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		<title>Mobility Stats: Mapping Mobility &amp; Open Doors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two international education organisations, Nuffic from the Netherlands and the Washington based Institute of International Education (IIE) published their international student mobility statistics this week. While Open Doors is being published by IIE already since 1948, the Nuffic publication – Mapping Mobility – was published for the first time in 2010. Although Nuffic published international [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.beerkens.info/index.php/2010/11/mobility-stats-mapping-mobility-open-doors/</link>
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		<title>Framing International Education</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ten days ago or so, I was in Sydney for the annual Australian International Education Conference. I’ve seen some very interesting presentations here, some real eye-openers. I’ll discuss some specific sessions here later (I’ll wait until the presentations are available on the website). Now I just want to share some general impressions. Most remarkable for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.beerkens.info/index.php/2010/10/framing-international-education/</link>
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		<title>Five&#8230;</title>
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		<link>http://blog.beerkens.info/index.php/2010/09/five/</link>
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		<title>Dutch universities &amp; the ranking season</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ranking season is over. Yesterday, the Times Higher published its new ranking and that also marked the end of the ranking season for this year. After the Shanghai Jiao Tong ranking, the Leiden ranking, the QS ranking and the Taiwan ranking, this was the fifth attempt to illustrate the differences in quality of the world’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.beerkens.info/index.php/2010/09/dutch-universities-the-ranking-season/</link>
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		<title>Regulating recruitment agencies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Studying abroad for a full degree has developed from an elite to a mass phenomenon. Parallel to this development, we have witnessed a commercialization of international higher education to an extent where many institutions have become financially dependent on full-fee paying international students. To operate in this global market, institutions – and especially the lesser-known [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.beerkens.info/index.php/2010/09/regulating-recruitment-agencies/</link>
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		<title>Ranking Season</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Summer holidays are over. In the global field of higher education, this also means that it is ranking season. Last month the Shanghai ranking kicked off the season. This week the QS World Universities Ranking was revealed and in two weeks the all new Times Higher Education ranking (THE) will be published. Ranking season also [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.beerkens.info/index.php/2010/09/1108/</link>
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		<title>What does the future hold for (Dutch) higher ed?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The first Monday in September traditionally marks the start of the academic year in the Netherlands. It&#8217;s the occasion where university leaders look ahead to the year to come and where inspiring speakers are invited to present their views and opinions. It’s also an opportunity to see what the big issues are in Dutch higher education [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.beerkens.info/index.php/2010/09/what-does-the-future-holds-for-dutch-higher-ed/</link>
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		<title>Nuffic International Education Monitor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The monitor tracks developments in almost 50 countries all over the world. It provides up-to-date country information and explores core themes in international higher education.]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.beerkens.info/index.php/2010/09/nuffic-international-education-monitor/</link>
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		<title>Recognition and Mobility in the Bologna Process</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today and tomorrow, the anniversary of the Bologna Process is celebrated. Actually...it is celebrated by most and protested against by some. A consortium of CHEPS, INCHER and ECOTEC was given the task to prepare an independent assessment of the Bologna process. The study was conducted together with experts from the University of Bath, the Bayerisches Staatsinstitut für Hochschulforschung and Nuffic (i.c. myself)). Below is the presentation by Don Westerheijden (CHEPS) of the part I've been working on: recognition and mobility.]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.beerkens.info/index.php/2010/03/recognition-and-mobility-in-the-bologna-process/</link>
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		<title>Podcasting Higher Ed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some years ago the first podcasts emerged in higher education. Initially these were mostly downloadable lecture series, mainly from US universities. Universities like Berkeley and Stanford took the lead here but soon many other US universities followed and later, also some UK universities jumped the iTunes U bandwagon. In the Netherlands, the universities of Wageningen, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.beerkens.info/index.php/2009/05/podcasting-higher-ed/</link>
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		<title>Does past performance influence success in grant applications?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, the Dutch Volkskrant reported on an interesting study on the distribution of research funding by the Netherlands Research Council (NWO). Loet Leydesdorff (one of the researchers that introduced the Triple Helix concept) and Peter van den Besselaar &#8211; both of the Amsterdam School of Communications Research of the University of Amsterdam &#8211; conducted [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.beerkens.info/index.php/2009/04/does-past-performance-influence-success-in-grant-applications/</link>
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		<title>New Features</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Due to (happy) family circumstances posting has been slow recently. I get round to finding interesting news items to blog about but often couldn&#8217;t find the time to actually write about them. I will try again to post more regularly. After all, plenty is happening in the world of higher education, science and innovation. Between [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.beerkens.info/index.php/2009/04/new-features/</link>
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		<title>European Innovation Scoreboard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, the eighth edition of the European Innovation Scoreboard was published. The European Innovation Scoreboard (EIS) has been published annually since 2001 to track and benchmark the relative innovation performance of EU Member States.]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.beerkens.info/index.php/2009/01/european-innovation-scoreboard/</link>
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		<title>The Principle of Open Access</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m reading &#8216;The Access Principle&#8217; by John Willinsky, a Canadian scholar now at the Stanford University School of Education. He is also the driving force behind the Public Knowledge Project, dedicated to improving the scholarly and public quality of research. I heard about his book some time ago when developing an interest in the open [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.beerkens.info/index.php/2009/01/the-principle-of-open-access/</link>
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		<title>What if I graduated from Amherst or ENS de Lyon&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What if I graduated from Amherst College or the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, I was not a European citizen and I would like to pursue a career in the Netherlands? Well, the Dutch government would say I was not educated sufficiently to enter the Netherlands. You might ask yourself why? Isn&#8217;t the ENS de [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.beerkens.info/index.php/2009/01/what-if-i-graduated-from-amherst-or-ens-de-lyon/</link>
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