Online learning can’t replace student mobility, EUA told
Student mobility should be fully restored as soon as possible as the advantages of experiencing another country’s higher education environment cannot be replaced by remote learning, delegates to this year’s online European University Association (EUA) annual conference heard.
Professor Dame Janet Beer, vice-chancellor of the University of Liverpool and a leading figure promoting global links in United Kingdom higher education, told the conference that going abroad to study was a life-changing experience for students, contributing to their maturity and personal and intellectual capacity.
“Students will feel an affinity with the country they have studied in and the need for cross understanding and sensitivities to other people’s cultures, making for greater cultural understanding both at home and overseas and building up social and economic ties between nations,” she said.
Parliament to unlock €95 5B Horizon Europe research programme
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Shake up reward and recognition of academic researchers
A radical shake-up in how academic researchers are recognised and rewarded is urgently required to remove roadblocks preventing a more diverse range of early career researchers from advancing into academia.
The current methods of research assessment overvalue outputs and ignore how the research is done and thereby threaten research integrity, according to findings presented to a session of the 2021 annual conference of the European University Association (EUA) on 22 April.
Noémie Aubert Bonn, a post-doctoral researcher at Hasselt University in Belgium and Amsterdam UMC in the Netherlands, investigated recognition and rewards of academic career profiles with Professor Dr Wim Pinxten for her PhD project.