is based on the annual ENQA Internal Quality Assurance
seminar on the theme of Learning from each other – using benchmarking to
develop IQA that was held on 16-17 June 2011 in Helsinki, Finland.
It presents a general overview of the benchmarking theme and discusses
...
Benchmarking employability of young graduates
This benchmark will be the reference level of European average
performance on the share of employed graduates from education and
training and will help monitoring progress towards the targets set by the Europe 2020 strategy.
Based on the proposal presented by the Commission in May...
Benchmarking in Higher Education
International Benchmarking-Conference Seminar III/7 ----- 13. bis 14.09.2012. Contact:
Dr. Harald Gilch .
Conference venue: Industrial trade union Mining, chemistry, energy (IG BCE - Industriegewerkschaft Bergbau, Chemie, Energie) Königsworther Platz 6 30159 Hannover...
Branding in higher education - just how feasible is distinctiveness?
In competitive times, universities are being encouraged to create more distinct brand identities. But how compatible is this with the existing measures of excellence?
At last week's CASE Europe conference on distinctiveness in higher education , co-hosted by the Distinct Project ,
...
EU ministers raise graduate employability benchmark
By Marguerite-Jeanne Deschamps. The European Union’s Council of Ministers has approved a new
employability benchmark of 82% of EU graduates being employed within
three years of leaving education and training by 2020. The benchmark, which applies to 20- to 34-year-old graduates, is...
RUOA benchmark project - the identification of interuniversity cooperation structures in Europe
The Network of Universities of the Western Atlantic (RUOA), a
French non-profit organisation of 10 universities, has recently launched
a project called “EU benchmark of interuniversity cooperation
structures”, which will run from February 2012 to December 2013.
The project...
Strong strategies for competitive universities
Europe's competitiveness lies in its capacity to innovate and transfer knowledge to society for economic growth. More than ever before the triangle of Education, Research and Innovation is crucial. Higher Education institutions know they have a crucial role to play in the new EU 2020 strategy...
Arab educators highlight need for clear benchmarks
By Iman Sherif. Shaikh Nahyan Bin Mubarak Al Nahyan said the importance
of higher education has given prominence to commissions
and associations of academic licensing and accreditation.
Abu Dhabi: Establishing clear principles and benchmarks for quality education was the focus of the...
The distinctiveness gap: do students see the difference between universities?
By Anne Gwinnett. Oxford Brookes University's Anne Gwinnett discusses the findings of a new Distinct project survey that asked vice-chancellors about distinctiveness. Distinctiveness
is another word for identity. It concerns the values you hold, the
culture in which you do things and...
Benchmarking group on internationalisation
Our "Benchmarking in European Higher Education
activities are designed to improve the use of benchmarking in higher
education. Benchmarking is a powerful management tool designed to help
modernise higher education management and to promote the attractiveness
of European Higher...
EU education benchmarks – good progress, but not enough
A new European Commission report , on Progress towards the common European objectives in education and training – Indicators and benchmarks 2010/2011 , highlights that out of the five EU education benchmarks set for 2010 –
on early school leavers, low achievement in...
Benchmarking Conference
Benchmarking Conference - Facing the rankings: Using benchmarking tools for strategic positioning, Vienna, Austria (20-21 January 2011). A leading conference with practical workshops and plenty of networking opportunities.
With the increasing rise of rankings of...

