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Our response to Skills for Sustainable Growth

eLearning network news feed - Tue, 08/31/2010 - 10:07

The eLN has responded with the Association for Learning Technology (ALT) to the UK Government's Skills for Sustainable Growth consultation. See our letter here.

Road-testing entrepreneurship indicators gathers momentum

ETF news - Mon, 08/30/2010 - 09:05
As an ETF project to determine viability of indicators for entrepreneurship promotion in tertiary education enters its final phase, ETF’s Anthony Gribben and Jordanian expert Fuad Al Shaikh capture the momentum of an international peer review at the University of Montenegro.

Immigration cap will lead to skills shortages, say employers, The Guardian

CIPD news - Thu, 08/26/2010 - 00:00
The abrupt introduction of a "radical cap" on immigration from next year will lead to major UK skills problems, employers warned today.

London Business School ranked top b-school outside US

London Business School - Wed, 08/25/2010 - 00:00

John A. Byrne, editor-in-chief of business school community website Poets & Quants, cited the “stellar quality” of London Business School’s faculty and students, and how it has “smartly leveraged its location” in the financial centre of Europe.

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Immigration cap will devastate UK companies, employers fear, The Observer

CIPD news - Sun, 08/22/2010 - 00:00
Employers' groups are calling on the government to rethink its immigration cap as figures today reveal that almost one in 10 private sector companies plan to relocate jobs abroad in the next year.

Japan loses second spot to China

London Business School - Tue, 08/17/2010 - 00:00

The Japanese government revealed the country's GDP grew at an annualised rate of just 0.4% in the second quarter, far below the 4.4% growth seen in the first quarter, and the 2.3% expected by economists.

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Preparing teachers for inclusive education in diverse socio-cultural environments

ETF news - Thu, 08/12/2010 - 09:22
The ETF studies on teacher preparation in the Western Balkans are going to be presented at the European Conference on Educational Research (ECER 2010) to be held in Helsinki on 23-27 August.

Christopher Hennessy named “Rising Star” in Finance

London Business School - Fri, 08/06/2010 - 00:00

The “Rising Star” accolade, awarded to only four researchers every two years by Rensselaer and New York University’s Stern School of Business, recognises his body of work, as an academic who obtained his PhD within the last decade.

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Teachers for the future- collaborative agents for development of inclusive schools and societies

ETF news - Wed, 08/04/2010 - 14:41
The Regional Meeting ”Schools for Inclusive Education in the Western Balkans and Turkey” will be held in Şanlıurfa, Turkey, from 4 to 6 October 2010. The event will be a chance to promote respect, tolerance, interethnic dialogue and non-discrimination with the goals of reducing social distance and achieving social cohesion.

Executive MBA students visit South African ICT specialist

London Business School - Wed, 08/04/2010 - 00:00

They were given a unique glimpse of the 'Nerve Centre' of South African firm Integr8, which specialises in ICT solutions such as online security, disaster recovery and infrastructure management for blue chip companies.

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Britain moves towards part-time work culture in wake of recession, Guardian

CIPD news - Sun, 08/01/2010 - 00:00
The UK economy has lost nearly 1m full-time jobs after a dramatic shift to part-time working since the start of the recession, according to a report by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).

"The ref was biased!"

Judge Business School news feed - Thu, 07/29/2010 - 15:15
Research reveals referees likely to favour teams from their own nationality in international rugby.

Epic announce the second E-Learning Debate

eLearning network news feed - Tue, 07/27/2010 - 09:54

Following on from last year's highly successful inaugural debate at the Oxford Union, a prestigious 186-year-old debating society, Epic will be taking the oldest of topics, informal learning, and then weaving it into a thoroughly modern debate motion about learning technologies:

"This house believes that technology-based informal learning is more style than substance."

A highly prestigious speaker list for the event on October 6th at 4pm includes informal learning guru Jay Cross, author and academic Dr Alison Rossett and Professor William Dutton of the Oxford Internet Institute. For more information, visit the debate website.

Job satisfaction dives as GDP rises, Telegraph

CIPD news - Fri, 07/23/2010 - 00:00
Job satisfaction has plummeted to a record low and nearly one in five workers are worried they could lose their jobs, according to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).

Torino Process to help improve Armenian competitiveness

ETF news - Mon, 07/19/2010 - 13:05
The outcomes of a review of the Armenian vocational education and training (VET) system carried out under the Torino process was the subject of a workshop organised by the ETF in Tsaghkadzor, Armenia On 13 July 2010.

Teacher training primary concern for entrepreneurship education policy

ETF news - Mon, 07/19/2010 - 09:45
Policy makers from forty countries underline the importance of more concerted efforts to build capacity of the teaching profession in the bid to bring forward entrepreneurship education.

Stronger relations are a gateway for effective reforms

ETF news - Fri, 07/16/2010 - 16:20
The first national seminar on the Torino Process and the Education and Business Study, held by the ETF in Ramallah on 8 July, has been successful in a wide range of perspectives. The positive feedback on the event seems to be the right gateway to promote Education, Training and Labour Market reforms in the country.

In memoriam

ETF news - Fri, 07/16/2010 - 14:40
It is with great regret that the ETF recently learnt of the death of one of its former colleagues, Cristina Boglia, at the age of 44.

School receives scholarship support for Brazilian students

London Business School - Wed, 07/14/2010 - 00:00

Sir Andrew Likierman, Dean, comments, “I would like to thank this donor for their generosity and support. Scholarships are so important to us as they enable the School to attract and retain some of the most talented and deserving students from across the world.  This gift will have a real impact on the lives of future generations of Brazilian students at London Business School.”

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Future of Europe depends on education

ETF news - Tue, 07/13/2010 - 04:33
'Education plays a major role in four out of seven new flagship initiatives for the EU 2020 strategy, and the role of the ETF in achieving the goals of the ambitious strategy in the field of education and training is crucial'. This was the key message from Pierre Mairesse, new Director of Lifelong Learning at the European Commission, when he met with ETF staff and management in Torino on 13 July.

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