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AS INTERNATIONALISATION GROWS – EUA FOCUSES ON NEED TO IMPROVE RANKINGS SYSTEMS
THE ANNUAL conference of the European University Association (EUA) has debated how rankings systems need to become more sophisticated benchmarks as the higher education system worldwide becomes more internationalised.
Speaking to University World News after last week’s event in Ghent, Belgium, Ms Lesley Wilson, the EUA’s Secretary General, said that while “everyone has a different view” about rankings, they need to deliver sophisticated benchmarking systems with which institutions will be able to compare themselves against other learning bodies.…
IRELAND IS MOST EDUCATED COUNTRY IN EU, SAYS EUROSTAT
IRELAND has the most higher education graduates per head of population in all 27 countries of the European Union (EU), a report from EU statistical agency Eurostat has revealed.
Looking at the proportion of people aged 30-34 who had completed tertiary education, Eurostat said in 2012, 51.1% of Ireland residents had degrees.…
EUROPE: ARE UNIVERSITY RANKINGS TOO POWERFUL ?
A new report on global university rankings by the European Universities Association (EUA) confirms what most HE heads will have known or suspected for some time: the dramatic growth in the number and scope of rankings tables in recent years has begun to shape the actual ways in which higher education is now developing world-wide.…
DALLI RESIGNATION SPARKS WIRE-TAP ROW AT EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
EUROPEAN Union (EU) anti-fraud agency OLAF has denied it used illegal wire taps to collect evidence in the case of former EU health Commissioner John Dalli, who resigned last year over conflict of interest allegations involving tobacco company Swedish Match.
Dalli, from Malta, had been accused of allowing a Maltese entrepreneur to offer the Swedes influence with the Commission via a lobbyist, so their smokeless snus tobacco products could be legalised within a current review of the EU tobacco products directive.…
EU NAME PROTECTION BOOSTS DRINKS VALUE
LABELLING wines and spirits with European Union (EU) geographic indications (GIs) adds value, a study published March 4 by the European Commission has confirmed.
Analysis of the EU name protection scheme for agri-food found that, on average, GI designated products were estimated to sell at 2.23 times the value of non-GI ones.…
ASTELLIA OFFER BESPOKE MOBILE OPTIMISATION SERVICE TO DIVERSE RANGE OF CLIENTS
WITH mobile communication service providers facing an increasingly complex but growing market, they are being offered a range of third party services to help navigate a path to maximum profitability in this new commercial world. And with consumers using multiple devices and switching between data, video and voice, it is useful not only to be supplied software systems that helps make sense of this communications Babel, but to be advised and helped along the way.…
SOPHISTICATED FAKE EUROPEAN TOBACCO SMUGGLING SYSTEM UNVEILED IN GERMANY COURT
A COMPLEX international supply web supporting an illicit business of tobacco counterfeiters, losing European Union (EU) governments Euro EUR50 million in duties, has been unveiled in a German court. Details were revealed in a case at the Berlin-Moabit criminal court convicting a German-Russian co-national to nine years jail.…
EUROPEAN COMMISSION PLANS ALTERNATIVE TRANSPORT REFUELLING AND CHARGING NETWORKS: WILL VEHICLE SALES FOLLOW?
THE QUESTION of whether publicly-supported refuelling and recharging stations are needed to jump-start demand for electric, hydrogen and other alternatively-powered vehicles seems almost as old as the conundrum about the chicken and the egg. Yet, a clear answer has yet to be supplied – and with green vehicle sales still generally weak – the European Commission has decided that for Europe, it might as well push ahead with proactively creating refuelling/charging networks anyway.…
EU RESEARCH PROJECT DEVELOPS SUGAR MOLECULES STUDY
A EUROPEAN Union (EU)-funded research project is creating new manufacturing processes using enzymes to add sugar molecules to medicines, including antibiotics and vitamins, a European Commission note has said, stressing this “can often improve their function…” This process – called glycosylation – can for instance make “Vitamin C lasts much longer in storage”, it added.…
EU INDUSTRY COMMISSIONER WELCOMES ARCELORMITTAL DECISION TO KEEP FLORANGE AND LIÈGE SITES WORKING
European Union (EU) industry Commissioner Antonio Tajani has welcomed the decision by ArcelorMittal to keep its Florange, France and Liège, Belgium plants open after he met with CEO Lakshmi Mittal this afternoon (Tuesday). Speaking exclusively with Steel First in Brussels, Tajani said: “I have informed the industry ministers of France, Belgium and Luxembourg that the two sites will not be closed following my meeting with Mr Mittal today”.…