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Erasmus+ for (non)teaching staff
Staff mobility at University of Applied Sciences Velika Gorica (VVG).
The Benefits of Using the News to Learn a Foreign Language
Watching the news can teach you new words and phrases and educate you in proper pronunciation. Reading the news will increase your vocabulary and improve your grammar skills. And that’s not all…
Tips for Learning Chinese Languages
Tips for leaning Chinese languages and description of difficulties learners can face when learning Chinese.
Academic mobility is becoming more popular each year. And it is considered to be important, if not the defining instrument of internationalization. Erasmus program and other famous exchange programs.
Marketing Strategies For Universities
A great number of universities each year compete among themselves to attract the best students. But is it really that difficult?
Baikal International Education Fair-2018 'Education of the Future'
On November 22- 24, 2018 the Sibexpocenter in Irkutsk will host the Baikal International Education Fair (BIEF) for the first time. The Fair will present the state-of-the-art breakthrough educational technologies.
Quality Assurance in US Higher Education
The purpose of this landscape paper is to organize some of the current debates about higher education quality assurance and to present a possible path forward to enable higher education leaders, policy makers, and the twenty-plus million current students to achieve their common goal of improving the success of the sector.
Quality Assurance in US Higher Education: A Path Forward
The current system of quality assurance in the United States, including the roles played by the federal government and regional accreditors; the process of self-evaluation, site-visits, and peer reviews; and the focus on institution-specific processes should be maintained. In addition, there is a number of ways in which this system could be improved to balance greater rigor and transparency with greater flexibility and incentives for institutional improvement and learning.
International approaches to quality assurance in US higher education
Though international developments of HE quality assurance, they do illustrate efforts to create systems that incentivize institutional improvement, organizational learning, and self-regulation while improving sector-wide accountability and rigor.
Management-based approaches to quality assurance in the USA
In the context of higher education quality assurance, more-frequent monitoring has the potential to improve accountability, offer more opportunities for institutional improvement, and reduce the resource burden and tendency for “box-checking” that is criticized in the current process.
Performance-based approaches to reforming US higher education quality assurance
Performance-based regulation reinforces competition among higher education institutions, exacerbating incentives for institutions to keep effective practices to themselves.
US Higher Education Accreditation and Its Critics
Quality assurance sector and accreditation has been around for more than a century in the USA. Today there are more than 7,000 institutions of higher education. Recognizing this diversity, government has historically taken a flexible approach to the regulation of higher education.
Pursue your Master's degree in Russian universities free of charge
Tyumen State University invites foreign students to participate in the international Olympiad for Master's applicants 'Open Doors: Russian Scholarship Project'. The prize winners will be able to qualify for free tuition at Russian universities.
NIRF India Ranking 2019 application deadline approaching
Evolved in 2014-2015 the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) is the India Ranking of top universities. The NIRF methodology was adopted by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India.
Russian universities offer free education to international students
Russian universities have started accepting the documents from foreign citizens and Russians living abroad for free education based on the quota of the Government of the Russian Federation, according to Russia.Study website where prospective students are to apply to Russian HEIs.
Digital Transformation of Education
On October 26, 2018, as part of the 12th International exhibition Integrated Systems Russia 2018 (Expocenter, Moscow), the conference 'Digital Transformation of Education' took place. It was dedicated to digital technologies in pedagogical education.
Ufa International Education Fair-2018: Modern Educational Technologies
On November 07 - 10, 2018 Ufa will hold the second Ufa International Education Fair (UIEF) that became an effective platform for interaction between specialists, students, business representatives and state authorities.
On November 8-9, 2018, NUST MISiS, in cooperation with Times Higher Education, is hosting the international Research Excellence Summit 'Transformation towards world-class research in the natural sciences.'
International Forum on Inclusive Higher Education in Kirov: Results and Prospects
November 1, 2018, was the last day of the international forum on inclusive higher education held at Vyatka State University, the flagship university of the Kirov Region.
On October 24-25, 2018 Higher School of Economics hosted the IX International Conference of Higher Education Researchers 'Universities in search of balance between new and old goals.'
Inclusive higher education: problems, experience and development prospects
The Forum 'The creation of a supporting system for the higher education educational institutions activities in the implementation and development of inclusive education' started is work on October 31, 2018 in Vyatka State University, a flagship university in the Kirov Region.
The International Forum in Kirov: Inclusive Education in Higher Education Institutions
The international forum devoted to the implementation and development of inclusive education in higher education institutions brings together HEIs' representatives, experts, employers and members of non-governmental organizations on October 31-November 01, 2018 in Kirov.
Leading Russian universities will propose measures to improve competitiveness
The meeting of the Council on Competitiveness Enhancement of Leading Russian Universities will take place on October 26-27, 2018 in Kaliningrad: the participants will prepare recommendations to continue the provision of state aid (for the Ministry of Higher Education and Science) and to improve competitiveness (for HEIs).
Twenty-four Russian HEIs in TOP 100 of BRICS University Ranking
The QS University Rankings BRICS 2018 included 101 Russian universities with 24 HEIs in Top 100; leaders are Moscow State University (6th place) and Saint Petersburg State University (11th place).