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New LABlearning resources coming up...

Posted April 28, 2012 - 11:48

LABlearningAs we know that many of you are interested in offering young people with poor educational and life perspectives new learning opportunities, we would like to draw your attention to some things being developed in the EU LABlearning project.

World Bank Open Knowledge repository

Posted April 24, 2012 - 18:55

It has been announced this week that the World Bank is providing free open access to many of its influential publications and reports from a single website - the open Knowledge repository. The World Bank covers a wide range of areas. Particularly useful are the world development reports, there is also coverage of economics, education, development and the environment.

Cedefop Briefing Note - Europe's skill challenge

Posted April 24, 2012 - 18:52

The main findings of Cedefop’s latest skill demand and supply forecast for the European Union (1) (EU) for 2010-20 (Box 1), indicate that although further economic troubles will affect the projected number of job opportunities, the major trends, including a shift to more skill-intensive jobs and more jobs in services, will continue.

Spanish Government agrees on the creation of an Expert Committee to reform the university system.

Posted April 24, 2012 - 18:48

The Spanish Council of Ministers has approved the creation of an Expert Committee to reform the Spanish university system which, as was asserted by the Minister for Education, Culture and Sport, "is an absolute apriority".

José Ignacio Wert explained that in the last few years university education has expanded greatly in Spain. "We have more than 1.5 million students who have been receiving increasingly more public resources"; spending per student is the same or higher than the OECD average, but the situation "is not satisfactory", he stated.

Rio+20 Voluntary Commitments - Commit to the Future We Want

Posted April 24, 2012 - 18:41

All Stakeholders are encouraged to make and implement voluntary commitments at Rio+20 in order to reduce poverty, advance social equity and ensure environmental protection on an ever more crowded planet to get to the future we want.

 

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