The meeting of the Council of Vice-Chancellors for Scientific Work of Higher Educational Institutions and Directors of Scientific Institutions is scheduled for December 24, 2014, which will begin at 11:00 a.m. Issues to be considered at the meeting: 1. Elections of the presidium of the Council of Vice-Rectors.

According to UNIAN, information has been received from the Government of the country regarding their desire to reduce the term of compulsory education in secondary schools from 11 to 9 years. This is due to the fact that in other European countries, the term of education for children

The BrainBasket Foundation launched an information portal, the main purpose of which is to explain the essence and advantages of IT professions. On the portal, you can also find out how you can become an e-tishnik. The target audience of this informational and educational project is schoolchildren, their parents, students,

Among its priority tasks, the government of Ukraine envisages the implementation of a comprehensive law on education, which should speed up the process of reforming preschool, extracurricular, vocational and secondary education. The government's program of actions, presented by Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, envisages the establishment of new ones

On December 8, 2014, the president of "Seed Forum Global" Steiner Korsmo, co-founder and chairman of the International Charitable Forum "Seed Forum Ukraine", founder and managing partner of the iHUB business incubator Dmytro Podolev visited the Lion City. Within the framework of the program

Albert Einstein's archive is gradually being digitized and uploaded to the Princeton University website. At the moment, almost three thousand documents and texts are available in the original and with a translation into English, starting from the birth certificate

The day before, the Learner Mosaic app, developed by the Kidadaptive company, was released. It was developed by a developmental psychologist and a Stanford scientist with a PhD in the impact of games on education. Both of them

Lublin Catholic University initiated the creation of the Eastern European network of universities, which included 12 universities from Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Georgia and Poland. The corresponding agreement was signed today in Lublin by rectors of higher education institutions, Polish Radio reports. The purpose of the organization is

In order to save budget funds, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine plans to reduce a number of expenses, in particular in the education system. According to Ukrainian mass media, from 2015 it is planned to cancel scholarships for all students, except for orphans, the disabled, the poor and young

ORBIS became one of the largest projects in the field of digital humanities. ORBIS developers from Stanford are confident that such an inquisitive and technological approach to the study of ancient Rome will allow us to better understand how governance was organized

During the work of the round table in the Park of high technologies in Minsk, there was a discussion of issues of further development of cooperation between the IT industry and specialized IT faculties of Belarusian universities, improvement of the quality of IT education, as well as current

The results of the second Times Higher Education ranking of BRICS countries and developing countries were published in London. Higher education institutions from 18 countries were included in the rating. The leading position in the rating is occupied by China, which occupies the second year in a row