The Role of Small Enterprise in School Students' Workplace Learning
What is notable about this detailed report is the lack of any reference to the potential role of the web and online learning in workplace training. That said, the report describes structured workplace training (SWT) and surveys perceptions from an employer's point of view, surveying their understanding of SWT and indetifying gaps in their understanding of the benefits and processes involved in SWT. More...
French for Beginners
This link is for me (though you can look at it if you want). Though titled for beginners, it has links to intermediate and advanced lessons. Because I am now a Canadian government employee, I need to learn French. A course in French won't help, because it will take too long and won't match my current level in the language. My solution? Free online French lessons and a lot of practice. More...
John Dewey and The Philosopher's Task
Most educators think of John Dewey as an educational theorist, but philosophers read Dewey as a late pragmatist, a writer trying to balance the needs of the mind with the dictates of experience and especially science, to reconcile rationalism with empiricism. This explains the tension in Dewey's work - and in my own work - as an empiricist eschews the study of experimental result for a less certain enterprise. More...
New Online Education Channel for KRD's Real Cities Local Web Sites
For online news media, this is almost the right move: use the city newspaper website, which attracts readers, to draw attention to other services, such as courses for readers of all ages and educational levels. Available through Knight Ridder's Real Cities websites, the online courses are accessed through the sites' new "education" channel. More...
The Council for Higher Education has called on academic institutions to adopt a controversial code of ethics that would ban lecturers from expressing their political views in the classroom, but academics have opposed the move saying it would “stifle academic freedom”, writes Lidar Gravé-Lazi for The Jerusalem Post. More...Universities are falling behind government targets to increase female representation on their boards by 2020. They need to take action now, writes Jenny Tester for The Guardian. More...Zimbabwe’s institutions of higher learning and research have been challenged to protect their inventions and research under intellectual property laws, writes Whinsley Masara for the Chronicle. More...The higher education minister has said students from institutions of higher education are free to join political campaigns taking place outside their campuses during the 14th general elections in Malaysia, reports The Star. More...Alan Aspuru-Guzik, a prominent professor of chemistry at Harvard University in the United States, who specialises in developing advanced materials for energy generation, is one of 20 newly hired Canada 150 research chairs announced on Thursday. The haul of prominent scientists appears to confirm a predicted brain gain for Canada due to reactionary politics in the United States and elsewhere, reports Ivan Semeniuk for The Globe and Mail. More...Protests have taken place outside the Karachi Press Club to condemn the Sindh Universities and Institutes Laws (Amendment) Bill 2018 recently passed by the Sindh Assembly and seen by its critics as robbing the universities of autonomy, reports The Nation. More.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
