esna - Bulletin N°132 - 25 April 2012

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THE INGLORIOUS END OF AN EDUCATION MINISTER Josef Dobeš and Czech higher education reforms

‘E’ FOR EUROPE TO BECOME ‘E’ FOR EVERYWHERE European scientific agencies to experience benefits of foreign input

EUROPE: CITIES ATTRACT THE HIGHLY EDUCATED Level of education in the countryside likely to be lower

EU PROJECT TO COMBAT STUDENT UNEMPLOYMENT Organisations and companies are to benefit

AUSTRIA: STUDENT PROTEST FIZZLES OUT IN VIENNA Rector neutralises student protests by embracing them

FRANCE: NEW HOTEL TRAINEE SCHEME FOR YOUNG PEOPLE Hotel operator Accor to work with French Ministry of Education

ITALY: TRIBUTES TO RITA LEVI MONTALCINI Italian Nobel Prize winner celebrates 103rd birthday

MALTA: BAD MARKS FOR EDUCATION REFORMS High investments didn’t bring expected results, says think-tank

MONTENEGRO: TOO MANY STUDENTS? Cull of student numbers is necessary, warns rector

SPAIN: TUITION FEES TO INCREASE BY HALF Inefficient research Professors also under attack

SWITZERLAND: UNIVERSITIES WITH A LITTER PROBLEM How to educate students to keep their environment clean

NATIONAL INNOVATION AND THE ACADEMIC RESEARCH ENTERPRISE PUBLIC POLICY IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE

HANDbOOk OF COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY TEACHING A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE

UNIVERSITIES IN THE kNOWLEDGE ECONOMY HIGHER EDUCATION ORGANISATION AND GLOBAL CHANGE

UNIVERSITY bUDGETS REPORT 2012

FOSTERING AND MEASURING ‘THIRD MISSION’ IN HIGHER ED.

MObILE TALENTS? THE STAYING INTENTIONS OF INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS IN FIVE EU COUNTRIES

ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION AT SCHOOL IN EUROPE

THE Uk R&D LANDSCAPE

Swiss students enjoy waste

Some academics see this as Dobeš jumping ship before he was pushed; since months academics had been calling for his resignation. Peter Gru-lich, dean of the Faculty of the Arts in Hradec Králové, was one of them. “Minister Dobeš clearly cannot cope in his role and I ask him to resign,” he wrote in response to Dobeš’ planned higher education reforms. A week after his resignation, Dobeš returned in an advisory role, but he was gone within a few days after local media got their claws into him. Dobeš then failed to pay membership fees for his party Věci Veřejné (Public Affairs) and seems to have disappeared from political life for the time being.

Officially, by the end of March, Josef Dobeš resigned in protest at the government’s austerity measures. After promising to raise teachers’ salaries by 4.5bn Crowns (180m Euros), the government then told him to cut the education budget by the same amount. “I can’t image taking the money away from teachers now,” he said, and also warned that universities were deeply underfinanced and he could not strip them of money either. After being asked to freeze a further 2.5 billion Crowns, he said in his resignation statement that he had “decided to draw personal responsibility and resign.” Unofficially, Dobeš was also facing a lawsuit from the Czech Academic Commission over the Pilsen law faculty scandal

and many academics were calling for his departure over his unpopular uni-versity reforms. Seemingly, his close relationship with President Vaclav Klaus, who described him as “the best post-communist education minister”, was not enough to save him.

Dobeš had previously faced pro-blems over withdrawing money from EU coffers, and in January stated that he would leave government if he could not overturn the European Commission’s suspension on with-drawing EU funds of up to 53bn Crowns (2.2bn Euros). Czech MEP Jan Brezina said: “The

European Commission starts to con-sider the situation at the Education Ministry desperate and it sees no chance of a fundamental improvement…”, while Czech ambassador to the EU Milena Vicenova told the press: “The EC criticises us for an insufficient drawing of money, the choice of pro-jects, shortcomings in tenders and insufficient control of auditors. The frequent changes in the posts of clerks assigned to administer the programme is also a problem.” Dobeš’ resignation, then, only served to vindicate the European Commission, as the Czech Republic is now facing the prospect of appointing its fourth education minister in as many years.

The university reforms proposed by Dobeš were also negatively perceived and led to February’s ‘Week of Unrest’, in which students from campuses across the country staged marches, meetings and public lectures in protest at tuition fees and changes to how universities operate. Some 10,000 students pro- tested in Prague alone, around 20,000 nationwide. In what organisers are calling the biggest student marches since the fall of Communism in 1989, the national anti-government protests in Prague on 21st April against general government austerity measures in the health care, welfare, tax and pension systems also contained a large con-tingent of students protesting against tuition fees. Professor Jan Koucký of

Charles University explains: “Perhaps the weakest point of the proposed cuts is that they are not focused on [specific] areas only, they are uniform across the board, hitting all chapters of the budget with the exception of the so-called mandatory expenses. And of course, when mandatory expenses have been exempted, education has the largest chapter and hence the biggest cuts.”

Rectors are also protesting against under-funding, saying that introducing an ‘enrolment fee’ of between 3,000 and 3,500 Crowns per semester would

never make up for the deficit which the billions of Crowns of cuts will cause to the higher education sector. “The average financing per university student should not keep falling,” said Vaclav Hampl, Rector of Charles University, to the Prague Monitor. “It has been falling for five years, having reached the level under which universities will not be able to ensure the quality of education.”

The Czech Republic’s current diffi- culties are symptomatic of a Europe-wide economic crisis, while govern-ment austerity measures have been introduced in many debt-ridden coun-tries. As opposed to the Serbs, who held representatives of the Ministry of Education hostage in tuition fee protests, the actions of the Czech students seem fairly peaceful in comparison. Former education minister Dobeš seems to be at the heart of the problem, but as the latest education minister in rapid succession, the answer must be more intrinsic than this. Professor Milos Havelka of Charles Uni-versity suggeststhat Dobeš’ appointment as education minister,despite having little experience of the school system, signalled the government’s lack of suitable persona-lities for the role.

The appoint-ment of the new education minister is expected

this week, but will this person be able to undo such deep-seated problems?

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THE INGLORIOUS END OF AN EDUCATION MINISTERJosef Dobeš and Czech higher education reforms

It’s been a turbulent couple of months for the world of higher education in the Czech Republic: first up is the ‘Week of Unrest’, which saw thousands of students on the streets. Then former Education Minister Josef Dobeš ‘illegally’ attempted to prolong the accreditation of the University of Pilsen’s law faculty, despite an independent committee having already taken the decision to close it down due to widespread corruption. Less than a week later, Dobeš resigns.

by Harriet Bailey

“He jumped ship before he was pushed ...”

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Nature article

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and comment, 18-04-2012

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Press release, European Commission, 17-04-2012

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Press release of Statistics Sweden, 18-04-2012

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Press release of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation,

20-04-2012 (in German)

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‘E’ FOR EUROPE TO BECOME ‘E’ FOR EVERYWHERE

In light of the financial crisis, European scientific agencies are joining forces with countries from Asia and South America in order to gain extra funding and to raise their status and the quality of their research. These new partnerships are beneficial for all parties, the science journal Nature argues: “The new members get plenty in return, benefiting from the prestige associated with international collaborations and the training offered to their scientists.”Last month, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) admitted Israel as an associate member – the first non-European country in the organisation’s 50-year history. Serbia and Turkey are expected to follow suit. Rolf-Dieter Heuer, the lab’s director-general,

said that the goal is to “redefine the ‘E’ in CERN from ‘Europe’ to ‘everywhere’.” Brazil is soon expected to join the European Southern Observatory (ESO), bringing with it around one-third of the €1.1billion budget for construction of the state-of-the-art, 40-metre European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT).

EUROPE: CITIES ATTRACT THE HIGHLY EDUCATED

Large cities are the main destinations for highly-educated people, as shown in two contemporary studies from Sweden and Germany.According to Statistics Sweden, the majority of municipalities with the highest level of education are in Stockholm County. Outside the metropolitan areas, inhabitants are more likely to just have a primary education.The high level of education in the Stockholm area is largely explained by the region’s strong labour market, which offers many positions for highly-qualified people. Many posts are in the areas of financial operations, business services, education, research and public administration.A ranking by the German Humboldt Foundation indicates a similar agglomeration of top-scientists in big cities. Among 4500 researchers funded by Humboldt scholarships or prizes in the last five years, Berlin and Munich were the most attractive places to work (and live), followed by renowned smaller university cities like Bonn, Heidelberg or Freiburg. The presence of world-class universities and research institutes is supposedly the factor most likely to affect their choice.

EU PROJECT TO COMBAT STUDENT UNEMPLOYMENT

The European Commission has launched the project ‘We Mean Business’ in order to increase the number of traineeship placements and improve cooperation between students and companies. The campaign is part of a move intended to fight against high unemployment in Europe, and to prepare students for the future by equipping them with more skills and qualifications. This should, in turn, enable them to find jobs more easily. The goal of the campaign is to raise awareness of employers who do not have a history of taking on apprentices, it is targeted to chambers of commerce, regional development agencies, business support organisations and companies. Traineeships should also bring benefits to companies, by enabling them to identify potential future employees who could, with their fresh ideas, play a key role in their future productivity and competitiveness.

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ESNA’s news section provides an easy-to-use format to learn about the latest developments in European Higher Education. The news are selected by our team from thousands of sources and drafted to provide you with the most comprehensive overview of events.

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AUSTRIA: STUDENT PROTEST FIZZLES OUT IN VIENNA

The situation has cooled down after recent student protests at the University of Vienna, and observers have praised Rector Heinz Engl’s crisis management.Last Thursday, 300 students occupied the rector’s office and the main lecture theatre in protest against tuition fees and the planned closure of the Bachelor degree in International Development.Rector Engl reacted quickly, first ordering security to block the entrances to avoid students being able to prepare for an overnight occupation and then inviting them to discuss the issue. At 10pm the police vacated the building, which remained closed over the weekend, and exams were postponed.Observers noticed that the rector neutralised the protest by showing understanding for the students’ complaints and by joining in with the criticism of the education ministry.

FRANCE: NEW HOTEL TRAINEE SCHEME FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

More than 3,500 traineeships per year will be offered by the international hotel operator Accor, as summarised in the framework of the five-year partnership with the French education ministry.The partnership outlines both parties’ decision to cooperate in enhancing the appeal of hotel industry operations, while at the same time boosting the efficiency of professional training.To aid the recruitment and professionalisation of young people, Accor has committed to organising recruitment preparation workshops and practical work sessions inside schools. They will also provide educational material and a two-day training course for 30 teachers on the hotel industry’s changing professions.Accor – with nearly 150,000 employees in 90 countries – founded a corporate university in 1985, and trains 135,000 students on 17 campuses.

ITALY: TRIBUTES TO RITA LEVI MONTALCINI

European dignitaries have stepped up to offer their congratulations to one of Italy’s leading figures in science. President Giorgio Napolitano and EU Vice-President Gianni Pittella have both sent birthday greetings to the 103 year-old Rita Levi Montalcini, Italian Nobel Prize winner for medicine in 1986. Pittella says: “We owe much to Prof. Levi Montalcini – she is one of Italy’s best expressions of our contribution to scientific thought and of medical progress at the service of humanity.”Born on 22 April 1909 to a Jewish family in Turin, during World War II she worked secretly in a laboratory she built in her bedroom. In 1943, Montalcini and her family were forced to flee to the mountains and finally to Florence, where they spent the rest of the war in hiding. Between 1947 and 1977 she worked at the Department of Zoology at Washington University in the USA. She was granted one of Italy’s highest honours in 2001, when she was made Senator for Life.In recent weeks, Montalcini has been a vocal proponent of access to funds for research which are in danger of being removed under Italian labour reforms, saying that those who have the right qualifications, and not just the right friends, should be supported (see ESNA Bulletin N°128 – 28-03-2012).

MALTA: BAD MARKS FOR EDUCATION REFORMS

Although Malta regards education as a top policy priority, and the education budget has risen by nearly 14 percent in the last year, the outcome has been poor, an independent think-tank has admonished. As the general election approaches, the Maltese think-tank Today Public Policy Institute (TPPI) has issued a strategy paper making recommendations for all policy fields. In education, the analysts say that over the past two decades professors have been using old teaching methods, which have prepared students poorly for the practical needs of the labour market. The result is ever-growing graduate unemployment.

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Press release of the protesters, 19-04-2012 (in German)

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Heinz Engl (Photo: Universität Wien)

Press Release by Accor, 18-04-2012

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Rita Levi Montalcini (Photo: RLM)

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TPPI recommends greater cooperation between educational institutions and industry, a re-design of the structure and function of the Faculty of Education, an increase in ICT literacy, and the introduction of regular assessments of the education system.Education Minister Dolores Cristina responded to the criticism, saying that ‘a silent revolution’ is currently taking place, results of which will soon be visible. She also said that the education sector has to be reformed from the bottom up, taking primary school as the first step. Reforms in other education levels should then be successful.

MONTENEGRO: TOO MANY STUDENTS?

The University of Montenegro has too many students this year and is aiming to enrol fewer students next year, says Rector Predrag Miranović.He has also warned that an inevitable consequence of having fewer students will be the raising of tuition fees. Currently, 5,000 graduates are unemployed, and Miranović suggests that student numbers should be limited according to the demands of the labour market. He also argues that increases in tuition fees are to be expected, as they have been at the same level for the last eight years and are in some cases three times lower than at private universities. Head of the Expert Team for Education and Science, Branka Bosnjak, warns against the move. She says that burdens on students are already at an unacceptable level, and they would not be able to afford to attend university in the future. Her solution would be to reform the education sector by reviewing the faculties present in Montenegro and combining or removing some in line with the demands of the labour market. She also highlighted the late implementation of the Strategy of Higher Education, which was adopted in last April but is not being applied in many areas.

SPAIN: TUITION FEES TO INCREASE BY HALF

Universities will not be spared by the Spanish government’s huge budget cuts. As Spain tries to stave off a bail-out, the government is allowing universities to raise their tuition fees by 50 percent and increase classroom sizes by 20 percent.Education Minister José Ingacio Wert argues that regional governments pay close to 85 percent of the full cost of Spanish students’ studies, meaning that the state is providing students with a grant that it can no longer afford. According to the Secretary of State for Education, Montserrat Gomendio, ‘repeaters’, or those students who fail their courses, should pay extra for any additional enrolments into their course, covering up to 100 percent of the cost. Wert has also called for more efficient work from research professors, claiming that a high percentage are being paid for research without carrying it out. One of the ideas being mooted to solve this would be to give more class time to those professors who do no investigation or reduce their wages accordingly.

SWITZERLAND: STUDENTS WITH A LITTER PROBLEM

When one thinks of Switzerland, the image of a cool, clean country, resonating with Alpine freshness, springs to mind. But the reality is the Swiss, and particularly students, are increasingly leaving their litter lying about.Littering, particularly at universities, has become a big problem for waste management, leading to campaigns urging students to throw away their trash and recycle their rubbish. The University of Basel introduced a poster competition in 2010, ended in 2011 after a successful year which saw littering decrease. But according to Chaim Howald, member of the local students’ union SKUBA, “since then, this positive effect has decreased and we are in a similar situation as before.”At the University of Lucerne, they have also started to act on the problem of students’ carelessness. More dustbins have been installed, and they are thinking about adopting a cinema-style message to encourage students to remove their rubbish: instead of ‘Have you switched off your mobile phone?’, ‘Have you disposed of your litter?’ would be used.

Press release of the education ministry, 20-04-2012 (in Spanish)

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Contributions to Bulletin N°132 - April 25, 2012: Tino Brömme (editor-in-chief), Harriet Bailey, Ana Jović, Armin Höhling and Antigoni Avgeropoulou

TPPI strategy paper, 19-04-2012

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In the book review section of your Bulletin, the ESNA newsroom will share with you its reviews and announcements of the latest publications on higher education policy, management and debate.

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UNIVERSITIES IN THE kNOWLEDGE ECONOMY HIGHER EDUCATION ORGANISATION AND GLOBAL CHANGE

While higher education institutions in many countries are often assigned key roles in economic and social policy prescriptions, exactly what those roles are and how they should be carried out are often unclear. Universities and the Knowledge Economy provides a much-needed theoretical and empirical analysis of these functions, taking a critical look at the complex connections between knowledge creation, the knowledge economy, and higher education today.

This volume brings together work on these topics by international experts, reporting and analyzing recent policy developments and research. It shows the significance of the university’s role in the knowledge economy, and the precise roles that it can play. And it presents a range of studies showing how universities interact with other knowledge producers and users, and how these interactions can be managed to achieve the most effective applications of knowledge.

Paul Temple (ed.) Routledge | November 2011 ISBN: 978-0-415-88466-2 264 pages hardback £100.00

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HANDbOOk OF COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY TEACHING A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE

Using a unique global view, this comprehensive volume presents international perspectives on critical issues impacting teaching and learning in diverse higher education environments.

Education experts from around the world share heir perspectives on college and university teaching, illuminating international differences and similarities. The chapters are organized around a model developed by James Groccia, which focuses on seven interrelated variables that must be explored to develop a full perspective of college and university teaching and learning. These interrelated variables include: teacher, learner, learning process, learning context, course content, instructional processes, and learning outcomes. Using this logical model as the organizational structure of the book provides a guide for systemic thinking about what actions one should take, or suggest others take, when planning activities to improve teaching and learning, curriculum development, and assessment.

James E. Groccia et al. (eds.) Sage | March 2012

ISBN: 978-1-412-98815-5 560 pages hardcover £85.00

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David Dill, Frans van Vught (eds.) Johns Hopkins University Press | January 2010

ISBN: 978-0-8018-9374-2 592 pages hardback $70.00

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NATIONAL INNOVATION AND THE ACADEMIC RESEARCH ENTERPRISEPUBLIC POLICY IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE

This volume analyses the impact of public policy on the knowledge economies and higher education systems of OECD countries.Given that innovation is a national economy’s most valuable asset in today’s global marketplace, countries are investing more than ever in academic research, doctoral education, and the process of knowledge transfer. Policymakers now perceive the academic enterprise as a means of sustaining international competitiveness, and newly implemented national innovation policies represent a marked shift away from traditional science and technology policies. The contributors examine this new relationship between higher education and national systems of innovation, posing important questions: How is public policy affecting academic research? How are postsecondary institutions responding? The book concludes with a careful assessment of the effectiveness of current national innovation policy on higher education systems.

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Each copy of your ESNA bulletin will provide information on studies which have captured our attention as pieces that may contribute to our common understanding of higher education. Our priority is to keep ESNA readers at the forefront of the knowledge pool on higher education and provide an arena for the issues raised in these studies to be heard.

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UNIVERSITY bUDGETS REPORT 2012This report gives review of financial situation in all Europe and how did it effect higher education sector in each country. The economic downturn had a negative short-term impact upon public higher education programs and European Universities have been affected in many different ways. But not each country responded same, so Universities who kept their budgets protected or even increasing in countries are mostly based in the Finland, Switzerland , France, Germany and Poland. Meanwhile of course more and more countries have passed extensive austerity packages as part of the general Eurozone crisis, to try to slash their fiscal deficits. Most severely hit over the coming years are the higher education budgets of the southern European countries. This document uses a wider variety of sources including The Financial Times, Bloomberg, and other media outlets, many domestic news agencies, as well as official Government documents Sustainable Universities with wide research on European universities’ financial states.

FOSTERING AND MEASURING ‘THIRD MISSION’ IN HIGHER ED.This document has been prepared by a partnership of Universities funded by the European Commission under the Lifelong Learning scheme. It captures much of the learning achieved on the project, and has to do with the kinds of beneficial impact universities can have on their host societies, and the circumstances that influence the ability of universities to deliver those impacts. The paper is intended to stimulate informed debate, and in relevant cases to stimulate alternative courses of action.

MObILE TALENTS? THE STAYING INTENTIONS OF INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS IN FIVE EU COUNTRIESThis study is analyzing the current situation in five European countries for possible staying of foreign highly educated people in them and finding job. Results shows that foreigners in Germany, France, UK, The Netherlands and Sweden are not enough informed about options for staying and finding job in these countries.

ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION AT SCHOOL IN EUROPEThis report shows that more then half of European countries are currently engaged in a process of educational reforms, which include the strengthening of entrepreneurship education. A total of 31 European countries and 5 regions were surveyed for the report. The scope of this research is primary and general secondary education. The curricula for vocational, technical or commercial schools at secondary level are not included.

THE Uk R&D LANDSCAPEThis is the report on gaining the most value from the UK innovation system, and in particular its university research. It highlights strongly the need to sustain the competitiveness of UK R&D in terms of both quantity and quality and also the variability in the relationship between the UK research base and business. Further-more, it provides an analysis in an international comparative framework, of the conduct of R&D in the UK by the business, government and higher education sectors and of the funding of such R&D from public, private, charitable and overseas sources.

Europaeum | February 2012 English

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E3M Project | January 2012 English

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EACEA | March 2012 English

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Alan Hughes, Andrea MinaCIHE | March 2012

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MPG | April 2012 English

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EUCIS-LLL: SOCIAL INNOVATION FOR ACTIVE INCLUSIONThe European Civil Society platform on lifelong learning (EUCIS-LLL) is organising this annual event, which will tackle and propose innovative ways to combat educational disadvantage and fight youth unemployment. The conference will also provide a specific insight on the opportunities of intergenerational learning, in the context of the current European Year 2012 on Active Ageing and Solidarity between Generations.

TEPE CONFERENCE: GAPS AND QUALITYThe theme of the 6th conference of Teacher Education Policy in Europe (TEPE) is to examine how it can be narrowed the gap between research, policy and practice in order to improve the quality of teaching and learning at all levels of education. A particular focus of the conference will be an analysis of how teachers actually learn and improve their practice.

EUROSTUDENT V: kICk-OFF WORkSHOPThe conference of Eurostudent has as an aim to answer the question: Who is the student of the 21st century? by defining that student should assist in policy, in providing a broad policy-relevant cross-country comparison of data on the social dimension of European higher education and to try to participate in improving the social dimension of higher education in their country.

ESSIE CONFERENCE: SYSTEMIC INNOVATION OF EDUCATIONThe European Society for the Systemic Innovation of Education (ESSIE) is organising this 2nd annual conference in order to share the exciting knowledge about Systemic Innovation throughout all sectors of Education. It brings together all distinctive individuals from the Society from many different education sectors. The Convention is a occasion for open interaction, learning and adoption, and provides the opportunity to explore new visions of the future.

LIHE’S INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUMThis will be the 7th international residential symposium organised by the International Academic Association for the Enhancement of Learning in Higher Education (LIHE), especially designed to have a group of international experts join forces on finalising a manuscript for international publication. This publication wants to encourage a move from a discipline-based view to a learning-based view on higher education.

EDULEARN12'S CONFERENCE: NEW LEARNING TECHNOLOGIESEDULEARN12 is an international forum for those who wish to present their projects and discuss the latest innovations and results in the field of New Technologies in Education, E-learning and methodologies applied to Education and Research.

ICkET: RELATION bETWEEN UNIVERSITIES AND INDUSTRYThe International Conference on Knowledge and Education Technology (ICKET) is the main annual event aimed at improving relations between the Universities and the industry. Scientists, scholars, engineers and students from the Universities all around the world and the industry will have opportunity to present their research activities as also to follow from others.

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