Artesnet in Porto (2)
13 May 2010
Peer Power! The future of Higher Arts Education in Europe
ESMAE, Porto, 7-8 May 2010
Day 3 Saturday 8 May
The second day of the meeting started bright and early with an introduction to the Portuguese experience by Alberto Amaral as an expert in Quality Assurance. Though specifically Portuguese I think the experience would be recognized in many places around – a massive and largely uncoordinated expansion of HE followed by frantic attempts to put in place some measure of quality control. Read the rest of this entry »
Artesnet in Porto
13 May 2010
Peer Power! The future of Higher Arts Education in Europe
ESMAE, Porto, 7-8 May 2010
In an ideal world this would have been posted ‘live’ as it happened … sometimes hotel broadband is not what it should be, even when you have to pay for it!! Read the rest of this entry »
ELIA board critical of European Ranking plans
19 April 2010
In its October 2009 meeting, the ELIA Board expressed serious concerns about the plans to develop a European approach to ranking of universities. Recently a large-scale project U-Multirank started to investigate the feasibility of such a ranking system. This European Commission project develops and tests an alternative design for a global university ranking, avoiding the flaws and deficits of existing international rankings and providing a valid, fair comparison of institutions. Read the rest of this entry »
