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I just created a Facebook fanpage for my International Higher Education Consulting Blog. If you are interested in international exchange and citizen diplomacy issues you may want to become a fan here: http://tinyurl.com/yktodfz If the link doesn't work you can always search for "International Higher Education Consulting Blog" within Facebook and you'll find it.
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Today I am exploring maths word problems, not my forte when I was at school and I'm not entirely sure I will be any more successful today. My biggest hope is that I can at least cope with Key stage 2 problems.
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I'm a part-time PhD student and must admit I struggle to keep the enthusiasm up for studying. I already have what amounts to two jobs in my life, a few hobbies, and trying to squeeze in the studying too is tricky. Thought I might find some support from others out there (and offer some back of course!) so have been looking for some sort of online space to meet and share. Maybe this is it ...
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COULD SOMEONE KINDLY ASSIST ME WITH THESE SOFTWARES: OPNET VERSION 15 OR MATLAB VERSION 7.6 ? THANKS
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October 15th will be Blog Action Day 2009 and International Higher Education Consulting Blog (http://ihec-djc.blogspot.com/) has registered and will participate. The theme of Blog Action Day 2009 is Climate Change and my plan is to highlight the various efforts and resources in the field of international education that focus on climate change. Examples of what might be included in my Blog Action Day post are: - Social networks/listservs for international educators that focus on sustainability and greening the field - study abroad/exchange programs with significant course content focused on climate change/the environment - Standards of Good Practice - Study Abroad Programs/Providers mission statements and/or efforts in this area In order to produce a good resource I need your assistance! Please take a moment to leave a comment at http://ihec-djc.blogspot.com/2009/09/ihec-blog-will-participate-in-blog.html with information (preferably links) on what your study abroad program, institution, or organization is doing in this area and I will gladly list and provide a link. Additionally, if you know of any resources I should list please leave a brief description with any links in the comment section. Additionally, you can follow Blog Action Day on Twitter at http://twitter.com/blogactionday. Thank you in advance for any suggestions you have. David Comp
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Calling all (postdoctoral) research staff who fancy blogging Vitae is a national organisation that supports the personal, professional and career development of researchers. Vitae is now recruiting core contributors for their research staff blog, which will be launched in October 2009. The remit of the blog will be career, professional and personal development of researchers. To ensure a lively multi-author site we are looking for a team of bloggers to contribute regularly and facilitate engagement by other research staff with the blog. See www.vitae.ac.uk/rsblog for more details and please pass on this information to any member of research staff who might be interested.
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I have submitted my thesis on RGGI to the University of Edinburgh. It is entitled: The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative: Constructing an American Emissions Market
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ICT Will Improve Education and Employability in Zimbabwe In the mid 90’s Zimbabwean government prioritized education and became envy of Africa with highest education standards in the continent. Today, it is a nation characterized with unending university closures and perpetual striking teachers. Zimbabwe government of national unity together with its educationists and academics should start moving towards an approach of recognising, developing and rewarding talents to those who have been affected by the previous poor education system. This is the time to empower the talent of every member of society, regardless of background, beliefs or education. Empowering the talent in this case will simply mean to provide free and fair ICT opportunities to every Tom, Dick and brother Harry. The new government has to ensure our learners get the best ICT training possible to fulfil employers’ requirements especially during this looming global recession. There is currently no robust strategy to address this issue, not that I know of, which is why our children suffered consequences of long stay away by teachers as well as other constraints like lack of transport. If there was plan B in place, like E-learning and ICT, no examination was going to be postponed hence no academic year was going to be lost. E-learning and ICT would have played a pivotal role in filling up these skills gaps and shortages. ICT will recognise and develop required global technical standards and qualifications for the work force in our ever advancing technology. This will in turn generate benefits for employers and other stakeholders, such as giving the workforce externally recognized credibility and esteem, responsibilities and competencies. ICT allows people to enhance their skills or learn new ones. It would be ideal to begin these skills at primary education to secondary up to universities and from independent training providers to colleges, community centres and Libraries or Learning Resource Centres. Thus it is essential and beneficial to inspire a positive ICT attitude towards them at a younger age. Therefore on that note, ICT education should not be a special kind of activity that happens from time to time, but a ubiquitous feature of life. A few weeks ago the Honourable Zimbabwe ICT Minister talked of digitalizing Zimbabwean communities by developing a country website ‘in order to put Zimbabwe back on the world map’. Apparently, for all we know every single person in this planet has seen Zimbabwe ‘on the world map’. Why swallow before chewing? This article serves to remind our honourable Minister that as far as ICT is concerned, we have some way to go before we can claim to walk the talk. Taking ICT qualification as its starting point, education will be really meaningful and serving its purpose of preparing young people with skills and knowledge for work. What they learn for one purpose can be deployed in another. What they will learn in ICT will be deployed in other subjects, like doing a Power Point presentation of the ‘causes and effects of Chimurenga War’ in History. The same power point skills will be deployed in the work place. They will be able to produce a globally recognised Shona or Ndebele dissertation or thesis in word document. They will integrate and interact with each other on intranets and blackboards as and when they want to. However, this government of national unity will have to lead by example and exercise readiness to change. There is an urgent need for publicly funded ICT education and training to learners by making them more productive and employable. The best programmes could well start at schools, colleges, universities and training centres. ICT specialists and consultants should be allowed partnership with the entire education curriculum. These will help in improving and re-skilling our schools. Question, are there right people in the right place to nurture flexible skills and ICT talents? In learning to learn, there is need to train trainers and educate educators. It is the government’s obligation to promote ICT training of staff and ensure they become accomplished ICT practitioners. These trainers will identify urgent ICT needs on staff development and work on those needs to provide cohesion. If the new government was to set an ICT standard to every new teacher perhaps the repercussions of moves to put the training and qualifications of teachers, tutors, lecturers, trainers and instructors onto a more professional footing would be minimal. If every new teacher would work towards an ICT Standard Verification endorsed qualification, there would be no need to re-skill or provide professional development. Teachers and trainers should undertake a minimum of 1 year continuing professional ICT development as a prior requirement. But even then, this government has to stand firm on ensuring that erratic power supplies, weak ICT infrastructure, poor educational funding and an absence of experts would be things of the past. Despite ICT’s potential to help meet Zimbabwe’s educational and manpower needs, the above problems will continue robbing the country of a vital chance at improving its stake in the digital economy. If ICT is to become a key element of Zimbabwean education, the government will need to provide a major program for professional staff development and training. ICT skills are necessary for implementation of ICT in education. The need towards ICT should put special accentuation towards teacher training. This calls for an urgent prepared professional development program to be established to support teachers and lecturers in the effective implementation of ICT. The professional development training required is one that facilitates and ensures that ICT is successfully integrated into the daily routines as well as ensuring that its use will be efficient and effective. This will only be developed with wide consultation. These ICT consultants should be hired to work with education sector to facilitate the adoption of ICT in education. Teachers and lecturers will be offered training and support through their subject areas alongside that for ICT skills.
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I completed my PhD part-time, in my "spare time", on time. Had my viva 28th August 2009 & passed subject to a few revisions. Nearly there! Bottles of rose Cava (for us parents) and lager shandy (for boys), not to mention celebration cake, await us tomorrow. Tonight I'm too shattered, and my head aches. What a day!
