Keywords: quality assurance system; quality management; laws and bylaws.
Quality is by definition a set of characteristics of services that on the best way satisfy the needs of users. In higher education, this definition implies that all activities of universities are directed to requirements of users. The circle of users is wide in higher education: from students and their parents, to employers and the widest community. Bologna model of higher education is based on the quality assurance system. Although quality of higher education explicitly mentioned only with the Bologna process, it has always been immanent to higher education and something universities were recognized for. Today, however, quality has to be accessed in an organized manner, using established documented policies, techniques, standards, guidelines, procedures and methodologies, in the form of laws and bylaws. The modern concept of quality means the establishment of quality assurance bodies. These bodies treate quality in all aspects of work of higher education institution and base their activities on the needs and requirements of higher education users - society 21st century, which is denoted as a „knowledge society“, because knowledge has become the primary resource and initiator of society development. Just because that system of quality assurance and quality management should be developed on the basis of laws and bylaws.
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Book review of William H. Boothby, Weapons Law and The Law of Armed Conflict (2nd ed.), Oxford University Press, Oxford: 2016.
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This article tackles the issue of career profile with teachers at the tertiary education level in Cameroon. Whatever the discipline, the mission of the University can be summarized in: teaching, research, scientific progress and support to development. The first three aspects of the missions are often visible because lecturers do teach matters within their specialization and do research in the areas of their competence. As regards the last aspect mentioned (development), there seems to stand a problem, hence a serious question: Is the social environment conducive to such a mission? Is this mission not overshadowed by the first two (teaching and research)? How is this specific mission to be more visible for all lecturers in order to contribute to the emergence of Cameroon in 2035? With regard to researchers in Psychology, it is necessary that they stick to their area of specialization. The aim of current study is to show how the passage from one level of grade to the next follows a maturating progress but remains under the influence its “developmental niche” (Dasen, 2007). This study is grounded in the socio-cultural theory of Vygotsky (1978)), a theory that emphasizes the role of the social environment of the lecturer in the development of his career.
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Sam White: A Cold Welcome: The Little Ice Age and Europe’s Encounter with North America. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2017. 376 oldal.
More...Keywords: information and communication technologies; teachers’ competences; digital school;
The ongoing technological expansion implies a number of changes in the area of modern school, thus influencing the didactic aspects of the teacher’s role in the educational process. The information and communication technologies commonly established have placed the teacher in need to acquire suitable competences in the field of their use and the ability to use them properly in the education process, thus creating a modification of the message content. Although the introduction of digital technologies to teaching has become undeniable, the opinion of students of the teaching specialization at the Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce and the University of Rzeszów seems to be interesting: Do they think that the contemporary teacher is still ahead of choice or already has the necessity of using modern technologies in their work, and to what extent? Obtaining the answer to this question was the goal of the research. The research analysis showed that, according to students, digital technologies should be used by teachers to a large extent but traditional teaching methods cannot be completely replaced by them, they should be used in parallel with them.
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Review: Vasileios Marinis, Death And the Afterlife in Byzantium. The Fate of the Soul in Theology, Liturgy, and Art, Cambridge University Press, New York, 2017, 202 p.
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