The Science Association of Nigeria is hosting its 49th Annual Conference at the University of Ilorin in April of 2014. The theme is "Exploring Advancement in Science and Technology for National Security". Subthemes include:
The conference is hosted by the Vice Chancellor of the University of Ilorin, Professor A.G. Ambali.The Keynote speaker is Professor Peter Akinsola Okebukola. More details can be found .
Reflecting the growing trend of shifting GDP expenditure from mineral wealth towards research and innovation boosting programs, the SRI conference will explore sustainable research experiences in Kenya. The conference will feature works on 16 sub-themes ranging from "Environmental management strategy" to "Industrial proccesses performance and control".
The event will be held at the AICAD facilities on the University's campus. More information can be found .
This conference is the largest gathering of eLearning and ICT supported training professionals in Africa and provides an important networking opportunity for attendees. The conference features presentations and workshops hosted by researchers and professionals from the both the public and private sectors.
Registration is still open!
Cost of Attendance for the conference are:
The above-mentioned fees do not include pre-conference events, accommodation, travel costs or the Book of Abstracts.
The overarching theme of this year's conference is "Opening Frontiers to the Future" with the following sub-themes:
"What are the global trends in doctoral education, and how can and should universities react? This is the main question that the 7th Annual Meeting of the EUA Council for Doctoral Education will address...In addition, the Annual Meeting will provide European universities with an insight into doctoral education in other parts of the world as well as give non-European universities an opportunity to learn more about European doctoral education."
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Questions regarding registration, which opens in April, should be directed to the Events Assitants, Arianna Palomba and Aurélie Clenet:
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Please click here for more information about the , which closes 2 April.
The Applied Research Conference in Africa (ARCA) Conference was founded in March 2012 through an initiative of the Cape Coast Polytechnic branch of KNUST Alumni association during its inauguration in March 2011.The aim of ARCA 2014 is to provide a platform for capacity building and networking among researchers in Africa.The theme of this year's conference is "The Role of African Researchers in the Socio-Economic Development of the Continent."
Early Registration closes 14 March 2014. Participants can register online on the Conference's website.
The fee for non-PhD students is 300USD and 220USD for PhD students during the early registration period. After 14 March, the price for non-PhD students is 350USD and for PhD students 250USD. Accomodation is not included in this fee.
Reputable organizations are invited to sponsor the conference.
The theme of this year's Australian International Education Conference (AIEC), presented by the International Education Association of Australia (IEAA) and IDP Education is "Inventing the Future". The conference, which is the largest of its kind in the southern hemisphere, will feature speakers and sessions that encourage participants to envision international education in different and new ways. Some of the main topics of interest are: community engagement, student teaching, transnational education, MOOCs, and skills and employment. For a more detailed list, please click .
Registration opens in May 2014. To be notified when the online registration form becomes available you can subscribe to the conference's mailing list . Fee information and accomodation instructions are also available on the Conference's site.
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For decades, Africa has been viewed as the ‘problem child’ of this world. Higher education in Africa was no exception to this rule. It was perceived as under-resourced and, more important, seriously under-achieving. Not that the major challenges have disappeared overnight. But recent years have witnessed important change, at least in part of the vast continent’s higher education systems and institutions. This is one of the many good reasons to take a fresh and unbiased look, and to re-evaluate African higher education. This is exactly what the seminar For mutual gain: Euro-African cooperation in higher education is intended to do.
No. 40 in the ACA European Policy Seminar series, this event is special. It is co-organised by the European University Association (EUA), the European Association for International Education (EAIE) and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Together, the four organisations have created a rich and multi-faceted programme, with three main thematic orientations:
• Recent overall trends and developments in African higher education;
• Internationalisation in African higher education; and
• Cooperation in higher education between Africa and Europe.
The seminar features as speakers some of the finest specialist on African higher education and on Euro-Africa collaboration. We are proud to announce presenters from the World Bank, the European Commission, and from universities across Europe. Moreover, we are especially proud that half of the speakers at this seminar are African academics. Thus, you will receive information and analysis from the “original source”.
The seminar, which bears the subtitle 'New Opportunities for a New Horizons' aims to discover the opportunity of doctoral programs as a strategy to attract international talent and internationalization of research and its role in the context of new European policies. The seminar also encourages the participation and coordination of programs from Catalan universities.
Since 2011 the Catalan Association of Public Universities (ACUP) and the International Association of Universities (IAU) are joining forces in the area of doctoral education, bringing together two projects: , led by IAU and the , led by ACUP. One of the main outcomes of this collaboration is the development of the joint IDEA platform (www.idea-phd.net) on innovative approaches to doctoral education.
The above mentioned projects led to the identification of supervision of doctoral students as one of the key challenges African higher education institutions are facing. In the recently initiated Personal Learning Environment (PLE)-PhD project () financed through the IAU LEADHER programme, the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), Kenyatta University (KU) and the Catalan Association of Public Universities (ACUP) are looking into how digital technologies, more specifically the web 2.0 tools, can respond to this challenge.
In order to present and debate the project outcomes, create a community and network of experts as well as sharing experiences and practices and exploring new avenues for cooperation, UOC, KU, ACUP and IAU are co-organizing this one-day workshop on e-supervision.
The seminar intends to
- Present and discuss the importance and pertinence of e-supervision and the academic challenges and opportunities involved;
- Analyse the use of Personal Learning Environments for Doctoral Students (PLEDS) as new models of effective e-supervision;
- Share concrete experiences and practice in the field of e-supervision: how does it work; what are the basic principles that should guide e-supervision; what are the challenges (advantages and opportunities or difficulties);
- Identify the institutional actors to involve (programme designers, professors, students, administrators);
- Debate challenges and possible solutions to develop successful e-supervision
The summit on Combating Challenges of Academic Mobility in Africa 2013 under the theme “Planning Academic mobility to strengthen African higher education and to promote flows of talent and expertise and to attract a qualified labor force” will take place from 28th – 30th August 2013 at Southern Sun Hotel, OR Tambo International Airport, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Academic mobility poses serious challenges to the African Education System. Increasing access to quality higher education for students, staff and academics at the same time enabling them to benefit from experience gained in the context of mobility to another country can be pain stacking. Currently, Academic Mobility in Africa suffers from cultural, socio-economical and academic barriers among other major challenges. Ministries and learning institutions responsible for higher education in Africa should promote academic mobility to attract students and staff from other parts of the world and be internationally competitive. Academic Mobility of students and staff is one of the core issues and key stones in building up the African Higher Education arena.
This informative summit will be an important tool in strengthening the region’s development potentials and enhancing the quality of cross-border higher education which is intended to function as a platform from which increased cooperation between countries and institutions in the region can take place.
The IDEA portal will be presented at the which is going to take place in Warsaw the 17th and 18th of June. During the "Speakers corner" participants from the area of doctoral education in Europa will get to know the initiative and will be invited to contribute to it.
The Finnish University Partnership for International Development (UniPID), in cooperation with the University of Helsinki and the HEI ICI Developing Development Studies Consortium, will host the second DocLinks Summer School in Helsinki, Finland on July 2-5, 2013. This summer school is part of an Erasmus Mundus-funded project, that aims to increase understanding and establish better links between African and European Doctoral Education Candidates and early career researchers.
This conference, dedicated to improving funding strategies for higher education in Africa, is going to take place in Johannesburg the 27th and 28th of May 2013.
The African Doctoral Academy is pleased to offer a Winter School in Social Science Research Methods. The Winter School is aimed at prospective and current doctoral students in the social sciences and humanities but is open to anyone who has a master's degree. For more information follow this .
During the organized by GUNI, which took place from the 13th to the 15th of May, dedicated to "Let's Build Transformative Knowledge to Drive Social Change", Hilligje van't Land, Nadja Gmelch and Eva Gil presented the IDEA-platform. Seizing the opportunity of an international public dedicated to foster innovation in higher education, the presenters invited the participants to contribute with their expriences to enrich the contents of the platform.
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Hosted by the Centre for Higher and Adult Education
Stellenbosch University, South Africa: 24 – 26 April 2013
Conference topic: “Candidates, supervisors and institutions: Pushing postgraduate boundaries”
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The ACP-EU Cooperation Programme in Sciences and Technology II Call for Proposals Launched.
Science and Technology Programme
The IDEA-PhD portal will be officially presented on November the 28th during the International Association of Universities general conference at San Juan (Puerto Rico).
Organized in partnership with the , The IAU 14th General Conference will offer both a thematic programme and a series of sessions on IAU Business.
The Thematic Conference will allow participants to examine how higher education and research responds to the many key challenges that are taken up on the Global Agenda. During both the Plenary and parallel sessions, Higher Education Leaders will analyze what role and responsibilities higher education institutions have to respond to the Millennium Development Goals.
Among other issues, they will debate the various funding models adopted today and how these impact the developments of higher education around the world. They will as well debate new internationalization models and strategies.
The AAU announces the organising of the fifth Leadership Development (LEDEV V) workshop holding at Kingdom Hotel, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe from September 23 to 27, 2013.
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