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#IDEA is pleased to announce the publication of its new book    “The (Major) Challenges of the #Education System in Luxembourg”.   This book brings together a series of written contributions from several experts. This book brings together a series of written contributions from several experts. First, Dr. Thomas Lenz, Research Manager, and Dr. Susanne Backes, Research Scientist, both from the #LUCET, present an overview of how the education system in #Luxembourg operates. The second contribution, written by Dr. Sonja Ugen, Acting Head of LUCET, and Dr. Joanne Colling, Research and Development Specialist for the LUCET, highlights that the education system operates in a highly multilingual context with strong social and linguistic inequalities. The final text, written by Mr. Edmund Misson, Head of Division for Innovation and Measuring Progress for the #OECD, explains that Luxembourg invests heavily in education but shows relatively low #PISA performance, and his paper underscores the need for clearly defined educational goals and strategies, as well as a shared understanding of what is ultimately expected from the education system: to prepare individuals who are not only competent but also fulfilled and engaged. Download or order the book here 👉 https://lnkd.in/eGwZxrpD

I’m delighted to share that our co-authored research paper, developed under the Research Expertise from the Academic Diaspora (READ) Fellowship and funded by the Albanian - American Development Foundation (AADF)has been accepted for publication! 🚀👇 The study examines how Circular Economy (CE) principles are integrated into teaching practices within Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in Albania. Using a mixed-methods approach, our team mapped current pedagogical frameworks, identified challenges, and proposed strategic recommendations to strengthen the integration of CE across higher education. Drawing on data from 252 students, 27 academics, and 15 stakeholders within the Quadruple Helix model, the findings reveal both gaps and promising innovations, particularly in interdisciplinary learning and student-led sustainability projects. This work contributes to global efforts to embed Circular Economy principles in higher education, offering transferable frameworks and tools relevant for transitional and low-resource systems aiming to advance sustainability. My sincere thanks to my co-authors Alba Demneri Kruja , Arjona Cela , and Fatbardha Morina for their exceptional collaboration, and to the AADF and READ Fellowship for supporting this research journey. 🌿 #READFellowship #AADF #CircularEconomy #Sustainability #HigherEducation #Research #Innovation #Albania #Collaboration #AcademicResearch

IJSaP 9(2) is published We are delighted to announce that the 18th issue of the International Journal for Students as Partners (IJSaP) is now available at: https://lnkd.in/gKyUmTCH You will find 22 manuscripts — 7 research articles, 6 case studies, 7 reflective essays, and an editorial. In this issue, Voices from the Field presents a range of perspectives on how students-as-partners work develops the capacity to navigate complexity, uncertainty, and precarity in today's world. This issue, which is 311 pages long, has been contributed to by 48 students and 63 staff/faculty from Australia, Canada, Ireland, Italy, Pakistan, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

University of Sydney researchers have been awarded over $40 million in funding to create new knowledge and develop solutions to problems facing Australia’s industry 👏 Congratulations to the 55 research teams who have received Discovery Project and Linkage grants from the Australian Research Council (ARC). “These projects exemplify the University’s continuous focus on creating new knowledge that brings social and cultural benefits to Australia.” - Professor Julie Cairney, interim Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research). Learn more about the projects: https://lnkd.in/gRqpbTZh

How stimulating to join a highly productive symposium on the future of research evaluation led by Hamid Bouabid, Director of Scientific Research and Innovation at the Ministère de l'Enseignement Supérieur, de la Recherche Scientifique et de l'Innovation - Maroc, Kingdom of Morocco 🇲🇦. Morocco is developing an exciting National Research Accreditation Framework (NAF), with some parallels with the UK’s Research Excellence Framework (REF), and I was delighted to share an in-depth look at Times Higher Education's approach to research performance measurement, mainly via our gold-standard World University Rankings. It is a little known fact that the THE's world rankings were first conceived in 2003 as an international research performance benchmarking tool for UK government policymakers and university leaders - and that's why they are so widely trusted by governments and sector strategists today. A recommendation for the creation of a global ranking came in a 2003 report for the UK's HM Treasury, by former CBI (Confederation of British Industry) chief, Richard Lambert, on university-business links - the Lambert Review. It pointed out at the time: "Government policy is to finance university research in such a way as to ensure that the UK has a number of institutions able to compete with the best in the world, but it has no yardsticks against which it can measure its success in this endeavour. British universities are still much too inclined to benchmark themselves against each other, failing to recognise that in a global marketplace what counts is how they stand up against the best in the world. "A league table of the world’s best research-intensive universities would provide the Government with a way of assessing its research funding efforts. It would provide academics with a valuable reality check, and help vice-chancellors in their efforts to win the support of their colleagues and the Government for their strategic plans." This is just what Times Higher Education delivered, first in November 2004 - and we are delighted that the unique THE rankings data continues to inform policy making across the world today. Thanks Bola Ibrahim, FRSA and Kenza El Mohajir of the British Council for the invitation and the organisation on the symposium. #THEUniRankings #REF

Peer review is at the heart of trusted research. That’s why The Royal Society of Canada | La Société royale du Canada and FACETS are collaborating on a new Reviewer Board, bringing together expert voices from across the RSC to support high-quality science. This voluntary program invites RSC members to help shape the future of Canadian research publishing 🍁▶️ https://ow.ly/WSX050VFJ4S

Peer review is at the heart of trusted research. That’s why The Royal Society of Canada | La Société royale du Canada and FACETS are collaborating on a new Reviewer Board, bringing together expert voices from across the RSC to support high-quality science. This voluntary program invites RSC members to help shape the future of Canadian research publishing 🍁▶️ https://ow.ly/WSX050VFJ4S

New resource from PATTERN! 🎉 We've mapped over 500 Open RRI/Open Science training resources with rich metadata (format, audience, themes, license). Essential for researchers and support staff looking for quality training. Download the workbook here 👉 https://lnkd.in/dw68MCBu APRE - Agenzia per la Promozione della Ricerca Europea | Aarhus University | LOBA | ESF - European Science Foundation | Learning Planet Institute | SISSA | OpenAIRE AMKE | EARMA | Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele | Ruđer Bošković Institute | SciLink | Universidade do Minho

🤝 MoU Signing Ceremony The International Institute for Regional and International Studies (IIRIS) and the Centre for Alternative Perspectives (CAP) have officially signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to promote academic partnership, research collaboration, and mutual exchange of ideas. The MoU was signed by Mr. Shafiqat Rasool, President of IIRIS, and Dr. Sidra Ahmed, President of CAP. The ceremony was also graced by the presence of the CAP leadership team, including Dr. Samreen Aamir Bari (Founding Chairperson), Dr. Fatima Agha Shah (Vice President), Dr. Sundas Basharat Ahmad (General Secretary), and Ms. Nida Imran (Director Events). Both institutions expressed their keen interest in working together on joint research projects, policy dialogues, seminars, and publications that contribute to addressing pressing regional and global issues. This collaboration represents a significant milestone toward IIRIS’s commitment to fostering academic excellence, policy innovation, and cross-institutional cooperation in the field of regional and international studies. #IIRIS #CAP #MoUSigning #ThinkTanks #ResearchPartnership #RegionalStudies #PolicyDialogue #InternationalRelations #Collaboration

🌿 𝐀𝐒𝐑𝐇𝐄 𝐚𝐭 𝐈𝐒𝐒𝐎𝐓𝐋 2025 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐖𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡: 𝐀𝐧 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐄𝐱𝐞𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐬 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐬 👥 Jo-Anne Kelder, Geof Hill, Michelle Picard, Eva Heinrich, and Prue Laidlaw We’re looking forward to joining colleagues at #ISSOTL25 in Christchurch for a roundtable that invites open, reflective conversation about publishing and collaboration. As editors of an emergent higher education journal, we’ve been reflecting on how journals can move beyond traditional structures to make room for different ways of knowing. Too often, research grounded in Indigenous methodologies is reshaped to fit Western publishing expectations. Our roundtable explores what might happen if we allowed both Indigenous and Western traditions to stand side by side — not in competition, but in relationship. Drawing on creative arts research, we’re exploring an artefact + exegesis model: a way of presenting research that combines creative or practice-based work with reflective writing. We hope this approach can help: 🌿 recognise Indigenous and Western epistemologies as equally valuable, 🌿 reshape how we understand “quality” in scholarly publishing, and 🌿 encourage shared, respectful review processes that are grounded in reciprocity. 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐞: Thursday, 6 November 2025 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞: 10:15–11:45am 𝐋𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: ISSOTL: International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning 2025, Christchurch, New Zealand 𝐒𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧: Collaborative Publishing Practices Follow Advancing Scholarship and Research in Higher Education to continue this conversation about inclusive publishing, shared leadership, and the scholarship of leading. #ISSOTL2025 #ASRHE #SoTL #IndigenousResearch #AcademicPublishing #ArtefactAndExegesis #InclusiveScholarship #ResearchIntegrity