Browsing by Author "UNESCO European Centre for Higher Education"

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    Counseling and orientation of students in higher education
    UNESCO European Centre for Higher Education (UNESCO European Centre for Higher Education, 1994)
    There is a growing importance of student counselling and orientation in higher education. Although both have always been part of the university environment, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States, they have been moving closer to a center stage in recent years as a result of the massification of higher education, its diversification and growing complexity, and the increasing types and intensity of pressure being placed on students regarding both their studies and the difficulties that very many of them anticipate in finding suitable employment upon graduation. At the very least, academic counsellors will help students deal successfully with these pressures while making the best possible choices regarding their studies and their future careers. This book compiles a set of papers in this regard.
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    Diversification of Higher Education
    UNESCO European Centre for Higher Education (UNESCO European Centre for Higher Education, 1988)
    During the 1980s, most European countries underwent substantial changes in their economic and educational systems. During the period it became clear that the discussions were going to be centered around the rapid changes being experienced by the higher education systems in practically all the countries of the region in their attempts to adapt themselves to new socio-economic conditions. In particular, much stress was given to the need to arrive at a clearer understanding of the diversification processes which were currently taking place in various higher education systems and of the combinations of factors which lead to such diversification. This book aims to discuss the features, the causes, and the national experiences of the ongoing processes of adaptation of higher education to changing societal needs and diversification of processes that were exerting similar influences on different national systems of higher education in European countries.
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    Diversity of structures for higher education
    UNESCO European Centre for Higher Education (UNESCO European Centre for Higher Education, 1994)
    This book presents many of the papers that were delivered at a workshop on Universities, Colleges, and Others: Diversity of Structures for Higher Education, held at CEPES in 1993 in Bucharest, Romania. Among the compiled themes are as follows: 1) History, Geography, and Economy: Elemental Influences on Higher Education Policy Decisions; 2) Policy Goals for the Future; 3) Legal Construction of Higher Education Structures; and 4) Managing Change.
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    Multi-ethnicity in higher education
    UNESCO European Centre for Higher Education (UNESCO European Centre for Higher Education, 1992)
    The multi-ethnic and pluricultural nature of European societies, indeed of world society, is (or should be) reflected both in the composition of the student cohorts and the staffs of higher education institutions. This same reality should also, of course, be reflected in the curricula, for an important aim of higher education is or should be to sensitize students to the multi-ethnic and pluricultural nature of their societies. From an understanding of multi-ethnicity and pluriculturalism should evolve an appreciation for and the valuing of cultural richness. This report argues in favor of the globalization of higher education, a multi-facetted concept which involves the development of pluricultural attitudes in and approaches to education in the interests of international cooperation, tolerance, and peace.