some links 07/23/2015 (a.m.)
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Ukrainians struggling as their economy shrinks - BBC News
tags: dlj .en Украина долг кризис
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Poorest graduates 'will owe £53,000' after grants cut - BBC News
tags: dlj .en .edu education образование деньги Британия долги
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Aerospace Engineering - Matchtech Community
tags: engineering .en dlj инженер Британия работа
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More than half (56%) of aerospace engineers questioned say they are confident the UK will continue to be a leader within global engineering, up 12% on last year’s results, with 63% being confident or very confident about their career prospects over the coming 12 months.
In addition, 53% of engineers questioned believe their company will increase its overseas work in 2015, and 42% expect their employer to recruit more staff in the coming year.
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Highly trained, respected and free: why Finland's teachers are different | Education | The Guardian
tags: education школа Финляндия dlj
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Not only is teacher education in Finland strongly research-based, but all the students on the primary school master’s course are engaged in research themselves - a point of pride for Patrik Scheinin, dean of the faculty. The course aims to produce “didacticians” who can connect teaching interventions with sound evidence, he says. -
It showed that the country was doing some things right, he says, and vindicated the decision in the 1970s to make primary school teacher education a university degree. Teacher training schools are highly sought after by parents, Mättää says. -
from the early 90s, consciously set out to create a new culture of education characterised by trust between educational authorities and schools, local control, professionalism and autonomy. Schools became responsible for their own curriculum planning and student assessment, while state inspections were abandoned. This required teachers to have high academic credentials and be treated like professionals.
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