What can we learn from U-Multirank 2015?
Nic Mitchell The new global university rankings recently released by the European Commission funded U-Multirank were largely ignored by the…
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Should we take U-Multirank seriously?
With U-Multirank’s second world university rankings out on March 30, the European University Association, or EUA, has been…
UK universities relying on transnational recruitment
Many English universities are becoming increasingly reliant on recruiting international students through transnational education, or TNE, programmes delivered…
Universities should encourge more staff mobility
Staff mobility needs to be given the same kind of attention as is paid to student mobility if…
Erasmus generation making plenty of impact
Revelations that one million babies had been born to Erasmus students since 1987 caught the headlines when the…
EU exit would damage British universities warning
Universities have warned that a British exit from the European Union would be “potentially disastrous” for higher education…
Communications in the digital age: features are blogs and news is a tweet!
I left mainstream newspaper journalism when I was just 35 after developing repetitive strain injury (RSI as it…
Lithuania – the other side of the student mobility coin
Plans for a major shake-up of higher education in Lithuania are underway as the country struggles to stem…
A post-crisis future for European universities!
FROM the onward march of internationalisation to the fight by academics and students against cuts to their funding,…
From feast to famine to feasting again!
You’ll be living from ‘feast to famine’ they told me when I decided to go freelance and set…