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Shaughnessy, Julie; Purves, Ross; Jackson, Anita – Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal), 2008
New technologies now offer teachers alternative models of collaboration with schools overseas, but how effective are they as professional development opportunities? The experiences of 18 specialist primary and secondary teachers in the Teachers' International Professional Development Programme who visited schools in the USA were investigated as…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Teacher Collaboration, Faculty Development, Elementary School Teachers
US Congress, 2008
This purpose of this Act is to amend and extend the Higher Education Act of 1965, and for other purposes. This Act includes the following titles: (1) General Provisions; (2) Teacher Quality Enhancement; (3) Institutional Aid; (4) Student Assistance (Grants to Students in Attendance at Institutions of Higher Education, Federal Family Education Loan…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Teacher Effectiveness
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Paris (France). Bureau for the Coordination of Environmental Programme. – 1993
The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) took place in Rio de Janeiro in June, 1992. The main results of UNCED were the Rio Declaration, Agenda 21, Convention on Biological Diversity, Framework Convention on Climate Change, and Statement of Forest Principles. Agenda 21 is the international program of action for global…
Descriptors: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Conservation (Environment), Environmental Education
Kirk, Mary E., Ed.; Rhodes, Aaron A., Ed. – 1994
This publication provides a comprehensive inventory of initiatives undertaken by European institutions and international organizations to assist the transformation of higher education and research in East Central Europe. Section 1 contains five papers, each highlighting one of five institutions that have developed innovative approaches to address…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Finance, Higher Education, International Cooperation
Education International, Brussels (Belgium). – 1998
This booklet presents information on Education International, a group that promotes teacher rights, trade union rights (including teacher unions), fair teaching conditions, and equal education for all people. The booklet includes information on the following: the Education International executive board (name, address, telephone, fax, and e-mail);…
Descriptors: Democratic Values, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education, Foreign Countries
Flekkoy, M. G. – 1993
Since the 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, nations are obligated to submit regular reports to the international Expert Committee, which will require monitoring conditions for children. This study discusses the Norwegian Ombudsman for Children as a useful source of experience for other countries. Chapter 1 presents those…
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Child Welfare, Children, Childrens Rights
Verhellen, Eugeen, Ed.; Spiesschaert, Frans, Ed. – 1994
A number of research seminars were organized to clarify the fundamental principles underlying local, regional, and international efforts to establish a structure for monitoring and promoting children's rights. This book contains papers presented at these seminars by experts on child advocacy, promotion of children's interests by children, and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Advocacy, Child Labor, Child Welfare
Huffman, Dennis, Ed. – 1993
Experience America is a training program for Thomas Jefferson Fellows and Associates (TJFs) that seeks to build lasting links between the Americas by increasing foreign college student participants' understanding of U.S. society and culture and by providing opportunities for them to present information about their countries to North Americans. The…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Training, Cultural Awareness, Foreign Students, Higher Education
Acker, Stephen R.; And Others – 1993
This report describes a collaborative project of Ohio State University and the University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands). Over the course of 12 months, students and faculty from the two universities offered a merged graduate course on telecommunications policy in the European Community and the United States. They reciprocated three week visits and…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Distance Education, Educational Cooperation, Foreign Countries
Virginia State General Assembly, Richmond. House. – 1992
This study of existing guidelines and standards for international travel by students in local school divisions is the result of a Virginia Department of Education team effort over four months. The interdisciplinary team reviewed guidelines and standards for international travel and student exchange programs from major organizations and developed…
Descriptors: International Education, International Educational Exchange, International Programs, Secondary Education
Baron, Mark A. – 1990
The main reason for the establishment of American-Sponsored Overseas Schools (ASOS) was to offer the dependents of Americans living abroad educational opportunities similar to what was available at home. ASOS have several general characteristics, including being privately controlled, nonprofit, nonsectarian, and American or binational in…
Descriptors: Dependents Schools, Educational Planning, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
International Federation of Library Associations, The Hague (Netherlands). – 1983
This manual outlines objectives, functions, and methods for establishing national bibliographic control as part of the development of a worldwide system for the control and exchange of bibliographic information. Chapters cover: (1) definitions of bibliographic control and related concepts including Universal Bibliographic Control (UBC) and…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Cataloging, Classification, Guidelines
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Gray, Mary F. – Educational Perspectives, 1975
Author surveyed the types of international university relations in which the University of Hawaii is involved. She also established the need to recognize the contributions of foreign institutions and contended that mutual effort makes for mutual reward. (Editor/RK)
Descriptors: College Administration, Critical Thinking, Developing Nations, Information Processing
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Downing, John; Dalrymple-Alford, E. C. – Reading Research Quarterly, 1974
Descriptors: Analytical Criticism, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, International Programs
Tregear, Jonathan, Ed. – 1988
This document reports on a regional workshop designed to examine ways that relevancy in participant training can be enhanced in the Consortium for International Development and related institutions, and to develop campus-oriented strategies to implement these methods. Papers, discussions, and work group reports are arranged under the following…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Higher Education, International Cooperation, International Educational Exchange
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