The recent history of European integration has been marked by the Treaty of Maastricht (1992) which established an economic union, monetary policy among the 15 EU countries. This treaty allows among others the free movement of goods, products, services,including the free movement of persons....

How is Europe discovered and studied in France in the school system, particularly at secondary school level? How do we prepare our students to become, not only French citizens, but citizens of Europe? How does giving them the feeling they no longer belong to only one country, constitute a...

Diversity has become an increasingly important issue in the business world as multi-cultural working environments become commonplace. Businesses, operating in today’s global environment, require the ability to leverage diversity by utilizing knowledge and experiences from different groups...

Using case studies in class becomes more and more common with the increasing need to make students experience real-life situations in which they have to do decision-making and prepare themselves for the uncertainties of the workplace. By allowing students to gain hands-on experience of the real...

In the past two decades many voices were raised calling for corrections, restructuring and improvements of the Sudanese educational system. Complaints focused on the weakness of university students. However, their weaknesses were traced back to the elementary, secondary and high secondary...

This paper examines the use of the internet by a sample of 40,000 students from a group of demographically different schools in England. In analysing this usage a number of questions are asked about patterns of learning and lessons to be learned. Previous research and recent writings on this...

The experience of intercultural migration is one of the oldest forms of population movements. Through this phenomenon, different cultures come in contact, interaction and transformation. The individuals involved experience new ways of learning from the new cultures. I studied medical migration...

Two instructional features are available to students in blended courses that are not present in traditional courses. First, online content is available with the intent that it substitute for a portion of face-to-face lectures or other in-class types of material delivery. Second, in-class seat...

Over the past few decades Islamic finance has been the fastest growing segment of the global system. The fast growing market has necessitated corresponding expansion of education and training facilities to increase appropriately the supply of skilled manpower. This called for a stock taking of...

This paper reports on the findings of a survey of top economics graduate schools as they relate to women and men. The results provide strong evidence that at these top graduate schools, women graduate students are less integrated in their economic disciplines than are male graduate students. In...