Blog posts on Germany
Heading in the same direction?
Within Europe, national policies on international student mobility are influenced by European-level policies, developed by the European Commission or in the framework of the Bologna Process. Does this mean that national policies on student mobility in Europe are converging? And if so, in which ways?
Competing for the brightest students?
This blog argues that vision and coherence are needed in Dutch international student recruitment policies at the national level. Some countries manage to do it, so why can’t we?
Scholarships forever?
The purpose of scholarship programmes
DAAD conference on higher education co-operation highlights challenges
On 11 and 12 May the DAAD conference "Higher education cooperation – A key factor for development" took place in Berlin. DAAD organised this conference to discuss the status and effectiveness of the cooperation between German universities and their partners in developing countries and to develop strategies and courses of action for the future.
Neigbours or strangers?
On 1 March 2011, Dirk Niebel, the German Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development, presented the draft concept for Germany's first ever holistic education strategy in development policy to 200 high-level education sector representatives from Germany and abroad.
Are national and EU policies on student mobility in sync?
"The international train in the direction of Antwerp and Brussels has a delay of about 10 minutes". This must sound familiar to internationalization staff regularly travelling, not only but especially, to Brussels.
Neighbours
A discussion on professional and academic degrees and their labour market relevance.
