A manifesto for higher education, skills and work-based learning

Investigating the necessity of designing a curriculum for learning and study skills in the Iranian higher education system

Introduction: Lack of knowledge of reading skills causes students not to get good results from their efforts. Designing a curriculum for learning and study skills is very important in improving the quality of the educational system and individual empowerment of students. The purpose of this study was to investigate the need to design a curriculum for study and learning skills in the Iranian hig...

Inquiry-Based Learning: A Model for Improving the Humanities in Iranian Higher education

The humanities in Iran face major challenges: the challenge of graduate unemployment, the challenge of localization, the challenge of the reason for attending classroom and the challenge of dissertations and articles without identifying and structuring real problems. To resolve these challenges, different approaches have been presented by the theorists. This article analyzes the problematic sta...

Ecompetence Skills for Adaptive Learning Environments in Higher Education

Adaptive Learning Environments (ALE) in Higher Education aim to provide academics with flexible learning tools that fulfil the needs of a heterogeneous learning community. ALE can be used to enhance traditional teaching as well as web-based instruction and can promote the implementation of alternative, open modes of learning and instruction. The utilisation of ALE in the educational process req...

Vietnam: Higher Education and Skills for Growth

Manifesto for a higher Tc

The 2008 discovery of superconductivity in Fe-based pnictides (compounds of the elements from Group V: N, P, As, Sb, Bi) with transition temperatures Tc reaching almost 60 K was, arguably, among the most significant breakthroughs in condensedmatter physics during the past decade1. The excitement was enormous and so were the efforts — the amount of data obtained for Fe-pnictides over the previou...