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IAU Horizons, the Association’s news and information magazine is addressed primarily to IAU Member Institutions and Organizations, but is sent also to a selected audience beyond the IAU Membership such as Ministries of Higher Education, international organizations, national and regional associations of universities and others. 

Published three times a year, each issue is devoted to a special ‘In Focus’ topic of interest and debate for the higher education community worldwide.


Each issue also features the following sections: IAU Activities, IAU Collaboration and Networking, Membership News, New Publications, and a global Calendar of Events. 

IAU Horizons is available in paper format both in English and French and electronically in the Archives section. An overview of topics covered and articles published can be found there.

Vol. 15 - No. 3, December 2009 (pdf, 1.9 Mb)

EDITORIAL, by Eva Egron Polak


p. 1     IAU News and Activities
  • IAU at the UNESCO 2009 WCHE
  • IAU moves to new website
  • IAU International Conference 2009 on the Role of Higher Education in Fostering the Culture of Dialogue and Understanding 
  • IAU International Conference 2010 on the Ethics and Values in Higher Education in the Era of Globalisation: What Role for the Disciplines?
  • IAU 3rd Global Survey on Internationalization
  • IAU and Hokkaido University Collaborative Internationalisation Strategy Review
  • HEEFA Portal
  • IAU/Palgrave Macmillan Essay Competition 2009
  • LEADHER
p. 11   IAU collaboration and Networking

p. 14   Membership News

p. 15   In Focus: Student Learning Outcomes (SLO)
  • SLO at Adelphi University, by Robert A Scott, President, Adelphi University,USA
  • SLO and Accreditation, by Judith Eaton, President, Council for Higher Education Accreditation, USA
  • SLO in South Africa by Chrissie Boughey, Dean, Teaching and Learning, Rhodes University, South Africa 
  • AHELO – A new OECD Project
  • The Debate in Australia, by Antony Stella, Audit Director (Member of the Advisory Group), Australian Universities Quality Agency (AUQA), Melbourne, Australia
  • The Debate in Japan, by Akiyoshi Yonezawa, Associate Professor, Center for the Advancement of Higher Education (CAHE), Tohoku University, Japan
  • SLO – a European students perspective, by Robert Santa, Academic Affairs Committee, European Students’ Union (ESU), Europe
  • The CoRe projects, by Jenneke Lokhoff, Policy Officer, Knowledge and Information Directorate, NUFFIC, the Netherlands
  • SLO and Prior Learning, by Wolfgang Müskens, Qualifikationsverbund Nord-West, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany
  • A Latin American Perspective, by Mirta Barreiro, Director of the International Cooperation and Exchange Office, Universidad del Salvador, Argentina
  • SLO at the University of Qatar, by Shaikha Bint Jabor Al-Thani, Vice President and Chief Academic Officer, Qatar University, Qatar
p. 25   New IAU and Other Publications

p. 28   Calendar of Events



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