Source: AHELO slideshow (see below) as translated by Wordle
Archive for January, 2010
AHELO – key words
Posted in AHELO, tagged AHELO, OECD on January 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
OECD launches first global assessment of higher education learning outcomes
Posted in AHELO, learning outcomes, Quality Assurance, tagged AHELO, Assessment of Higher Education Learning Outcomes, CHEA, Collegiate Learning Assessment, Council for Aid to Education, Jamie P. Merisotis, Martha Kanter, OECD on January 28, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Editor’s note: the slideshow below about the Assessment of Higher Education Learning Outcomes (AHELO) initiative, and the associated press release, were kindly provided to GlobalHigherEd by Richard Yelland, Head of the Education Management and Infrastructure Division (Directorate for Education), OECD. Coverage of the AHELO launch yesterday, at the Council for Higher Education Accreditation’s 2010 Annual [...]
TUNING USA: Echoes and translations of the Bologna Process in the US higher education landscape
Posted in Bologna process, Tuning Process, USA, tagged Bologna process, European Commission, Lisbon Strategy, Lumina Foundation, TUNING USA on January 26, 2010 | 4 Comments »
As noted in two earlier GlobalHigherEd entries (‘Bologna: beyond 2010 and over the Ocean – but where to? On new Bologna reports and C. Adelman’s last essay‘ by Pavel Zgaga; ‘Tuning USA’: reforming higher education in the US, Europe style‘ by Susan Robertson) the US-based Lumina Foundation is sponsoring an action-oriented project (TUNING USA) on the relevancy [...]
Is a UK funding crisis an effective mechanism to spur on the ‘education as a global growth industry’ development agenda?
Posted in export education, service exports, UK, tagged Gordon Brown, Peter Mandelson, Russell Group, services exports, trade in services on January 15, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Amidst a discursive struggle this week over the state of finances for higher education and research in the UK, which reached a crescendo two days ago (e.g., see ‘Universities face meltdown – and all of Britain will suffer‘; ‘Higher education will be ‘on its knees’ after cuts‘), I could not help but note what Prime [...]
Graphic feed: Cultivating regenerative medicine innovation in China
Posted in Capacity building, China, Science & technology, stem cell research, tagged China, R&D, regenerative medicine, S&T, stem cells on January 9, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Source: McMahon, D.S., Thorsteinsdóttir, H., Singer, P.A., and Daar, A.S. (2010) ‘Cultivating regenerative medicine innovation in China’, Regenerative Medicine, 5(1): 35-44.
‘Generation crunch’ (or, what is happening to graduate jobs and the ‘graduate premium’ in the UK)
Posted in learning, OECD, universities, tagged England, graduate employment, graduate premium, learning, OECD, tuition fees, United Kingdom, universities on January 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Early this week, the Centre for Enterprise (CFE) in the UK released their report Generation Crunch: the demand for recent graduates on SME. The report is essentially concerned with the employment prospects for university graduates in Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and makes for particularly interesting reading. Focusing on SME’s as sources of employment is [...]
Graphic feed: launching the Global Institutional Profiles Project
Posted in Audit culture, benchmarking, bibliometrics, Rankings & Ranking Resources, tagged Audit culture, bibliometrics, rankings, Thomson Reuters, Times Higher Education, University Rankings on January 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Source: Thomson Reuters, 6 January 2010.
Brazil’s new Latin American and global integration universities launched
Posted in Uncategorized, Foreign Students, Capacity building, Cross-Border Higher Education, Regional development, Consortia, Latin America, universities, Saudi Arabia, Brazil, Interregionalism, soft power, Public-private, new universities, branch campuses, Emerging higher education systems, Regional universities, tagged Foreign Students, universities, Regional development, Latin America, Saudi Arabia, new universities, KAUST, Cross-Border Higher Education, Brazil, Regionalism, soft power, Dubai, Interregionalism, Capacity building, Consortia, UNILA, UNILAB, UNIAM, Public-private, Regional universities on January 3, 2010 | 6 Comments »
As 2009 drew to a close, Brazil’s Senate granted official authorization for the establishment of a new, very different kind of university in Brazil – the Federal University for Latin America Integration, otherwise known as UNILA. Unanimously passed on December 16th 2009, the Bill now enables UNILA to formally announce itself as a university, instead [...]
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