Nuremberg U-Bahn station “Walther-Rathenau-Platz, 6 März 2010 Photo: tofoto About the prohibition on thinking, avoiding the taboo of comparisons, see: Holy Adolf. Is it possible to compare Bush with Hitler?; An ana…
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Huge Cost of Low Performance in Education
January 29, 2010
Check out this video interview with Andreas Schleicher, head of the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment. The Lisbon Council hosted Andreas for the launch of his new study on the huge cost of low performance in education. The study holds important lessons for Europe, especially as we reflect on the substance of the EU… » read more
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Andreas Schleicher, education, English, EU Priorities and Opinion |
Toulouse Film Festival
January 23, 2010
As fewer legal professionals nowadays still take an interest in defending human rights, the city of Toulouse stands out as a shining example to the contrary. The well-known organisations such as Avocats sans frontieres, Cimade, the Institut d’Etudes Politiques and others organise regular events bringing human rights to the top of the political and civic… » read more
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33352, education, English, film Festival, Human Rights, Languages and Culture, Toulouse |
Montenegro facing first student protests in its history!
October 7, 2009
Today, October 7th 2009, student groups will organize a first massive demonstration in Montenegro, ever. Unlike neighbouring Serbia and Croatia, Montenegro never experienced student protests or other forms of youth rebelism. The reason for the first student gathering in the capital of Montenegro – Podgorica, is unacceptable politization of Montenegrin education system, and influence of… » read more
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27845, education, English, Enlargement and Neighbours, Montenegro |
Visualising complexity
October 4, 2009
I started out as a science journalist before moving to Europe, so I’ve always loved explaining complex things. Unfortunately, although I love words, they’re often not enough – nothing beats an infographic, or better a narrated animation, to really get complex things across. Unfortunately, I’m a rubbish artist, so until recently all I could do… » read more
Why university-business links could be bad for innovation
August 31, 2009
There is a movement afoot to bring the education and industry sectors closer together. The European Commission is on board, industry is thrilled and business schools see a market opportunity. Some go as far as to suggest that industry should have input into university curricula. The prevailing logic runs like this: Industry and innovation are… » read more
Lately, series of events taking place in the Turkish Cypriot community, remind of days that a lot of us were happy that passed. The ruling National Unity Party (UBP), after banning the use of the word ‘Turkish Cypriot’ in favour of ‘Turks of Cyprus’ in the media that controls (in a similar tactic to the… » read more
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education, English, Enlargement and Neighbours, Languages and Culture, Uncategorized |
Barroso le révolutionnaire…
June 18, 2009
“The act is the symptom of the crisis of the bourgeois education system”
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Barroso, education, English, EU Priorities and Opinion, Portuguese |
On Thursday 11 June, I attended, as part of the EULAR conference in Copenhagen – Europe’s largest conference on Rheumatology – the session “Structure modification in osteoarthritis: Time to update the guidelines”. What became really apparent was that rheumatologists from Europe and North-America are seriously concerned about the exponentially increasing prevalence and incidence of osteoarthritis… » read more
Have we forgotten our history?
June 15, 2009
The columnist, Gwynne Dyer, has drawn my attention to an article, written by Colonel Sergei Kovalev, Director of the scientific research department at the Institute of Military History. It is entitled “Fictions and Falsifications in Evaluating the USSR’s Role On the Eve of the Second World War.” Kovalev asserts that the Poles, not the Germans,… » read more
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education, English, Enlargement and Neighbours, EU, Germany, History, international, Polish, Russia |
La place de la recherche et de l’enseignement supérieur dans une Europe des connaissances
May 7, 2009
Nous demandons que l’Université échappe aux règles de concurrence. Fixé en 2000, l’agenda de Lisbonne organise les conditions de l’Espace européen de Recherche (ERR). Les objectifs récemment mis à jour visent à construire un marché commun de la connaissance, au service de la seule initiative économique. Or c’est d’une société de la connaissance dans laquelle… » read more
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education, Education / Research & Development, English, EU Priorities and Opinion |
We ask that Universities be freed from rules of competition. Set in 2000, the Lisbon Agenda sets the terms of the European Research Area (ERA). The recently updated objectives are designed to build a common market for knowledge, at the service of a single economic initiative. But it is a culture of knowledge where research… » read more
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ARCHIVE, education, Education / Research & Development, English, EU Priorities and Opinion |
Transfer to Budapest
April 5, 2009
While the last participants are still recovering and assimilating their great experience in Ljubjlana, a new group of European students is ready to start dealing with Education in the city of Budapest. Ljubjlana let us a big amount of results concerning multiculturalism in different fields, such as multilingualism, education in diversity among the countries, policies… » read more
Article published in EDRi-gram 7.6 Several alarming amendments to the Telecom Package second reading in the European Parliament are to be voted on 31 March 2009 by ITRE/IMCO committee. The amendments are meant to give additional control to the entertainment industry, telecoms and IT security companies over the Internet. An agreement on several delicate issues… » read more
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Competition, Economy & Euro, education, English, Telecom Package, Trade & Industry, Transport & Services |
What about European schools outside Brussels and Luxembourg?
March 25, 2009
Sir, Regarding ‘Unreformed European school system ‘might collapse’‘: Thank you for reporting about the European schools and the public hearing about the system in the European Parliament. I draw your attention to a comment made by one of the parents during the hearing: when talking about the European schools and the issues connected to them,… » read more
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education, English, EU Treaty & Institutions, European School System, Languages & Culture, Social Europe |
Unreformed European school system ‘might collapse’
March 23, 2009
As published by EurActiv.com: The European school system “might soon collapse” if not reformed, European Commission Vice-President Siim Kallas told a public hearing in Brussels last week (19 March), citing “alarming signs” like lack of teachers, cumbersome decision-making procedures and governments’ unwillingness to invest in infrastructure. Acknowledging that reforming the European school system is a… » read more
News from the EIT – Will the force be with us?
December 4, 2008
Yesterday I had the pleasure to listen to EIT Board Member Prof Karen Maex, vice-rector of KU Leuven, at an event on the Eindhoven High-Tech Campus and today we had an ERRIN policy briefing with Thomas Sanders of the EIT Task Force in DG EDUC, who briefed ERRIN members on the state of play of… » read more
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education, EU Institutions, EU programmes, innovation, Innovation and Growth, Knowledge, Structural Funds |
New study finds universities should become more inclusive
November 20, 2008
A new study on “University Systems Ranking: Citizens and Society in the Age of Knowledge” published today by the Lisbon Council finds that European university systems, in particular in “Romano-Germanic countries”, are inadequate to deliver the education needed by modern, knowledge-based economies. It recommend that countries should do more to make their education systems […]… » read more
JMECE Lab Newsletter: Second edition!
September 8, 2008
Highlights of this edition: – European Union: Closer than you thought! – by Judith Schilling, Publication Manager, European Commission Representation in UK. – Invisible? Unintelligible? Pointless? Euro elections in historical perspective – by Juliet Lodge, Prof. of European Studies, University of Leeds. – Harvard Conference on Networks in Political Science – by Francisco […] Original… » read more
Education
September 1, 2008
Politicians at European level have recognized that education and training are essential to the development and success of today’s knowledge society and economy. Nowadays, lifelong learning is key to jobs and growth, as well as to allow everyone the chance to participate fully in society. The EU’s strategy on Education emphasizes countries working together and… » read more