• EU requires recognition of foreign qualifications

The European Commission has taken action against France, Italy and Spain for not recognizing professional qualifications earned in other member states.

Some Italian nationals, for example, were refused access to the Spanish labour market because they were told that their engineering qualifications were not valid in Spain. In Greece, architectural qualifications were evaluated incorrectly, and France was given a warning by the Commission for not recognizing teaching qualifications in the field of special educational needs.  Read more: Eurogates.Forum 

• Holland and Sweden attract  British students

High tuition fees are driving postgraduate students abroad where they can study in English for a fraction of the price, says David Brill. A rise in the numbers of UK masters students seeking cheaper courses in Sweden and the Netherlands has prompted the National Union of Students to call for more affordable courses at British universities.

So far, the numbers involved are a trickle compared to the nearly 367,000 British postgraduates in UK universities and the 45,800 European Union students who come to the UK for masters and other postgraduate courses. But the competition could spell trouble for UK universities, which have come to rely heavily on postgraduate fees from overseas students.  Read more: Eurogates.Forum   

• In Europe sport jobs are in demand

Sport science and leisure studies has become the fastest growing field for jobs in higher education according to the latest study of movements in the academic employment market.   Over two years, the number of academics employed full time in this area has risen by 19% - more than double the growth rate of staff recruitment in any other discipline and more than 7 times that of the sector overall.

A Times Higher analysis of data supplied by the Higher Education Statistics (HES) Agency shows that between 2003-04 and 2004-05, the last year for which figures are available, the number of full-time academics in sport science and leisure studies rose by 180 to 1,120.

 Read more: Eurogates.Forum     

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