Nic Mitchell reports on moves by Ministers to encourage greater student mobility to strengthen the European Higher Education Area. Student mobility was high on the agenda at the 2012 Bologna Process Ministerial Conference held in Bucharest at the end of April. Held every three years, these ‘summits’ are designed to
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Mar 09, 2012 | Post by: EuprioNic No Comments
Fees up, Applications down and a row about an Access Czar!
Nic Mitchell turns to Lewis Carroll’s Alice-in-Wonderland to make sense of UK higher education policy. I’m getting asked more and more by my friends and colleagues in mainland Europe: What’s going on in British higher education? It is a fair question and one that we keep asking ourselves! And just
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Mar 06, 2012 | Post by: andrea.costa No Comments
Communication By Non-communicators
I have news for you. We are not the only communicators for our universities. I mean, we may be the ones formally entrusted with the responsibility to do just that as a job, but this does not mean that we have a monopoly on university communication. Far from it. The
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Jan 15, 2012 | Post by: andrea.costa No Comments
Know your students!
by Andrea Costa The British daily “The Guardian”, whose Education section is always a source of excellent analysis, came out with a very fine article in December which I would recommend to all EUPRIO members worth their salt. Despite its obvious focus on Britain’s situation (England’s, to be precise), it
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Dec 12, 2011 | Post by: Atticus No Comments
Tinker, Tailor, Journalist, Researcher
We all like to wear many hats, but I wonder whether in the future research and journalism won’t be standard skills that every person learns regardless of their profession? Today, a person can claim that they are one or the other, largely because knowledge is still locked up in ‘ivory
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Dec 02, 2011 | Post by: Atticus 1 Comments
Atticus’ first blog
Hello EUPRIOans! Welcome to your new website! For those whom I have not yet met, my name is Atticus Mullikin and I’m the not-so-new EUPRIO web content manager. I work at Maastricht University for Denis Ancion (whom some of you might know from his publicity stills ?). I’m an American
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Nov 25, 2011 | Post by: andrea.costa 3 Comments
Andrea’s first blog…
by Andrea Costa I know what you think. “Another university blog?”, soon followed by “And where do I find the time for reading it?” Well, you would be right of course. But as far as we know there is no other blog in Europe specifically dedicated to university communication, and
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Oct 30, 2011 | Post by: Atticus No Comments
Partners
From EUPRIO President Paolo Pomati During the recent Prague conference, seeking new partners was a strong part of the new EUPRIO strategy. Our principal targets are the other European organisations that share our objectives and cover the same issues – higher education in particular. Partners will help us to gain
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Sep 28, 2011 | Post by: Atticus No Comments
3 share in EUPRIO award glory
The 2011 EUPRIO Award for ‘Outstanding communication vision, practices and work in European higher education’ was shared between three winners because of the high quality of entries. The Awards are a highlight of the annual conference of the 600-strong European Universities Public Relations and Information Officers (EUPRIO) association. This year’s
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