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Steve Peers For a number of years, the EU has aimed to attract highly-skilled non-EU migrants to its territory. However, the existing legislation on this issue – the researchers’ Directive , adopted in 2005, and the students’ Directive , adopted in 2004 – have only had a modest impact on attracting more students and researchers to the EU, according to the Commission’s reports (see  here  and  here ) on the two Directives, issued in 2011. Consequently, the Commission proposed an overhaul of this legislation in 2013. The European Parliament (EP) and the Council recently agreed on the text of this proposal (for the text of the provisional version of the future Directive, see here ; the final version will be ‘tidied up’ a little legally). As you would expect, the EP and the Council compromised between their respective positions (for those positions, see  here and  here ), which I discussed in an earlier blog post. I’ll examine first the b...

The Centre for Refugee Studies at York University is offering the Summer Course on Refugee and Forced Migration Issues from May 13 - May 19, 2013. The Summer Course on Refugee and Forced Migration Issues is an internationally acclaimed seven-day, non-credit course for academic and field-based practitioners working in the area of forced migration. It serves as a hub for researchers, students, practitioners, service providers and policy makers to share information and ideas. The Summer Course is housed within the Centre for Refugee Studies (CRS), York University. All participants who complete the full course receive a York University Centre for Refugee Studies Summer Course Certificate. Dates: May 13-19, 2013 Location: York University, Toronto Course Fee: $975 CAD +13% HST ('early bird' rate by February 1, 2013) Late Registration Fee: $1300 CAD +13%HST (after February 1 until April 1, 2013) 2013 Summer Course topics will include: Forced displacement: International cas...