Не е кой знае какво, но може пък да е от полза на някой.Съдържа кратка информация, събирана предимно от wikipedia на ниво pre-intermediate.(Можете да свалите презентациите за съответните континенти от линковете)
Africa
http://rapidshare.de/files/38406902/africa.ppt.html
Asia
http://rapidshare.de/files/38406965/asia.ppt.html
Australia
http://rapidshare.de/files/38406966/australia.ppt.html
Europe
http://rapidshare.de/files/38406967/europe.ppt.html
Education in Europe
Primary education
In most countries, it is compulsory for children to receive primary education.Primary education generally begins when children are four to eight years of age.
Secondary education
In most contemporary educational systems of the world, secondary education consists of the second years of formal education that occur during adolescence. It is characterised by transition from the typically compulsory, comprehensive primary education for minors to the optional, selective tertiary, “post-secondary”, or “higher” education (e.g., university, vocational school) for adults.Depending on the system, schools for this period or a part of it may be called secondary or high schools, gymnasiums, lyceums, middle schools, colleges, or vocational schools.Secondary education occurs mainly during the teenage years.The purpose of secondary education can be to give common knowledge, to prepare for either higher education or vocational education, or to train directly to a profession.
Higher Education in Europe
Higher education plays a central role in the development of both human beings and modern societies as it enhances social, cultural and economic development, active citizenship and ethical values.At European level, education in general and higher education in particular are not subjects of a « common European policy » : competence for the content and the organisation of studies remains at national level.
However, according to Art. 149 of the Treaty of Nice, the Community «shall contribute to the development of quality education by encouraging cooperation between Member States», through a wide range of actions, such as promoting the mobility of citizens, designing joint study programmes, establishing networks, exchanging information or teaching languages of the European Union. The Treaty also contains a commitment to promote life-long learning for all citizens of the Union. Therefore, the Community has a complementary role to play: to add a European dimension to education, to help to develop quality education and to encourage life-long learning. On 11 November 2003, the Commission adopted the Communication “Education & Training: the Success of the Lisbon strategy hinges on urgent reforms”.
The main tool for putting this ambition into practice is the SOCRATES programme, which contains an action specifically focused on Higher Education: SOCRATES/Erasmus. It supports and encourages exchanges of students and teachers, the launching of joint study programmes or intensive courses, pan-european thematic networks and other measures aiming at the development of a european dimension in higher education.
The second phase of the Socrates Programme will end in 2006 and Socrates will be replaced by new educational programmes. Erasmus will continue to exist as part of the new programmes after certain modifications.
In 2003, the Commission adopted two major communications on the future of Higher Education in Europe:
* Investing efficiently in education and training: an imperative for Europe, and
· The role of the universities in the Europe of knowledge.
At the same time, the higher education sector and institutions are fully involved in the European initiatives presently on-going in the field of e-learning and in the area of Lifelong Learning.
The Bologna process is the restructuring of the higher education system in Europe. The central theme of the Bologna process is to improve higher education throughout Europe by promoting student and professor mobility which will ultimately establish a “European Higher Education Space” by 2010. The Bologna process is named after the Bologna Declaration which was signed by higher education ministers from 29 European countries on June 5, 1999.
Goals
The Bologna process was a major reform created with the claimed goal of providing responses to issues such as the public responsibility for higher education and research, higher education governance, the social dimension of higher education and research and the values and roles of higher education and research in modern, globalized and increasingly complex societies with the most demanding qualification needs.
With the Bologna process implementation, higher education systems in European countries are to be organized in such a way that:
* it is easy to move from one country to the other (within the European Higher Education Area) – for the purpose of further study or employment;
* the attractiveness of European higher education is increased so many people from non-European countries also come to study and/or work in Europe;
* the European Higher Education Area provides Europe with a broad, high quality and advanced knowledge base, and ensures the further development of Europe as a stable, peaceful and tolerant community benefiting from a cutting edge European Research Area;
* there will also be a greater convergence between the U.S. and Europe as European higher education adopts aspects of the American system.
University of Bologna
The University of Bologna is one of the oldest continually operating degree-granting universities in the world, and the second largest university in Italy. It was the first university founded in the western world (AD 1088). The university of Bologna received a charter from Frederick I Barbarossa in 1158, but in the 19th century, a committee of historians led by Giosuè Carducci traced the birth of the University back to 1088. The University of Bologna is historically notable for its teaching of canon and civil law, and is presently one of the most important universities in Europe.
Nowadays the University counts about 100,000 students in its 23 faculties.
The oldest universities in Europe
University of Paris (France)
University of Oxford (UK)
University of Cambridge (UK)
University of Salamanca (Spain)
University of Padua (Italy)
Top Universities in Europe
1.University of Cambridge (UK)
2.University of Oxford (UK)
3.Imperial College London (UK)
4.University College London (UK)
5.University of Utrecht (Niederlands)
6.Institute of Stockholm (Sweden)
7.University of Paris (France)
8.University of Munich (Germany)
9.Technical University of Munich (Germany)
Reputations
British universities tend to have a strong reputation internationally for two reasons: history and research output. Britain’s imperial past, combined with the longevity of Ancient universities like Oxford, Cambridge, St Andrews, and Edinburgh, are the main reasons that these institutions are world renowned. The reputation of British institutions is maintained today by their continuous stream of world-class research output.
