Contributions to higher engineering education
The book focuses on teaching knowledge and principles (Higher Education) regarding professional practice of engineering (life and lifelong learning). It covers recent developments in engineering education. This book comprises the select proceedings of the conference organised by…
Etude sur la transformation du système éducatif français qui, du modèle de l'école publique, gratuite et méritocratique, glisse selon l'auteur vers un modèle dominé par l'argent, la compétition et la commercialisation de l'éducation. A. Parienty analyse notamment le rôle joué pa…
This book explores how, and if, formal education affects peacebuilding in post-conflict societies. As schooling is often negatively implicated in violent conflict, the author highlights the widely expressed need to 'build back better' and 'transform' schooling by changing both i…
In this open access volume, the editors identify the trajectories and patterns displayed by education systems and investigate the causes of change from a global and historical perspective. The contributors argue that the emergence and development of education systems can be …
This book examines the full range of concerns about self assessment in higher education, placing it in the wider context of innovative teaching and learning practices. The author shows how self assessment compares with assessment by others.
Key figures on Europe - Statistics illustrated presents a selection of statistical data on the European Union (EU). Most data cover the EU and its Member States as well as the United Kingdom and the countries of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA). This publication may be…
This is a book by educators, for educators. It grapples with the complexities, the humanity and the possibilities in education. In a climate of competing accountabilities and measurement mechanisms; corporate solutions to education 'problems'; and narratives of 'failing' schools…
Healthcare and long-term care workforce: demographic challenges and potential contribution…
by Hernández Orallo, José, European Commission., Joint Research Centre, Belmonte, Martina, Conte, Alessandra, Ghio, Daniela, Goujon, Anne, Scipioni, Marco, Kalantaryan, Sona, Gómez-González, Emilio, Gómez, Emilia, Tolan, Songül, Martínez-Plumed, Fernando, Pesole, Annarosa, Fernández Macías, Enrique
In the EU, the right to timely access the 'affordable, preventive and curative health care of good quality' and the right to 'affordable long-term services of good quality' are enshrined in the European Pillar of Social Rights (C(2017) 2600 final). The backbone of health and lon…
1968 haben sich Teile der Politikwissenschaft radikal-reformerisch engagiert. Gestützt auf biographische Erfahrungen sucht der Autor den Grundgedanken dieser Revolte in einem Verständnis von Demokratie, das sich auf die niemals endende Aufgabe der Herstellung demokratischerer Ve…