The proposed £5.8 million Health Innovation Centre at the University’s Stafford Centre of Excellence for Healthcare Education has been allocated £2.89 million under the government’s Getting Building Fund, which is aimed at helping the country’s economy bounce back from the Covid-19 crisis. The project will see the development of a […]
Day: 5 September 2020
Now it’s less than two weeks until the autumn term starts! We look forward to getting started again and have spoken with Åsa Gran who is project manager for Introduction at the University of Borås. How will Introduction this autumn be done for our new students given the coronavirus pandemic? […]
Students from other countries help to enhance Dutch research, the economy and the job market. While internationalisation in higher education is of great value to Dutch society, the rising numbers of international students mustn’t reach extremes. A recent Interministerial Policy Review (IBO) warns that internationalisation could threaten the funding, quality […]
The Minister of Education of the Republic of Azerbaijan Jeyhun Bayramov held a video conference with Vice President of Microsoft corporation Anthony Salcito and the corporation’s regional representatives for Europe. During the video conference, the successful results of the “Virtual School” project – the largest online platform in the country, which was created in a short […]
The daily commute to work is always something special for Holger Kliesch. Before taking the Path Train in Hoboken in New Jersey, he looks out over the magnificent New York skyline dominated by One World Trade Center. “I have run up this tower twice in the last few years, 417 […]
The traditional August forum “August.PRO: a matrix of pedagogical changes” is held in Tomsk. Participants include teachers and university professors, school principals, representatives of regional education authorities and the leadership of the Russian Ministry of Education. The TSPU also joined the discussion of the forum’s issues, and the key speakers […]
The University of Patras was founded in the city of Patras in 1964 and it began functioning in the Academic year of 1966-67, this contributed vastly to the decentralization of Academic Education in Greece. In June 2013 the University of West Greece was incorporated in the University of Patras. In 2019 the […]
The crunchiness of foods such as chips, wafers, biscuits or chocolate will now be measurable. Researchers at Mendel University in Brno have developed a device designed to monitor the degree of acoustic response to mechanical disturbance of certain types of food. They want to patent their invention. The device will […]
In the world’s driest desert, Universidad Católica has established the country’s first research center focused on the components of this unique ecosystem: the sun, fog, land and vegetation. Since the 1980s, researchers at the Institute of Geography have been investigating using fog as a viable source of water. In 1997, they discovered […]
During the week commencing 31 August, the Department of Health and Welfare (THL) will launch the Koronavilkku mobile app, which is designed to help break coronavirus infection chains. University rectors recommend that the whole university community start to use the app. – In this way we can work together to […]