In the old former Venetian city of Famagusta, in the northern part of Cyprus, lies the biggest university on the island. It has more than 15,000 students in seven different faculties. The Rector was a professor at the University of Los Angles before he chose to take up this position. Although the task is not easy, especially following the reforms taking place in the higher education sector in (...)
Ce n’est pas parce que l’on est innocent que l’on n’est pas responsable.
L’?cole est cet endroit familier ou redoutable o? nous d?posons nos enfants les matins. Ils y passeront la plus grande partie de leur temps ?veill? pour le meilleur ou pour le pire. Ils rentreront jour apr?s jour, enthousiastes ou d?sesp?r?s, curieux ou l?thargiques, arboreront une radieuse confiance en eux ou perdront (...)
Second Life (ci-après SL) est un monde virtuel en trois dimensions imaginé et créé par ses résidents, représentés par leurs avatars, leurs alter egos, acteurs interactifs téléguidés par leurs utilisateurs. Grâce à SL, fréquenté par dix millions d’utilisateurs, vous pouvez participer à un événement où que vous vous trouviez dans le monde et intervenir en direct dans les discussions et échanges, comme si vous y (...)
Le mythe de la vérité est tellement puissant, qu’il parvient à voiler toutes les vérités…
Pour repenser l’école en fonction des réalités et besoins actuelles – réalités qui résultent des profonds et rapides changements qui ont bouleversé notre société au cours des dernières décennies – nous allons aborder 1) le contenu des savoirs à transmettre : les programmes scolaires 2) la manière dont ces contenus (...)
Academic seminars are generally NOT the kind of material you write home about, nor are they the front-page burning news people are so eager to read. However, last Autumn gave birth to a new species of symposia. It was the birth of an idea about finding out how ideas circulate.
The November 2007 Symposium was the launching pad for Morocco’s social science journal published by Akhawayn (...)
On 11 December 2007, TaiwanIHA, through the Embassy of the Republic of China (Taiwan) in Managua, Nicaragua, granted the amount of US$5,000 for support of the Trial Project CENAPROTO-CIR.
TaiwanIHA sponsored the Center for International Rehabilitation (CIR), an NGO based in Chicago USA, in collaboration with the National Center of Production of Technical Assistance and Ortho-prosthetic (...)
Pour repenser l’école en fonction des nouvelles réalités et besoins résultant des transformations rapides et profondes qui ont bouleversé notre société postmoderne, nous avons abordé dans les deux numéros précédents les programmes scolaires - le contenu des savoirs à transmettre - et l’approche pédagogique - les manières dont ces contenus sont transmis.
3) la formation des enseignants
La formation (...)
At the occasion of the graduation ceremony of the International University in Geneva (IUG) held on 20 June 2008 at the Grand Hotel Kempinski in Geneva, H.S.H. Prince Albert II of Monaco, was awarded an honorary doctorate in recognition of his commitment to the conservation of nature and the environment. Mr. Patrick Odier, managing partner at the bank Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch was also (...)
What is “inclusive education”?
According to UNESCO, inclusive education is seen as “a process of addressing and responding to the diversity of needs of all learners through increasing participation in learning, cultures and communities, and reducing exclusion from education and from within education.” The goal is that the whole education system will facilitate learning environments where (...)
The Executive Master’s in International Negotiation and Policy-Making (INP) is a part-time programme designed to foster understanding of international issues and enhance effective participation in international negotiation and policy-making in a world marked by complex interactions between public and private spheres of activities.
This is a programme designed in particular for executives (...)
Achill in County Mayo is the largest of the numerous islands along Ireland’s Atlantic seaboard. It is a mountainous island with hills reaching over 2,000 feet. The hilly region extends right down to the coast in places resulting in very high cliffs. North and south of the island are the famous Blacksod and Clew bays of the Mayo coastline. For centuries there were numerous agricultural communities inland, but those declined after the Great Famine of the mid-nineteenth century causing many islanders to leave Achill to work elsewhere at certain times of the year. In common with other (...)
The Morpeth Roll, Ireland Identified