Le président de la Chambre des Députés vient de soumettre au Conseil d’Etat les amendements du projet de loi N° 6283 de modification de la loi de l’Université du Luxembourg adoptés par la Commission de l’Enseignement supérieur, de la Recherche, des Media, des Communications et de l’Espace le 29 mars dernier.
L’ Honorable Député Ben Fayot a déposé le 7 février 2012 une question parlementaire concernant l’organisation de la recherche au Luxembourg à laquelle le Ministre de l’Education Supérieure et de la Recherche a donné sa réponse le 20 mars 2012.
Present: I. Behrmann, R. Bisdorff, L. Briand, M. Cole, S. Ehrhart, E. Friederich, J. Gerkrath, S. Mauw, M. Happold, D. Hiez, Chr. Schommer, D. Scuto, G. Ziegler
Excused: A. Binsfeld, St. Braum, A. Cosma, M. Hesse, H. Hofmann, Cl. Kirsch, M. Pauly, P. Picard, Ph. Poirier, S. Siebentritt, L. van der Torre, J. Van der Walt, E. Weydert
The meeting starts at 16h15
The discharge was unanimously given.
Chair: R. Bisdorff (proposer S. Mauw and seconder M. Cole),
Vice-Chair FSTC: E. Friederich (proposer I. Behrmann and seconder R. Bisdorff),
Vice-Chair FDEF: J. Van der Walt (proposer: St. Braum and seconder M. Happold),
Vice-Chair FLSHASE: M. Pauly (proposer D. Scuto and seconder S. Ehrhart),
Secretary: Ph. Poirier (proposer R. Bisdorff and seconder E. Friederich),
Treasurer: M. Happold (proposer R. Bisdorff and seconder M. Cole).
- Unanimous decision to do hand voting (proposed by M. Cole).
- Unanimous acceptance of the formal nominations.
- New Governance Board chairing style and strategic change under the new presidency of M. Jaeger,
- Collective bargaining negociation is on its road. A consensus is expected to be reached in early summer,
- The UL personel delegation is active in the last phase of the UL law revision procedure.
The AGM finishes at 17:55
Minutes prepared by R. Bisdorff
Luxembourg, March 15, 2012
Dans sa réunion du 30 janvier dernier, la Commission parlementaire de l’Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche, sous la présidence de notre collègue Marcel Oberweis et en présence du Ministre François Biltgen, a examiné en détail l’avis du Conseil d’Etat du projet de loi 6283 de modification de la loi de l’UL.
Un compte-rendu détaillé et fort instructif, montrant entre autre quelque petits signes positifs du lobbying du comité de l’APUL, a été rendu public et peut être consulté ici.
Dear Colleagues and Friends,
The “Conseil d’Etat” has eventually published this Tuesday its official review concerning the revision project # 6283 of the UL Law from 2003 as proposed by the Luxembourg Government last May 2011.
Good news: The “Conseil d’Etat” principally agrees when the proposed revision project aims at enhancing the autonomy of the UL. Interesting suggestions are made, like dropping the presence of the Government representative in the UL Governance Board and creating an internal audit board independent of the rectorate.
The full text of the report (naturally in French) may be downloaded here.
Best Regards,
Raymond Bisdorff
Dear Colleagues,
The forthcoming year 2012 will be marked by the global revision of the legal framework around the UL, the FNR and the CRPs, and the external UL evaluation process.
One of the obvious objectives of these initiatives, often put forward by the stake holders, concerns enhancing of university research production, both in volume and quality, and efficient diffusion into Luxembourg administration, industry and business.
A recent publication in Research Policy by Andrew J Nelson (University of Oregon, USA) presents a complete model of university research production and diffusion and discusses interesting alternative performance measures beside simple counting of publications, citations, patents and licences.
” … Universities, of course, are incredibly – and wonderfully – diverse environments, and this diversity is reflected in the very wide range of activities and subjects pursued under their umbrella. Perhaps, we should not be surprised if, as a result, assessing the production and quality of university research demands an equally diverse set of measures.” A J Nelson / Research Policy (2011)
With this fresh wind in mind,
I wish all you a very
happy and successful Year 2012 !
Raymond Bisdorff
The European University Association EUA has this week published a major new report “University Autonomy in Europe II – The Scorecard”, which compares university autonomy across 26 European countries.
In addition to an in-depth analysis of the current state of institutional autonomy in 28 European countries and regions, the study includes four scorecards which rank and rate higher education systems. Luxembourg is there last (!) ranked in organisational autonomy, first ranked in financial autonomy, and ranked 8/28 both in staffing and academic autonomy.
L’APUL vient d’arrêter sa position concernant le projet de loi n° 6283 de révision de la loi du 12 août 2003 portant création de l’Université du Luxembourg
(Version PDF pour le téléchargement).
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E Méindeg, den 14. November 2011 ass an der Sendung “Panorama” vun 18Auer, den Avis vun der APUL zur Revisioun vum Uni’s Gesetz virgestallt gin. De Gill Goebbels huet Ausschnëtter aus engem Interview mam Raym Bisdorff ageblennt. Hei den MP3 mat dem entspriechenden Auschnëtt aus der Sendung.
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D’après la journaliste Josée Hansen (édition du 28 octobre 2011, n° 43, pp.6-7): “Le projet de réforme de la loi de 2003 sur l’Université du Luxembourg est surtout un rafistolage fait de réformettes. En interne [l'APUL], on regrette que la balance des pouvoirs ne soit pas foncièrement repensée.”
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In the context of the forthcoming revision of the UL and the FNR law, the finding by Diana Hicks from the School of Public Policy, GeorgiaTec, Atlanta US, that performance-based university research funding systems may compromise equity and diversity and above all will not serve the goal of enhancing the economic relevance of research is worthwhile noticing.
“… Although the importance of performance-based research funding systems (PRFSs) seems based on their distribution of universities’ research funding, this is something of an illusion, and the [scientific] literature agrees that it is the competition for prestige created by a PRFS that creates powerful incentives within university systems. The literature suggests that under the right circumstances a PRFS will enhance control by professional elites. PRFSs since they aim for excellence, may compromise other important values such as equity or diversity. They will not serve the goal of enhancing the economic relevance of research …” Diana Hicks, Research Policy (Elsevier), forthcoming 2011
