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:: GUNI News
IAU Conference on Higher Education and Research Addressing Local and Global Needs
The International Association of Universities (IAU) held its 13th General Conference in Utrecht, the Netherlands, from 15 to 18 July 2008 on the theme of higher education and research addressing local and global needs. IUA members also elected the new IAU President who succeeds Professor Goolam Mohamedbhai: Juan Ramónn de la Fuente, former Rector of the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
Monday, August 04, 2008
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:: Articles
‘Comprehensible by June’? Art education and arts-based research in Ireland
In this article Gary Granville, Professor of Education in the National College of Art and Design (NCAD), Dublin, Ireland, reflects upon inherent dilemma in art education: the extent to which objective assessment criteria can be applied to subjective creative processes as well as upon the acceptance and usage of arts-based research methods in research fields ranging from the social to the medical sciences.
Monday, August 04, 2008
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12th North American Higher Education Conference, Monterrey, 8-10 October
The Consortium for North American Higher Education Collaboration, CONAHEC, organises the 12th North American Higher Education Conference on the theme of “Higher Education Collaboration: Local Responses in a Global Context”. The event will be hosted by the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León.
Thursday, July 31, 2008
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Asia and the Pacific Sub-Regional Preparatory Meeting for the 2009 World Conference on Higher Education
The second of the regional preparatory conferences for the 2009 World Conference on Higher Education will be held in Macao SAR, China, from 24 to 26 September under the title “Facing Global and Local Challenges: the new Dynamics for Higher Education”.
Thursday, July 31, 2008
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Good practice of the month: Opening educational resources in South Africa
The University of the Western Cape in South Africa has initiated a project of OpenCourseWare to give students and lecturers from the whole South African region free access to teaching resources. This makes it the first African university to form part of the OpenCourseWare Consortium, which represents an important event for the movement for participative innovative processes and open access to knowledge.
Thursday, July 31, 2008
