Twelfth International Forum on Quality Assessment of Research and Higher Education (FECIES)

This annual forum is designed to meet a wide range of objectives associated with higher education, such as learning about university planning to strengthen research, quality and European convergence, or tools for assessing the quality of scientific research.

• Dates: 9,10 and 11 July 2015
• Place: University of Seville, Seville
• Organiser: Spanish Association of Behavioural Psychology (AEPC), University of Granada, University of Seville

In the twelfth edition of this forum, Antoni Ras, the vice-rector for University Policy at the UPC, gave a talk entitled “University rankings and specialised universities’ difficulties in gaining an appropriate position in them”. A summary of the talk can be accessed at the following link (pp. 51-57).