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24 octobre 2014

Combatting bullying in schools

http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRP4qIrraW46oa4crCboqTzadd3IE4yTumRAbMvuvR527xT31xml_tozi4By Tracey Burns and Andrew Macintyre. "Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me". So goes the English nursery rhyme taught to children to console them if they have been called names, or teased by their friends or classmates. But no matter how often you repeat it as a child, it doesn’t really make you feel better. Why? Because it’s not true. Read more...

24 octobre 2014

Calculate this country’s GDP

By Patrick Love. Last week, the media reported on the questions Oxford University asked candidates as part of their entrance interview. The questions aren’t designed to test knowledge of facts, but to give students a chance to show how they think about solving problems, whether they can see links between one subject taught at school and another, and so on. One of the questions in history was “How much of the past can you count?”. The idea, as interviewer Stephen Tuck told the Daily Mail, is to provoke a discussion about “all sorts of issues relating to historical evidence. For which periods and places and aspects of the past is data readily available?”. It’s a question you could ask in economics too: how much of a country can you count? And one that the newly updated Understanding National Accounts from the OECD answers. Read more...
24 octobre 2014

Training Workshop for Directors and Executives of Education for Women in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

UIL held a training workshop for directors and executives responsible for youth and adult education targeted specifically at women at national and provincial levels in Saudi Arabia. The aim of the workshop, which took place from 29 September to 10 October 2014 with the support of the Ministry of Education of Saudi Arabia, was to help the participants develop and review gender-sensitive policies and programmes in lifelong learning, tailored to the particular social and economic context of Saudi Arabia. More...

24 octobre 2014

Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in Germany: Building a Bridge to Nagoya

The UN Decade for Education for Sustainable Development (DESD) was instrumental in ensuring the inclusion of sustainability as a key value into educational strategies in German educational provision inside and outside the formal system. A broad coalition of players, including government officials from federal to community level, civil society organisations, the private sector and the media managed to sensitize decision-makers, researchers, activists and practitioners to put the objectives of the DESD into practice, as demonstrated during a national stock-taking conference in Bonn on 29–30 September 2014.
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24 octobre 2014

[Open Call] Web Interface Design Internship

ESN logoThe Erasmus Student Network (ESN) offers a Web Interface Design Internship for students in Higher Education to work on our online projects in 2014/2015.
ESN is the biggest student organisation in Europe. It was founded on the 16th October 1989 and its aim is to support and develop student mobility. As a European-wide organisation, ESN is using multiple channels to maintain an effective internal and external communication with the Network, our partners, associates and stakeholders. More...

24 octobre 2014

ESNSurvey 2015: Make a difference for the next Erasmus generation!

ESN logoThe Erasmus Student Network AISBL (ESN) has recently launched the new questionnaire for the ESNSurvey 2015 edition.
ESN has been conducting this research since 2005 and has collected over 100 000 responses which have allowed us to have a deep insight into students’ situation. With this information, ESN has been able to produce high-quality research reports with many recommendations for European policy-makers, National Agencies and Governments, Higher Education Institutions and students’ associations. More...

24 octobre 2014

Copyright reforms and the rights of authors: ‘Fair use’ versus ‘fair dealing’

http://www.nteu.org.au//var/files/thumbs/a780532dd116f8da145bac8c4c7961bc_e7e2a056b6c5e8722188bac5fbb3550f_w80_.jpgBy Jen T. Kwok. Amidst the astounding technological developments that have transformed how content is created and shared at the start of the 21st century, it is almost universally acknowledged that Australia’s copyright laws need improvement. Multinationals like Google, Yahoo and EBay have indeed argued in Australia for the introduction of a “fair use” exception, as a way to harmonise Australian copyright law with the US, and as a basis to encourage innovation in Australia’s technological industries.
However, as the opponents of the fair use exception are numerous and diverse, so are its supporters.  In December 2013, the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC), delivered a report called Copyright and the Digital Economy, recommending modernisation of Australian copyright laws for an increasingly digital world. More...

24 octobre 2014

The role of universities in city and local growth

HEFCE logoHEFCE welcomes the final report of the City Growth Commission (Note 1), including its specific analysis of the role of universities (Note 2).

  1. The final report of the City Growth Commission is available on the City Growth Commission web-site.
  2. ‘UniverCities: the Knowledge to Power UK Metros’, October 2014. More...
24 octobre 2014

Future financial challenges facing the higher education sector

HEFCE logoA review of the financial health of higher education institutions published by HEFCE concludes that the higher education sector in England faces significant financial challenges over the next three years.
While the projected performance of the sector to 2016-17 is sound overall, this assumes that higher education institutions will achieve their student recruitment targets, and that there will be no further reductions in government funding.
These findings are part of the summary of finances for universities and colleges in a new HEFCE publication, ‘Financial health of the higher education sector: 2013-14 to 2016-17 forecasts’. More...

24 octobre 2014

UK review of National Student Survey – the next phase

HEFCE logoThe review of the National Student Survey is entering a phase of testing and development.
In July 2014 we published two major pieces of research as part of our review of the National Student Survey (NSS) [Note 1].
While the research did not recommend radical changes to the NSS, it suggested that some alterations would preserve the strengths of the survey and address identified weaknesses, including the possible addition of new questions on student engagement and examining barriers to the inclusion of some students. More...

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