Annual Network Meeting and U21 Symposium
Northern hemisphere International Directors' Meeting
Busy April around the Network
New U21 Collaborative Group on Developmental Psychology & Learning Sciences
FINE newsletter online
U21 WFSC project in Chronicle of Higher Education
Call for March newsletter articles
Annual Network Meeting and U21 Symposium
The 2010 U21 Annual Network Meeting and Symposium, hosted this year by the University of Delhi, will take place between Wednesday 28 and Friday 30 April. The symposium entitled Universities and Government Funding in the Developing and Developed Worlds aims to explore the relationship between universities, resource generation, society and the production, dissemination and utilisation of knowledge. Speakers include Professor David Greenaway, Vice Chancellor, University of Nottingham, Professor Tan Eng Chye, Deputy President (Academic Affairs) NUS and Professor Deepak Pental, Vice Chancellor, University of Delhi. Those intending to attend are urged to register now, in order to secure their accommodation.
Further information about this can be found at http://www.universitas21.com/event/100428AGM.html
Northern hemisphere International Directors’ meeting
University College Dublin will be hosting a meeting of European and North American U21 International Directors on 19 March 2010. The objective of this meeting will be to discuss and plan a range of possible areas for collaboration relating to internationalisation. There is particular interest in considering how the brand and market position of U21 might be developed and enhanced for the joint and individual benefit of member institutions. Other topics of interest include shared student recruitment initiatives, international benchmarking and profile-raising through a more visible presence at major international higher education events.
Further details will be available on the Events page of the U21 website shortly and interested parties should contact Erik Lithander (erik.lithander@ucd.ie).
www.universitas21.com/events.html
Busy April around the Network
Universitas 21 collaborative group members have a busy April ahead. Firstly the Student Mobility group will be holding its Annual Meeting from 12 to 13 April at University of Queensland, focusing on Health & Safety and Risk Management, among other key topics. Then the Deans and Directors of Graduate Studies (DDoGS) meet from 19 to 20 April at the University of Melbourne, while at the end of the month, the Forum for International Networking in Education (FINE) holds its meeting on 29 April in Denver, USA alongside the U21 Deans of Education meeting.
More details about all U21 collaborative groups may be found at http://www.universitas21.com/collaborative.html
New U21 Collaborative Group on Developmental Psychology & Learning Sciences
A new collaborative group has been formed to link together students, researchers and practitioners from U21 institutions working on issues relating to child development and learning. The aims of the group are to facilitate student and staff exchanges, to establish research collaborations, to provide a platform for sharing information and to encourage online sharing of resources. The convener of the group is Dr Nicola Pitchford, School of Psychology, University of Nottingham.
More details at http://www.universitas21.com/psychologygroup.html
FINE newsletter online
The Forum for International Networking in Education (FINE) is a student group that seeks to provide education doctoral students with opportunities for social and professional networking globally. All education doctoral students and recent graduates from Universitas 21 universities are welcome as members of the group. The February issue of the FINE newsletter is now online, with information about upcoming FINE events to be held in conjunction with several major conferences, including the American Educational Research Association (AERA) annual meeting (29 April to 4 May). There is also a list of FINE research interest groups, writing from other doctoral students about their lives and thoughts, upcoming job opportunities, and more.
http://www.universitas21.com/Education/FINE-newsletter201002.pdf
U21 WFSC project in Chronicle of Higher Education
The Chronicle of Higher Education has published an article about Universitas 21, written by Alan Ervine at the University of Glasgow and Jane Usherwood, Secretary General of U21. The article entitled We must create new models of international interaction, uses the Water Futures for Sustainable Cities programme as an example of best practice in international interaction.
Subscribers to The Chronicle will be able to read the article which was published on 14 February via http://jobs.chronicle.com/article/We-Must-Create-New-Models-of/64129/ and it is also downloadable from our website at http://www.universitas21.com/PressRelease/100214ChronicleArticle.html
Call for March newsletter articles
The next edition of the U21 newsletter (published 3 times a year) is currently in production. If you have news or articles which may be of interest to colleagues around the U21 network, reports from U21 scholarships or fellowships, pictures from U21 activities or items of general interest, please send them to Clare Noakes (c.e.noakes@bham.ac.uk) by Wednesday 10 March.
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