IIE Announces Winners of the 2015 Heiskell Awards

IIE Announces Winners of the 2015 Andrew Heiskell Awards for Innovation in International Education

Thirteen Campuses Recognized For Their Outstanding International Initiatives

NEW YORK, January 26, 2015—The Institute of International Education (IIE) is pleased to announce the winners of the annual IIE Andrew Heiskell Awards for Innovation in International Education. The awards honor the most outstanding initiatives in international higher education among the member campuses of the IIE Network, IIE's membership association of more than 1,400 higher education institutions. This year's awards highlight a total of ten initiatives that are being conducted by thirteen campuses: five campuses will receive the Heiskell Award and eight more will be recognized with honorable mention. The winners this year are notable for their geographic diversity, with campuses in nine U.S. states across the country as well as universities in Ethiopia, South Korea and Russia.
IIE's Heiskell Awards showcase the most innovative and successful models for internationalizing the campus, study abroad, and international partnership programs in practice today, with a particular emphasis on initiatives that remove institutional barriers and broaden the base of participation in study abroad and international teaching and learning on campus.

National survey shows Canadian universities more focused on internationalisation

26 Jan 2015

A significant majority of Canadian universities – 82% – now place internationalisation among their top five strategic priorities, says a new survey of Canada's degree-granting institutions. This represents a 5% increase over a previous survey in 2006, and leads a broad set of findings that all clearly point to an increasing emphasis on international programmes and services among the country's higher education institutions.
When asked to identify their main reasons for prioritising internationalisation, 53% of Canadian universities say that "preparing internationally knowledgeable and interculturally competent graduates" is their top motivation. The other most-cited reasons are "building strategic alliances and partnerships with key institutions abroad, promoting an internationalised campus, increasing the university's global profile, and generating revenue."
The survey was carried out by the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC) in May 2014 and generated an 80% response rate among the 97 universities and degree-granting colleges within the AUCC membership. AUCC released its detailed findings in December 2014.
"Not since our last survey in 2006 has there been such a comprehensive view of AUCC member institutions' engagement with the world beyond our borders," said Paul Davidson, AUCC's president and CEO. "The responding institutions together represent more than 85% of all Canadian university students and perform roughly 92% of the university research funded by federal research granting agencies."

人才需求的流動性 - 台灣立報

2015-1-21 11:07 作者：lihpao809

高教人力開始盤點總是好事一椿，104學年度起，規範餐旅領域招生名額，不能超過前一學年，而農業、工業領域的系所不得停招，即使招不滿名額，也不得流用至「餐飲」相關科系。

這幾年來，證券市場的股市新兵中，餐飲類股票投資價值高，甚至於比傳統產業的雞蛋水餃股價格還要高出十倍；這種趨勢，在學界反映出來的是，人才往餐飲業流動的必然結果。

這種趨勢，從教育部的統計資料也可以看分明，97學年的餐旅學群學生為3萬7724名，到了101學年就達到6萬6423名，四年時間增加八成學生量，這 代表這類學群的就業市場被看好，才能在招生上開出紅盤。

Who owns internationalisation? - University World News

Hans de Wit16 January 2015 Issue No:350

Towards the end of 2014, in his interesting 'One thought to start the day' blog, Alex Usher asked the intriguing question: "Who owns internationalisation?"

He raises the issue in the context of Canadian internationalisation, described by him as rather fragmented, but the question is relevant generally for higher education institutions and also for national governments. We use the terms mainstream or comprehensive internationalisation more and more, which supposes that there is no fragmentation but an integrated strategic approach to internationalisation.