“… What is happening to higher education during the crisis in Europe? There are some obvious points to be made. First, the crisis in Eurozone is not just a European crisis, but is also entwined with the global financial system …” (more)
[Terri Kim, University World News, 11 December]
“The cluster of glass buildings that serves as the headquarters of Nokia, the global telecommunications giant that is Finland’s largest company, is a short stroll from the main campus of Aalto University, one of the country’s newest higher-education institutions …” (more)
[Aisha Labi, Chronicle of Higher Education, 2 January]
“Across Europe students and professors have been taking to the streets in protest. The largest demonstrations have been in Britain …” (more)
[Aisha Labi, Chronicle of Higher Education, 9 December]
“College students are known for their ability to survive on instant noodles, toast and a shoestring budget. But recently, some students in Ireland have gotten particularly desperate …” (more)
[Meg Handley, Time, 4 April]
“The global economic crisis has led to budget cuts in the education sector in member states across the European Union at a time when the bloc is seeking to boost its economy by, among other things, putting education at the centre of its new economic strategy …” (more)
[Helena Spongenberg, University World News, 21 February]
“One-third of the faculty of Harvard University’s economics department hails from Europe. At the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, half of the finance department’s faculty is European. And these schools aren’t alone: European economists are overrepresented at all first-tier American universities …” (more)
[HT: Philip Lane]
[Guy Sorman, City Journal, Winter issue]
“A league table that isn’t actually a league table: via ‘European best universities’ – ZEIT ONLINE …” (more)
[Registrarism, 29 October]
“Five hundred university leaders who gathered in Prague this month called on European governments to invest in higher education during the economic and financial crisis. Meeting at the fifth convention of higher education institutions, organised by the European University Association, the rectors said universities had a key role as a ‘motor’ for economic recovery by providing the research-based education at all levels needed to promote creativity and innovation. EUA President Professor Jean-Marc Rapp told the meeting European universities were a long-term investment in the continent’s future …” (more)
[University World News, 29 March]
“We do not want any ‘market of knowledge’! Call for a European mobilisation against the Lisbon strategy in higher education and research. The next spring summit of the heads of state and governments of the European union will take place on March 19th‐20th, 2009. One of its priorities will be the assessment of the Lisbon strategy initiated in 2000, which frames the policies currently engaged in the Member States so as to ‘modernise’ the national research and education system (primary, secondary and higher education, lifelong learning). The declared ambition of a ‘knowledge‐based society’ should be encouraged, as far as it consists in a collective ambition to promote education and research as public goods, a guarantee of democratisation of knowledge, and an opportunity for citizens to possibly criticise scientific and technical choices. But the current orientation is different …” (more)
[Counter-Cartographies Collective, 31 January]
“Ireland is increasingly out of step with the rest of Europe where the trend is towards college tuition fees, an EU survey reveals. But their possible re-introduction is causing anger among students, pictured above, who took to the streets in Waterford yesterday in advance of a massive march in Dublin on February 4 …” (more)
[Conor Kane and John Walshe, Independent, 22 January]
