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Issue 172

26 October 2021

FLASH NEWS FROM SEFI

WEBINAR INVITATIONS

Join our upcoming free webinars:

Participatory tech assessment in engineering education

10 November - at 14:30-16:30 CET - register here


Engineering Skills Session 1: “Engineering skill sets across Europe”

16 November - at 13:00-15:00 CET - register here

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ENGINEERING DEANS

FIRST IN-PERSON EVENT IN TWO YEARS!!!

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17-19 November 2021 - Madrid, Spain. 

European Convention for Engineering Deans 2021 on the topic of Engineering Skills will start with a joint session with the Global Engineering Deans Council. You may register now, do not miss the opportunity to network with European engineering deans! 

Register here
SEFI WEEKLY PRESS REVIEW

The article in early 2020 gained some currency and, coincidentally, awareness of higher education’s potential role in ‘saving humanity’ has increased, so with this writing I can challenge higher education to commit not just 10% of students to a re-designed mission as I did in 2020, but 100%. The mission is to create a sustainable human civilisation.

UNIVERSITY WORLD NEWS

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Mathematics has an uncanny ability to solve problems that do not yet exist. The Nobel Prize-winning physicist Eugene Wigner called this the “unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics”. He described, for example, how “very scanty observations” about an apple falling from a tree led to our understanding of an entire dynamic planetary framework.

TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION

The Nobel Prizes in the sciences (physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, and economics) were recently awarded for 2021 – and as usual they not only recognise top scientists and their discoveries, but they also have lessons for contemporary universities and science.

UNIVERSITY WORLD NEWS

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How big a deal is NextGenerationEU – the European Union’s COVID economic recovery plan – for universities? It depends mostly on where the university operates. Most national recovery and resilience plans have been submitted and endorsed by the EU’s institutions, though the scale and contents of these roadmaps differ greatly.

UNIVERSITY WORLD NEWS

The new engineering education will play a crucial part for a university looking to generate more leading academic researches and key technologies, Qiu Shuiping, chair of Peking University (PKU) Council said at a forum held from October 22-24.

CGTN

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In his speech to the UN ahead of COP26, the UK prime minister, Boris Johnson, heralded a “turning point” in humanity’s battle with climate change. If he truly believes this, he will put words into action and ensure that the government makes a strong commitment in next week’s spending review to universities and their vital role across the UK and beyond.

TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION

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