Catégorie: International
G8 des ministres de la recherche
Avec ses homologues en charge de la recherche, de la science, de la
technologie et de l'innovation (Allemagne, Canada, Etats-Unis, Italie,
Japon, Royaume-Uni, Russie), et en présence de Máire Geoghegan Quinn, la
Commissaire européenne à la Recherche,...
Avoiding ‘Cultural Arrogance’ With China
By John Haddad. The following is a guest post by John Haddad, an
associate professor of American studies and popular culture
at Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg. He is the author of America’s First Adventure in China: Trade, Treaties, Opium,...
China Has An Incredible Influence On US Higher Education
By Adam Taylor . This morning, the New York Post published a story arguing that
New York University was "booting" blind Chinese activist Chen
Guangcheng from the university after pressure from the Chinese
government. The paper speculates that NYU's plans for a Shanghai...
Preparing the International Platform for Learning Cities (IPLC)
On 4–5 June 2013, the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL), in collaboration with the Korean National Institute for Lifelong Education (NILE) and the Jeju Institute for Lifelong Education, held the 2nd Meeting of the Expert Group for Establishing the International Platform...
Professeur invité: 2- L’enseignement
Blog Educpros de Pierre Dubois . Suite de la chronique Professeur invité. 1. L’accueil . Mirella Giannini, professeur de sociologie à l’université de Naples, dresse un bilan de ses 4 mois d’enseignement dans la Faculté de...
Professeur invité: 1- L’accueil
Blog Educpros de Pierre Dubois . Dimanche 2 juin 2013, aéroport de Baden-Baden, vol direct pour Bari. Mirella Giannini , professeure de sociologie à l’université de Naples, regagne l’Italie après un séjour...
Bail out universities rather than banks?
By Sean Coughlan. World leaders will be gathering in Northern Ireland next week for the G8 summit. Like a bunch of well-dressed people standing around a car that won't start, they will be looking for ideas to revive the spluttering engine of economic growth.
But is it time to think...
Global summit calls on G8 to recognise role of universities in economic recovery
B y David Jobbins . The sixth Global University Summit ,
or GUS, has put the role of universities in economic regeneration
firmly on the agenda for the G8 summit of world leaders in Northern...
Coopération franco-japonaise pour l'enseignement supérieur et la recherche - doubler le nombre d'étudiants japonais d'ici à 2020
Lors de la visite d'Etat du Président de la République au Japon du 6 au 8
juin, deux accords ont été signés, l'un dans le domaine de la science
des matériaux, le second concernant la coopération entre le synchrotron
SOLEIL, le...
Conclusiones Finales: Encuentro Internacional de Educación
El Encuentro
nos deja en este recorrido de temas que afectan a la Educación, muchas
respuestas de expertos y participantes, que compartimos ahora en el site
y que irán formando a lo largo de los 18 meses un verdadero estudio de
investigación sobre...
Board of Investment leads island bid to become HE hub
B y Guillaume Gouges . Mauritius has been showcasing its assets in recent years and is aiming
to become a hub for world-class education and a destination for
international students and institutions. Board...
Film students get a shot of reality at Cannes festival
B y Alecia D McKenzie . Rain, robbery and revelry – these are three of the things for which the 2013 Cannes Film Festival will be remembered. But overlooked in all the headlines about bad weather, stolen...
Foreign Interns Head to China
By Yenni Kwok . Angelika Lisek, a Polish finance student at the University of Glasgow ,
is no stranger to working during the holidays: waiting tables, selling
books door to door or helping her mother at her architecture company.
But she knows that her...
Looking Past China
By Elizabeth Redden . China has in recent years dominated the flow of international undergraduates coming to the United States – but that’s an old story .
A session Thursday at the annual NAFSA: Association of International
Educators...
News from DAAD
Science in the focus of the German Year in Brazil
On 15 May 2013, DAAD President Prof. Margret
Wintermantel together with the Federal President Joachim Gauk
inaugurated the scientific programme of the German Year in Brazil. With a
seminar for alumni on the occasion of the 40 years...
Overseas joint ventures between higher education institutions
By Liz Brassington . Increasingly, higher education institutions are viewing themselves and
their mission on a global, rather than simply a national, scale - as,
indeed, are their students and academic staff. As a result, many are
considering entering into an international joint...
Chinesische Enttäuschungen
Westliche Universitäten gründen gern Filialen in China. Damit wollen sie
neue Studenten gewinnen. Doch in China wird zuweilen ganz anders
gelehrt und gelernt. So kann das Studium in Fernost frustrierend werden.
Das große Haus in Minhang im Westen von Schanghai ist ziemlich...
Where the Citations Are
By Elizabeth Gibney for Times Higher Education . Countries outside the world's elite university systems are better at transforming research capacity into citations, a report suggests. While the U.S. and the U.K. are good at converting research inputs into outputs and are...
L'Agence Universitaire pour la Francophonie (AUF) et les bourses d'études
L 'offre de formation à distance soutenue par l'AUF
Dans le domaine de la formation ouverte et à distance (FOAD), l’Agence universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF) propose un nouvel appel à candidatures pour permettre à des étudiants et à des...
UAE in talks to ease visa requirements to Australia
By
Shane McGinley . Australia is considering relaxing visa requirements for UAE citizens in a bid to boost trade between the two countries and encourage more Emirati students to study at Australian universities, the UAE Foreign Minister has said.
“We have the opportunity to...

