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The Clock is Ticking – Take the IAU COVID-19 Impact Survey now!
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The Second IAU Global Survey on the Impact of COVID-19 on Higher Education around the World is available until 15 April 2021. If you have not already submitted your response, please do so to provide concrete data to underline the seriousness of the impact of COVID-19 on higher education and society, as well as to ensure that the concerns of universities and other HEIs are taken into consideration by global decision-makers. Questionnaire PDF available here.
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IAU Webinars Coming Up in April
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The IAU Webinar Series on the Future of Higher Education brings two new sessions this month, beginning with A Question of Quality: What is a Good University? on 13 April.
The second instalment of the series presenting the publication Higher Education’s Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Building A More Sustainable and Democratic Future hosted by Dublin City University, Ireland, will take place on 21 April. The book is co-edited by Sjur Bergan (Council of Europe), Tony Gallagher (Queen’s University Belfast), Ira Harkavy, (Netter Center, University of Pennsylvania), Ronaldo Munck (Dublin City University), and Hilligje van't Land, IAU Secretary-General.
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Be a Changemaker – Support IAU to Advance the Global Higher Education Sector!
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IAU is a unique global association of Higher Education institutions and organisations, which advocates for higher education worldwide. The current COVID-19 situation has reinforced the need for a stronger international cooperation in the field of education. IAU wishes to keep offering its services and activities to its Members and the broader higher education community. Help us reach our common goals and contribute to advancing the HE sector with us by making a donation to IAU.
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Central Asia Nobel Fest Starts Tomorrow!
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IAU is an intellectual partner to the Central Asia Nobel Fest 2021. This second edition will take place 7-9 April 2021. Watch an interview with Andrew Deeks, IAU Board Member and VC of University College Dublin; IAU Secretary-General Hilligje van't Land will chair the session entitled Why are Soft Skills becoming More Important than University Degrees?, while Trine Jensen, Manager, HE and Digital Transformation, will speak on the topic of Educational Inequality and Development in Digital Era: Can Tech Equalize Access and Opportunities? at this event.
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2021 EUA Annual Conference
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IAU President Prof Pam Fredman will speak at the opening session of the 2021 EUA Annual Conference “Universities 2030: From vision to reality” taking place place virtually on 22-23 April. It will focus on the role universities play in building a competitive and sustainable Europe in collaboration with global partners.
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Join us in extending a warm welcome to 4 new Members!
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Kennesaw State University, USA
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Leeds Trinity University, UK
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Tashkent State University of Economics, Uzbekistan
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IAU at 70: Featured Video Contributions from Members & Partners
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Esther D. Brimmer
Executive Director and CEO, NAFSA: Association of International Educators, USA
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Peter Aronsson
Vice-Chancellor, Linnaeus University, Sweden
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Stefania Giannini
Assistant Director-General for Education, UNESCO
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Members and Partners in Action
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UNESCO World Conference on ESD
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The UNESCO World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development will be held as a virtual conference from 17 to 19 May 2021, with a view to highlighting the crucial role of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) as a key enabler for the successful achievement of all SDGs, the COVID-19 rebuilding process, and to create momentum for strengthening ESD in policy and practice. IAU will co-organise and chair the session Putting ESD into action in higher education.
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UNESCO Prize for Girls’ and Women’s Education
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Nominations are open for the 2021 edition of the UNESCO Prize for Girls’ and Women’s Education, recognising outstanding efforts made by individuals, institutions, non‐governmental organisations and other entities to advance girls’ and women’s education. It also contributes to two Sustainable Development Goals: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all (Goal 4) and Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls (Goal 5).
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Africa and the Disruptions of the 21st Century
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IAU Board Member Paul Tiyambe Zeleza, Vice Chancellor and Professor of the Humanities and Social Sciences at the United States International University-Africa, has published a collection of essays interrogating the repositioning of Africa and its diasporas in the unfolding disruptive transformations of the early twenty-first century, focusing on America’s racial dysfunctions, navigating global turbulence, Africa’s political dramas and persistent mythologisation and disruptions in higher education.
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Higher Education and SDG 5 on Gender Equality
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On the occasion of International Women's Day 2021, IAU and the University of Bologna, Italy, launched a new publication focusing on SDG 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls. The publication is part of a series of publications on university actions for the SDGs, with the overall aim of building new synergies and capacities to act while informing higher education more broadly.
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ISAS Impact Evaluation Report
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IAU and the Center for International Higher Education at Boston College are pleased to present the ISAS impact evaluation study investigating the efficacy of the Internationalization Strategy Advisory Services (ISAS) program and its successor ISAS (2.0) on internationalization initiatives at higher education institutions. The results indicate that all participating institutions found ISAS to be useful in advancing their internationalization initiatives, which is a clear endorsement of the program on their part.
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