In October 2016 the Minister for Education and Research, Professor Johanna Wanka (CDU) promised five billion euro from 2018 onwards to upgrade the technical infrastructure in German schools as part of her Digitalpakt#D initiative. The federal states (Länder) were required to submit sustainable concepts for digital education and...
Am 21. September 2017 veranstaltet Professor Dr.-Ing. Ernesto De Luca, Leiter der Abteilung Digitale Informations- und Forschungsinfrastrukturen im Georg-Eckert-Institut, gemeinsam mit Philipp Mayr (GESIS), Christian Wartena (Hochschule Hannover), Koraljka Golub (Linneaus University, Schweden) und Douglas Tudhope (University of...
Across Germany, schoolchildren have returned to the classroom after the summer holidays. In the state of Lower Saxony, as in most of Germany’s federal states, children due to start school this year underwent medical and development checks organised by the state’s health authority, the Governmental Institute of Public Health...
Across Germany, schoolchildren have returned to the classroom after the summer holidays. In the state of Lower Saxony, as in most of Germany’s federal states, children due to start school this year underwent medical and development checks organised by the state’s health authority, the Governmental Institute of Public Health...
The start of term on 1 September saw new school reforms come into effect in Poland, which had been announced by the ruling national conservative PiS in autumn 2016. The promised reforms had caused wide-spread protests from ten of thousands of teachers, parents and opposition supporters. Structural changes included in the reform...
In a representative study commissioned by the health insurance provider DAK, the Institute for Therapy and Health Research (IFT-Nord) examined the physical and mental wellbeing as well as the health-related behaviours of schoolchildren in Germany, interviewing approximately 7,000 students in years 5 to 10 from six federal states. ...
EDU|NEWS
Veranstaltung: 11.09.2017
- 13.09.2017
Universität Siegen, Siegen, Deutschland
Die Siegener Sommerakademie ist eine Tagung für Nachwuchswissenschaftlerinnen und Nachwuchs-wissenschaftler, die neben Angeboten zum fachlichen Austausch und zur Vernetzung auch Workshops zu Forschungsmethoden sowie Beratungs-Elemente umfasst. Das Programm erstreckt sich insgesamt über drei Tage, an denen Forschung zur...
EDU|NEWS
Veranstaltung: 11.09.2017
- 13.09.2017
Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden, Dresden, Deutschland
Die Veranstaltung richtet sich an ExpertInnen aus dem Open-Access-Bereich aus Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz, an WissenschaftlerInnen aller Fachrichtungen, VerlagsvertreterInnen und UnterstützerInnen des wissenschaftlichen Forschungs- und Kommunikationsprozesses an Bibliotheken sowie in Forschungsinstituten und...
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Veranstaltung: 09.09.2017
- 15.09.2017
Vancouver, Britisch-Kolumbien, Kanada
The Institute for Environmental Learning is a collaborative of researchers and practitioners committed to high quality environmental and sustainability learning in British Columbia. Our members come from a variety of institutions including universities, colleges, school districts, community groups, non-profit organizations, and...
At its the seventy-ninth national congress, held in Zacatecas, Mexico, the Mexican national farmers’ union (Confederación National Campensina, CNC ) announced its joint intent, with the Mexican government’s secretariat of public education (Secretaría de Educación Pública, SEP ), to tackle the problems affecting schools in...