university [ polytechnic | university education | university institute | university training | universities and colleges(UNBIS) ]

university extension [ university extra-mural education ]

University Teaching Group [ UT | University Teaching ]

International Congress of University Adult Education | ICUAE [Abbr.]

University Television Teaching Centre

academia

educational administration [ school administration | university administration ]

40. Welcomes the Commission's support for ‘Knowledge Alliances’ and ‘Sector Skills Alliances’ in which higher education institutions exchange information with businesses while developing curricula to address skills shortages; calls upon businesses and entrepreneurs, including small and medium-sized enterprises, actively to develop partnerships with higher education institutions by providing high-quality internships for students and lecturers and capitalising on lecturers' general transferable skills; reiterates, however, that higher education institutions produce cultural content which translates not only into vocational skills but als ...[+++]o into general knowledge, in terms of intellectual experience of reality and of the common values by which people live;

40. Welcomes the Commission's support for 'Knowledge Alliances' and 'Sector Skills Alliances' in which higher education institutions exchange information with businesses while developing curricula to address skills shortages; calls upon businesses and entrepreneurs, including small and medium-sized enterprises, actively to develop partnerships with higher education institutions by providing high-quality internships for students and lecturers and capitalising on lecturers’ general transferable skills; reiterates, however, that higher education institutions produce cultural content which translates not only into vocational skills but als ...[+++]o into general knowledge, in terms of intellectual experience of reality and of the common values by which people live;

Increased student and academic staff mobility within university partnerships (Erasmus Mundus) and structured cooperation for university modernisation (Tempus);

36. Encourages not only the extension and expansion of individual mobility schemes such as Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs and Erasmus for Apprentices, but also the organisation of postgraduate European Masters of Excellence programmes, in cooperation with different universities and with the active participation of businesses, coupled with grants for students and incentives for researchers; believes that such initiatives could also serve the goals of mobility, language learning and the acquisition of multicultural and entrepreneurial ...[+++] experience;