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Higher Education & Research

  1. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 25 January 2006

    1-year Master Programme at the Global Labour University now open for application

    As a Global Union, EI is committed to support the Global Labour University. The Global Labour University is created by the Global Union Research Network (GURN), comprising the ILO's Bureau for Workers' Activities (ACTRAV), the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU), the Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD...

    1-year Master Programme at the Global Labour University now open for application
  2. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 19 January 2006

    UK: Union's fury at vice-chancellors' excessive pay increases

    EI affiliate the Association of University Teachers (AUT) has expressed its amazement at the salary increases of the vice-chancellors and principals on the board of the Universities and Colleges Employers' Association (UCEA).

    UK: Union's fury at vice-chancellors' excessive pay increases
  3. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 12 December 2005

    EI International Conference on Higher Education and Research: "Education is not for sale!"

    The 5th International Conference on Higher Education and Research ended on 9 December with the adoption of a General Report and a Statement to the delegations of the 6th WTO Ministerial meeting concerning GATS and education, which will be held in Hong Kong this week.

    EI International Conference on Higher Education and Research: "Education is not for sale!"
  4. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 28 November 2005

    The struggle for a future: the case of Italian universities

    The Bologna Process is an inter-ministerial initiative, gathering together 45 countries in the European region, which aims at establishing a European Higher Education Area by 2010. One would assume that with such an initiative in place, professionals in the Higher Education and Research sector in the European region enjoy a...

    The struggle for a future: the case of Italian universities
  5. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 15 November 2005

    USA: Affiliate Seek Records on Exclusions of Foreign Scholars

    The national groups accuse the federal agencies of illegally withholding information on the government’s practice of excluding prominent foreign intellectuals based on their political views.

    USA: Affiliate Seek Records on Exclusions of Foreign Scholars
  6. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 9 November 2005

    Putting the Bologna Process into practice

    As in the classroom, there are good and weak students among the countries involved in the Bologna Process. Whilst Higher Education unions in Poland and Portugal are well informed on the process of convergence between universities, their governments are rather slow on the uptake. "I would say that Poland is...

    Putting the Bologna Process into practice
  7. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 31 May 2005

    Higher education: a priority for EI

    The Bologna process aims to establish an open area for higher education – comprising 45 countries – by the year 2010 in order to enable greater student mobility and the mutual recognition of qualifications and diplomas. This will obviously have significant implications for teachers and researchers.

    Higher education: a priority for EI
  8. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 18 May 2005

    Teachers will be part of the Bologna process

    EI and its affiliates from the higher education sector are partners in the current ministerial conference in Bergen (Norway, 19-20 May) aimed at developing a European Higher Education Area. This participation is an official recognition that academics are the "third pillar" of the Bologna process.

    Teachers will be part of the Bologna process