Category: Education
10 Easy and Effective Team Building Activities
Want your business to have more cohesive, coordinated, and communicative working groups? Why not join the thousands of businesses around the world in setting aside time for team building activities! Research has proven that well-designed team building activities not only boost participants’ goal-setting, communication, role-clarification, decision-making, and problem-solving skills but also increase overall job satisfaction. Interested in trying some out with your employees? Check out our Top 10 list! Top 10 Team Building Activities The best team building activities are collaborative (rather than competitive) and have a clear focus. For instance, the goal of the activity may be to break the ice, strengthen interpersonal communication, or encourage creativity. The following activities are tried and tested, fun and functional. Back-to-back drawing Focus: Communication, ice-breaking For this activity, give everyone a picture, some paper, and a pencil. Sit them back to back, so that they can’t see their partner’s picture or paper. ...
TOP 12 MOOC and online training for free
MOOC or also known as the one of the newer ways to learn and study for those who want to grow their skills across any level. These courses are mostly for people who are not able to access real education for many reasons like financial problems, time, and disability, access to education or due to many other reasons. Here are some of the open institutes that offer MOOC like courses: #1 - EdX – This is owned by the Harvard and the MIT University. They are one of the largest providers of MOOC education and also internationally. There are various topics including, business, biology, computer science, chemistry, economics, finance, electronics, science, statistics and more. (more…)
Why In-House Training is Important for Employees Motivation
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How Close are Universities and Schools to Real Market Opportunities in the EU?
There are noticeable differences in educational systems everywhere in the EU. In Eastern Europe for instance, there is a very old system, which poses obligatory exams, tests, grades, as well as a program, which is carefully chosen for the young ones so that they can be prepared for their future profession. However how well does this really work? It is easy to fill some heads with an abundance of knowledge and then send them off to seek their fortune on their own. However, a factor, which is commonly forgotten, stands in their way – technologies and knowledge in general constantly keep evolving, so many young people are forced to educate themselves outside of university in order to cover the giant demands of employers. Without any extracurricular activities, which really count, and a shadowing of EU programs for market placement, Eastern European countries are commonly considered weak when it comes to ...
How to work like interpreter in EU Institutions
When it comes to the European Union one would come across several EU members states and each of them have their own culture, identity and language. The EU is comprised of member states that speak various languages which is why there is a need for translators in the EU. EU laws, rules and regulations affect all member states. Since not too many states within the EU speak the same language as the other, there is a need for interpreters and translators who can help translate conversations, laws and rules into other languages. This is important for communicating with other nation states. People interested in becoming translators have to win competitions held by the EU every three years. While permanent translators work permanently, according to their contracts, there are temporary staff translators (who work for 2 or 4 years) and contract staff translators (who for up to 36 months) too. ...
Vittra, a particular kind of school in Sweeden
It is well known fact that not all of the many international schools worldwide, follow a similar curriculum. With the presence of thousands of reputed international schools round the world, there is a varied pattern of imparting education to students. Notably, we find some of the reputed international schools having an American, British or any other slant. Whereas, some international schools call themselves to be an international school only because they claim to have adopted multiple teaching approaches in different formats. They believe such a move allows them to call themselves an international school. This trend eventually reached the EU countries and as a result, several new international schools have been started. However, there are a few schools which have put notable efforts in imparting education according to the global quality standards. One of them is the much appreciated Vittra International School in Sweden. There has been numerous Swedish initiatives ...