EUROPE: LET PROFESSORS BE TEACHERS TOO
June 1st, 2013
Not enough emphasis is placed on teaching as opposed to research in many of Europe’s top universities concludes an EU high-level group set up to improve higher education in Europe. Its central recommendation is that by 2020 “all staff teaching in higher education institutions should have received certified pedagogical training.” The group, headed by the former president of Ireland Mary McAleese and composed of a number of distinguished European academics plus the chairman of Microsoft Corporation in Europe Jan Muehlfeit, makes 16 recommendations in support ...
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