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European Commission launches 'Opening up Education' to boost innovation and digital skills in schools and universities

More than 60% of nine year olds in the EU are in schools which are still not digitally equipped. The European Commission today unveils 'Opening up Education', an action plan to tackle this and other digital problems which are hampering schools and universities from delivering high quality education and the digital skills which 90% of jobs will require by 2020.

QAA Scotland - Reviews Information Co-ordinator role

QAA Scotland are currently seeking a Reviews Information Co-ordinator to work in our Glasgow office for a fixed term. The role will involve communicating with our pool of reviewers (including students, senior academics and international colleagues) and liaising with colleagues in the Scottish higher education sector to ensure the smooth running of a range of activities (including annual reporting and responding to the outcomes of our Enhancement-led Institutional Review method).

Literacy, Learning and Identities - University of Strathclyde Centre for Lifelong Learning

This presentation will argue that learning is not only about acquiring new skills and practices but is also about changes in people’s identity.  However, learning identities tend to act as self-fulfilling prophecies, and so play a critical role in determining whether the process of learning will end with what counts as success or with what is regarded as failure.  This is because identity as a competent learner is shaped by the complex interaction of a number of factors that include past learning experiences and the mediating effect of family influences upon them as well as the norms and va

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