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Publications from the IAU hold significant value for the global academic community. They provide critical insights into higher education trends, policies, and challenges worldwide. By fostering a comprehensive understanding of the worldwide higher education landscape, IAU publications help shape informed policy-making and institutional strategies. Additionally, these publications promote international collaboration and knowledge exchange, enhancing the quality and accessibility of education globally. The IAU's authoritative reports, research papers, and policy briefs are essential resources for educators, administrators, and policymakers striving to advance higher education in a rapidly evolving world.
The following IAU Publications are written by IAU Board Members, expert or working groups, Secretariat Members or in collaboration with Members. Read on to discover articles or papers written in collaboration with or about the IAU; the latest editions of the IAU Magazine, IAU Horizons; the quarterly publication Higher Education Policy (HEP); Policy Papers; and Annual Reports.
Annual Report 2006
The 2006 Annual Report from the IAU provides a comprehensive overview of global trends and developments in higher education. Through this report, the IAU aims to foster collaboration among higher education institutions worldwide.
Annual Report 2005
The 2005 Annual Report from the IAU provides a comprehensive overview of global trends and developments in higher education. Through this report, the IAU aims to foster collaboration among higher education institutions worldwide.
Internationalization of Higher Education - New Directions, New Challenges
The following provides highlights of some of findings of the 2005 IAU Global Survey on Internationalization of Higher Education, reported in Internationalization of Higher Education: New Directions, New Challenges, authored by Dr. Jane Knight and published by IAU.
Sharing Quality Higher Education across Borders
The ways in which higher education institutions expand their activities internationally is changing rapidly and dramatically. Focusing most specifically on those aspects that involve crossing borders in order to expand the educational offer, and which appear to be more market-driven, IAU worked with three other associations to raise awareness of this type of activity and set out principles and recommendations that would maximize benefits for all who are involved.
2000-2004 Activities and Finance Report
This Report is an analytical account of the developments and initiatives undertaken by the International Association of Universities (IAU) from August 2000 to July 2004. These four years have seen marked changes in practically all areas of IAU activity: internal governance, closer co-ordination between different activities, development of substantial working ties with various partners, most particularly with UNESCO and, last but not least, in the administration of the Secretariat and the attainment of a certain degree of financial stability in the course of 2003.
Rapport Annuel 2004
Le Rapport annuel 2004 de l'AIU offre une vue d'ensemble des tendances et développements mondiaux dans l'enseignement supérieur. Grâce à ce rapport, l'AIU vise à encourager la collaboration entre les établissements d'enseignement supérieur du monde entier.
Universities and Information and Communication Technologies
In response to demands from its membership for further research and discussion on the impact of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) on the institutional learning and research environment, IAU set up a Working Group on this topic in 1995.
Rapport Annuel 2003
Le Rapport annuel 2003 de l'AIU offre une vue d'ensemble des tendances et développements mondiaux dans l'enseignement supérieur. Grâce à ce rapport, l'AIU vise à encourager la collaboration entre les établissements d'enseignement supérieur du monde entier.
Internationalization of Higher Education Practices and Priorities
The IAU’s commitment to and interest in the processes of internationalization is reflected in all of the Association’s activities. The IAU Working Group on Internationalization is charged with the responsibility to guide the work of the Association in this area. The 2000 IAU Policy Statement Towards a Century of International Cooperation, and a major international conference in Lyon, France in 2002, are just two examples of IAU activities in this field.
Towards a Century of Cooperation
The conviction that internationalization of higher education and cooperation among universities is not a luxury reserved for some or simply a means to improve others, but rather a necessity for all institutions of higher learning has been growing for some time. In part internationalization is also seen as a response to the globalization of the economy, of the production of goods, in fact of all kinds of human endeavors.
Academic freedom, Institutional Autonomy and Social Responsibility
Academic Freedom and University Autonomy are essential prerequisites for universities to meet their responsibilities to society and, at the same time, a means of strengthening the principles of pluralism, tolerance and academic solidarity between institutions of higher learning and between individual scholars and students. In 1997, UNESCO asked IAU to lead an initiative that aimed to protect these principles on an international level. In this context, the IAU statement advocates the elaboration of a new Social Contract between university and society and calls for a broadly recognised International Charter of mutual 6 IAU SPEAKS OUT rights and obligations, including adequate monitoring mechanisms for its application. The Statement was formally adopted by the IAU 11th General Conference in Durban, South Africa in 2000.
The Buenos Aires Statement on Higher Education Funding
Responding primarily to World Bank policy on higher education funding, as first outlined in the Bank’s 1987 report entitled The Financing of Education in Developing Countries and reiterated in the 1994 guidelines document entitled Higher Education: the Lessons of Experience, the Buenos Aires Statement, adopted by IAU in 1994, articulates the Association’s opposition to the key thrust of these policies.
Kyoto Declaration on Sustainable Development
One of the first of its kind, prepared in 1993, the Declaration urges universities to become active in promoting sustainable development by first enhancing the understanding of the concept of sustainable development and second by adopting sustainable development principles and practices at the local, national and global levels. It underlines that sustainable development is based on principles of mutual understanding and notes that at a global level sustainable development implies changes in existing value systems.