Many language teachers, teacher educators and second language acquisition researchers have expressed the conviction that the primary aim of foreign language teaching is to enable learners to communicate with people from different linguistic and cultural backgrounds in an increasingly multicultural world.
According to the Society for Human Resource Management, critical thinking will be an essential requirement for companies to recruit employees. Therefore, it is important to help workers develop this skill.
Read Eurydice’s latest publication, the report outlines how reading, writing and literature are the subject areas that take up the largest share of instruction time, especially in primary education.
Blockchain is an emerging technology, with almost daily announcements on its applicability to everyday life. It is perceived to provide significant opportunities to disrupt traditional products and services due to the distributed, decentralised nature of blockchains, and features such as the permanence of the blockchain record, and the ability to run smart contracts.
Read Eurydice’s latest publication The Structure of the European Education Systems to find out how each country organises their education systems.
17. November 2017 – Der OeAD und die österreichischen Hochschulen haben eine Publikation zu Beispielen guter Praxis von Auslandsmobilität und der Reflexion von interkulturellen Erfahrungen vor Ort veröffentlicht. Das Handbuch “Grenzen überschreiten – Facetten und Mehrwert von qualitätsvoller Auslandsmobilität in der Hochschulbildung” richtet sich an Studierende, Lehrende, junge Forscherinnen und Forscher, das Hochschulpersonal sowie an […]
This Eurydice report contains an overview of the main features of national fee and support systems. In addition there are more detailed information on each individual country. It presents the reality of fees and financial support available to students in public or government-dependent private higher education institutions for all cycle students in 2017/18. For students […]
Jedes Jahr legen das New Media Consortium und die EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative den Horizon Report vor, der die wichtigsten technologischen Trends in der Bildung zusammenfasst. Der Teil, der die Hochschulbildung betrifft, liegt jetzt in deutscher Übersetzung vor und ist auf den Internetseiten des Multimedia Kontors Hamburg abrufbar. Der Horizon Report ermittelt kurz-, mittel- und […]
Von 2014 bis 2016 waren zahlreiche Vortragende zum Thema Internationalisierung aus unterschiedlichen Länder an Hochschulen in Österreich zu Besuch, deshalb wurde die “International Lectures” ins Leben gerufen, wo man alle diese Interessante Vorträge und Diskussionen zusammengefasst finden kann.
This article talks about the problems we have in our regular education. It provides examples of what has not worked well, and shows why, parents – indeed, all citizens – should care more about education. Governments, schools and teachers have a frontline role to play here, hand-in-hand with students themselves and parents. The report has […]