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February 2012 – 15 February 2012 Developing a sustainable future in international education The implementation of the Knight Review has allowed for opportunity to develop and grow international education in Australia; however it has also put pressure on higher education to effectively manage risk and provide quality assurance. Following the Knight Review it is vital [...]
 At least 15 million college students pursuing higher education will be able to share information, lab experiments and classroom content as the Union cabinet on Tuesday approved a proposal to connect 572 universities, 25,000 colleges and 2,000 polytechnics as part of its mission to promote technology usage in higher education. This approval will merge the [...]
ENGLISH VERSION International conference Managing Quality Teaching in Higher Education Mexicali, Mexico 5-6 December 2011 Organised by the OECD and CETYS University, in co-operation with CONAHEC Core topics Measuring quality teaching Aligning the constituents of quality teaching within the institution Supporting, valuing and rewarding university teaching [...]
New applicants wishing to apply for a research grant to IFS are invited to submit their research application form before either of the dates highlighted below. There will be two time-bound research grant application sessions before the new three programme strategy is adopted in 2012. The deadline for the first session is 9 October 2011, [...]
January 30, 2012 РFebruary 10, 2012 University of Ṣo Paulo Ṣo Paulo, Brazil The goal of this program is to provide scholars of the social sciences with access to high-quality, cutting edge, advanced training in qualitative and quantitative social science methods. The target group is high-potential, upper-level scholars of political science, international relations, and [...]
Women university leaders from the the Americas recently meet at the University of Costa Rica (UCR) to discuss plans to implement a regional “Observatory on Women Leaders in Higher Education”. With the view to planning the strategic lines of action for an observatory on the participation and leadership of women leaders in higher education in [...]
PRME – Principles for Responsible Management Education The mission of the Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) initiative is to inspire and champion responsible management education, research and thought leadership globally. The PRME are inspired by internationally accepted values such as the principles of the United Nations Global Compact. They seek to establish a process [...]
The Organization of American States (OAS), as a co-sponsor of the World Congress on Justice, Governance and Law for Environmental Sustainability, which will convene in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 1-3 June 2012, is conducting a series of “hemispheric dialogues” on sustainable development themes, intended to generate recommendations on institutions and governance for sustainable development [...]
Latin American Universities join forces to deepen ties with China Deepening ties between Latin American and Chinese universities is one of the core goals in the mission of the Inter-American Organization for Higher Education- an organization that encompasses 315 universities from 26 countries in the Americas. Institutions from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil,Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, [...]
Diverse peoples make up Latin America’s cultural heritage, and preserving those heritages is paramount to understanding and embracing the pluralistic identities in the region. Education is one of the foremost mechanisms for promoting and preserving the region’s indigenous and Afro-descendant cultures. With that in mind, the Latin American Network of Education Portals (RELPE), with funding [...]
