International Association of Universities

The IAU/Palgrave Prize Essay competition was launched in 2006 to encourage students, faculty, researchers and staff from IAU Members to submit a piece of scholarly work linked to IAU’s work in a specified domain. As well as attracting a monetary prize of £1000.00, the winning article is also published in HEP.

IAU/Palgrave Prize Essay competition 2012

The theme of the current competition is "Higher Education and the Global Agenda" and is linked to the IAU 14 General Conference taking place in Porto Rico, 27 – 30 November 2012.

The closing date for papers is 15 September 2012 and they should be sent to:

Nicholas Poulton
Editorial Assistant
hep@iau-aiu.net

Further information on the call for papers can be found here.

The themes looked at as well as the winners are detailed below:

• 2010 Privatization of Public Higher Education

Reconsidering Privatization in Cross-Border Engagements: The Sometimes Public Nature of Private Activity, Kevin Kinser and Jason Lane, State University of New York at Albany, USA (HEP 24/2, June 2011).

• 2009 Equitable Access, Success and Quality

From Access to Success: An Integrated Approach to Quality Higher Education informed by Social Inclusion Theory and Practice, Jennifer M. Gidley, Gary P. Hampson, Leone Wheeler and Elleni Bereded-Samuel of RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia (HEP 23/1, March 2010).

• 2006 Higher Education and Intercultural Learning and Dialogue

The Two Cultures of Science: On Language-Culture Incommensurability Concerning ‘Nature’ and ‘Observation', Seng Piew Loo, School of Educational Studies, Universiti Sains Malaysia (HEP 20/1, March 2007).