The ECTS, European Credit Transfer System, is now widely used throughout higher education institutions as it facilitates student mobility within Europe and the comparison of study programs and courses. Most European institutions provide students with the number of ECTS each course and module is worth. A full-time student needs to complete 60 ECTS…

In a typically monolingual state, those students who do possess a second language are poised to better integrate themselves into the international business community, yet, possessing (for example) a Spanish degree does not indicate proficiency. Unless students have been exposed to a variety of subjects relating to law, health care, business, and…

Throughout much of the 20th century, English departments were the crown jewels of the humanities. Exposure to great literature was often considered essential for students expected to assume lead roles in business, law, government, and society. Today, English departments have lost their position at the center of the American university. Enrollments…

Colleges and universities across the country are seeing their bond ratings drop and their budgets shrink. Employers complain that college graduates are not prepared for the workplace, and many students find themselves saddled with considerable debt and no job to show for it. These are trying times for parents, for students, and for institutions.…

Finland has performed, as one of the first Bologna countries, a national evaluation of the outcomes of the implementation of the Bologna process. The evaluation was organized by the Finnish Higher Education Evaluation Council and performed by an independent expert group during 2010. In general, the reform was conceived as a significant development…

Paper delivered at the 10th Annual Meeting of the National Council of State Supervisors of Foreign Languages, December 1, 1969, in New Orleans, Louisiana. (DS)

The new British University began teaching in January, 1971, is financed by the Department of Education and Science, is open to all 21 and over, has no academic entry requirements. Using multimedia, having no restrictions on time used to build course credits toward degrees, it will build to an undergraduate population of over 40,000 part time…

Reprint from "The Foreign Language Courier , No. 42, June 1969. (DS)

Address delivered at the 1970 Southern Conference on Language Teaching in Jacksonville, Florida, February 20, 1970. (DS)

Provides an account in 1988 of 23 university history departments in the United States from a British visitor's perspective. Traces the history of the curriculum, comparing history departments in terms of curriculum, curricular change, general education requirements, requirements for a history major, departmental academic planning, teaching methods…

Traces the 50-year history of the Master of Education degree. Notes that the degree has responded to the changing needs of students with variety and choice of programs and courses, greater emphasis on independent research and learning, and the recognition of the professional needs of experienced teachers. (JHZ)

This report to the Arizona State Legislature describes a model transfer system developed by the Transfer Articulation Task Force, a cooperative effort among the state's universities and community colleges to improve articulation and transfer. Following an introduction to the Task Force, elements of the proposed transfer model are reviewed,…