Erasmus is known as world’s most successful student exchange programme having about three million students benefiting from a study period or work placement abroad since its creation in 1987. This year Erasmus celebrates its 25th anniversary under the slogan ‘Erasmus: changing lives, opening minds for 25 years’. Erasmus Programme is for many European students … Continue reading
Students at the Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest, will organize tomorrow (Friday, 9 December) a new debate event aimed to find solutions for the problems that Romanian education system is facing. The event that will begin at 14:00h (local time), at the Faculty of Letters in Bucharest, Tudor Vianu Hall, is a follow-up of the debate organized by the … Continue reading
The launch of World Bank’s Open Data Initiative, in April this year, enabled the public to easily access an extensive set of bank’s information, data and reports on climate change, poverty and inequality and other issues. These materials can be accessed for free online through the Open Data Portal. The data catalog is a listing of … Continue reading
Save the Children Romania (Salvati Copiii Romania) posted an online survey on the official website of the organization (Romanian language) that targets the allocation of least 6% of GDP for Education, according to the current Romanian legislation. This intercession aims to draw attention on the deficient funding for the education system in Romania, although it represents the foundation … Continue reading
Occupy the Faculty of History movement seems to have reached its aim of promoting solidarity among Romanian students and finding solutions for the revival of Romanian education system. What are students’ solutions and what’s next? It is already obvious that Romanian education system is failing. The reasons are multiple and it is even difficult to figure out where … Continue reading
Over the past three days more than 300 students joined the debate that takes place at the Faculty of History, in Bucharest. In their attempt to find solutions for the revival of Romanian education system, they came up a list of demands. Here are some of their requests: Education system should be the main priority of the government. The … Continue reading
The students that started a marathon debate on Thursday, at the Faculty of History, in Bucharest, trying to find solutions to revive the Romanian education system, have now a blog and an e-mail address (besides the Facebook page – 1,108 members and counting). Here is the blog where you can find the latest information about the … Continue reading
Tens of Romanian students in Bucharest have ‘occupied’ the Faculty of History since Thursday, 6 PM, in an attempt without precedent to find solutions to revive Romanian education system. 100 hours of free debate are scheduled for this action. Behind this initiative are the students at the Film Society of Faculty of History. Besides asking … Continue reading
It is inevitable for the Romanians not to ask themselves how attractive are Romanian universities to foreign students? And not least, how attractive are they for prospective Romanian students? If we consider the scandals which involved, both, private and public Romanian universities in recent years, what is left is only a big question mark. The ‘universities’ attractiveness’ is … Continue reading
A good definition for Development Communication from http://www.devcom.edu.ph:
