Go to the Content Thursday, 9 February 2012
Your search for "European University Association" produced 41 items.
| 1. Research funding plans must take the long view | December 8, 2011 |
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Horizon 2020 underlines the importance of increasing investment in research and innovation. The European University Association (EUA) welcomes the European Commission's... | |
| 2. Partners in learning | December 1, 2011 |
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Better links between universities and business are a centrepiece of the European Commission's plans for higher education. The European Commission has unveiled its plans for... |
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| 3. The social network | November 3, 2011 |
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Reform of universities in Europe has so far done little to make them more socially inclusive. Equal access to higher education is shaping up to be a significant talking point... |
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| 4. Education, continued | September 1, 2011 |
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Lifelong learning is a priority for the EU and universities, but it is proving a difficult concept to implement. Lifelong learning has become an important theme in European... |
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| 5. A failure to measure up | July 7, 2011 |
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Schemes to rank universities are being reviewed in a bid to achieve greater transparency. International university league tables are a relatively recent phenomenon,... |
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| 6. Keeping an eye on students | February 3, 2011 |
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Examining a survey that aims to make sure universities keep track of their students while they learn and after they graduate. Most academic programme directors will be able... |
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| 7. Degrees labelled for innovation | January 6, 2011 |
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Why universities are wary about European efforts to bolster industrial research in higher education. The first master's programmes bearing the European Institute of... |
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| 8. Academia tightens belt, considers braces | November 4, 2010 |
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Cuts to state budgets are obliging European universities to pay more attention to other sources of income. With a new academic year under way, universities across Europe are... |
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| 9. Developing a brain trade | October 7, 2010 |
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A new report says universities should play a greater role in development policy and in EU-African co-operation. European universities are pushing for higher education to be... |
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| 10. Any doctors in the factory? | May 6, 2010 |
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Is Europe ready for an industrial PhD? The creation of a European industrial doctorate scheme is moving up the political agenda. Support from the business sector is strong... |
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| 11. Out of love with Europe's bachelors | April 1, 2010 |
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Many universities, students and employers have little faith in the bachelor's degree. One of the fundamental changes brought abo-ut by the Bologna process of higher... |
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| 12. Reform process enters next phase | March 4, 2010 |
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Ten years after the EU set out to establish a European higher-education area, universities and students agree that the hardest phase is only just beginning. When the Bologna... |
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| 13. Universities map the freedom trail | December 3, 2009 |
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Governments agree that universities need more room to develop. A new scorecard will monitor how much independence they are granted. The idea that universities need greater... | |
| 14. Re-launched labels fail to convince students | July 2, 2009 |
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They should help universities compete in a European market, but ‘mobility labels' are struggling for credibility. When Ján Figel', the European commissioner for... |
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| 15. Giving higher education reform the third degree | June 4, 2009 |
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Integrating the PhD into Europe's higher education reform has generated a few challenges. A year after its creation as a forum for universities awarding PhDs, the Council... |
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| 16. Student protests may mar Bologna ministerial meeting | April 2, 2009 |
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Education ministers meeting in Leuven later this month can expect some loud protests. European ministers gathering in Leuven, Belgium, at the end of this month (28-29 April)... |
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| 17. Student anger at plan for university rankings | February 5, 2009 |
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A Europe-wide system for grading higher education institutions proves unpopular. Students have reacted angrily to European Commission plans for a Europe-wide ranking system... | |
| 18. It's the knowledge economy, stupid! | December 4, 2008 |
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Universities hope that the financial crisis will focus minds on research. Universities are hoping to turn the current economic crisis to their advantage, arguing that public... | |
| 19. Attracting students as partners not predators | November 6, 2008 |
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The EU wants to dispel fears in Africa and Asia that Europe is creaming off its brightest students. Attracting foreign students and scholars to European universities has... |
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| 20. Movers & shakers | October 30, 2008 |
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