The paper presents an approach to education in software engineering, implemented as a postgraduate course for industry. A distinguishing feature of the approach is its stress on team projects and a flexible way of controlling the proportion between active and passive participation of students. This provides for high visibility of life cycle activities during the project, despite the actual perf...

The emergence of the knowledge society and the development of knowledge-intensive employment functions do not seem to improve dramatically the situation of humanities graduates on national labour markets. This paper gives an overview of the employment situation of French humanities graduates and summarizes recent attempts to improve it. A description of how the employment for humanities graduat...

Small and micro enterprises have a decreasing participation in vocational education and training. There is a real need to engage them in developing a positive attitude towards training. The BOOST (Business perfOrmance imprOvement through individual employee Skills Training) project will integrate outcomes from two previous projects (BECOME and ROLE), in order to develop associated methodologies...

the purpose of this paper is to examine the threats and opportunities that information and communication technology (ict) has created with regard to sexual inequality. research shows that the education of ict, which is concentrated on women, directly increases their media knowledge and modifies inequalities created mainly by the family and the educational system in the socialization process, pr...

INTRODUCTION Interprofessional collaboration is of great importance in clinical practice, particularly in the field of emergency medicine. The professions involved in providing emergency care must work hand in hand, and tasks and routines must be coordinated effectively. However, medical and nursing students have only few opportunities to experience interprofessional cooperation during their fo...

Where participation of small enterprises in vocational education and training decreases, it risks obsolescence of their knowledge base compared to competitors. Currently we are participating in two projects that aim to address the issue of how to boost take-up of informal learning at the workplace: Learning Layers and BOOST. Previous projects [e.g., ROLE] show the importance of having personali...

Background This study concerns the continuing professional development (CPD) of vocational teachers, especially teachers’ work-life competence in relation to their teaching subject. ‘Vocational teacher’ is not a clearly defined profession (Misra 2011; Parsons et al. 2009), and furthermore, vocational teachers work in various vocational education systems (e.g. Billett 2011). However, the startin...