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As pressure grows on higher education institutes to raise their economic competitiveness and live up to new social responsibilities, a forward-looking study on the subject argues that future universities could well face a "mission overload".
The French Senate has proposed developing a new European university ranking system to counter the powerful Shanghai world ranking, which is said to favour English-language institutions. With France holding the EU's six-month rotating presidency, the issue is likely to be discussed by EU education ministers in November.
Promoting a multilingual economy, giving citizens access to European Union information in their own languages and encouraging linguistic diversity through langauge learning: these are the principles underpinning the Commission's multilingualism policy. (read more)
The Commission proposes to establish a European Institute of Technology (EIT), on the model of the famous MIT based in the US, to link the three aspects of the 'knowledge triangle' - research, education and innovation. (read more)
In a joint effort, industry and the EU seek to make as many EU residents as possible computer-literate. (read more)