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Carson, Lorna – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2016
This article begins with a brief overview of the aims and activities of the CercleS CEFR/ELP Focus Group. It goes on to report on some of the outcomes of the 2015 CercleS CEFR/ELP seminar hosted by the Centre for Language and Communication Studies at Trinity College Dublin. The five examples presented during the seminar's plenary sessions are…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries, Focus Groups
Finkel, Ed – District Administration, 2012
If the results of the most recent international achievement tests were graded on a curve, U.S. students probably would rank somewhere in the B range. They placed 14th in reading, 17th in science and 25th in mathematics among 70 countries whose 15-year-olds participated in the 2009 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) testing, the…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Standardized Tests, Global Approach, Educational Practices
Council for Advancement and Support of Education, 2010
This article reports on the results of a two-year project to strengthen and enhance alumni relations programmes at European universities. Members of the "Alumni go Europe" partnership include CASE Europe, the University of Linz in Austria, the University of Navarra in Spain, and the University of Siegen in Germany. The project is funded…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Alumni, Lifelong Learning, Benchmarking
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Mok, Ka Ho; Cheung, Anthony B. L. – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2011
In the era of globalisation, competition has also become global. In higher education, countries worldwide are attaching increasing importance to international ranking exercises and subscribing to the "world-class universities" paradigm, complemented by various strategies to benchmark with leading universities in order to enhance the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Governance, Politics of Education
Pinheiro, Romulo, Ed.; Benneworth, Paul, Ed.; Jones, Glen A., Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2012
Universities are under increasing pressure to help promote socio-economic growth in their local communities. However until now, no systematic, critical attention has been paid to the factors and mechanisms that currently make this process so daunting. In Universities and Regional Development, scholars from Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Asia…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Role of Education, International Education
Adelman, Clifford – Institute for Higher Education Policy, 2009
The title of this document is a deliberate play on the title of the biennial reports on the progress of Bologna produced by the European Students' Union, "Bologna With Student Eyes." It is a way of paying tribute to student involvement in the Bologna reforms, and marking a parallel student working participation in the state system…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Qualifications, Educational Change