Designing Music Teacher Competences in the European Qualifications Framework

Teacher Retention and Qualifications

In upcoming years, the United States will experience an unprecedented teacher shortage, meaning that the country will need to supplement its teaching force with approximately two million new teachers. The massive shortage will come as a result of increasing student enrollments, mounting retirement rates of current teachers, and high rates of attrition for beginning teachers. Additionally, the N...

Explaining the European Qualifications Framework for Lifelong Learning

Development of a European Framework for e-Government Competences

The term e-government stands for an ICT enabled transformation of the public sector. New forms of collaboration and inter-organizational public service networks become feasible, to fulfill public tasks more efficiently and effectively. Even though e-government is being promoted by the EU, tangible results are rather scarce. The European Commission and the EU member countries therefore strive fo...

Introduction: Contested Competences in the European Union

In this article, we set out an approach to European Union politics that seeks to explain its development using theories of institutional change. In contrast to dominant theories which assume that the Treaties, the governing texts of the European Union, faithfully ensure that the desires of member states are respected, we argue that these theories are incomplete contracts, rife with ambiguities....

Profile and competences for the European dentist.

This paper presents the profile and competences for the European Dentist as approved by the General Assembly of the Association for Dental Education in Europe at its annual meeting held in Cardiff in September 2004. A task-force drafted the document, which was then sent to all European Dental Schools. Reactions received were used to amend the document. European dental schools are expected to ad...