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Commission & Council adopted draft Joint Report Education and Training in a smart, sustainable and inclusive Europe towards ET 2020, with areas to be confirmed as priorities for ET 2020. For Council Agenda for 6-1-12 in view of adoption under Danish presidency 2012.

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ECNAIS Press Kit  ECNAIS Press Kit (at bottom of page) about The Independent Sector & Diversity in Education: Creating a Learning Society. With presentations from & interviews with the speakers and an overview article of the conference at Warsaw plus photo's.

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Council conclusions communication disorders in children at early phase, full text

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EP resolution Agenda for New Skills and Jobs & regrets educ. budget cuts in MS (p.16,17,35)

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European Hearing results on Special Needs Education with Young views on Inclusive Education. Quote of young viewer Dagur Johannson from Iceland: "We are all different colours and together we can make a rainbow and make the world brighter".

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Diversity in practice: School partners for cooperation projects. Recent questions for Comenius partner search from Istanbul (6 different proposals), Turkey in general, Germany (ecological research), Spain (knowing our ancient history makes us more tolerant). General sites to find school partners: All LLL programs;  e-twinning; British Council partner search (free registration for schools outside UK).

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Schools in England & Finland with support of EU work towards a Educational Passport for Migrant Children (EPMC) in MILE project.

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27 Feb, Paris: Skills for a low carbon economy: what next? OECD-Cedefop Green forum

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29 Feb-2 Mar: NAIS conference Seattle: Innovation, imagine, invent, inspire, dream

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19-21 Apr, Bratislava: ECNAIS annual conference: Innovation & Entrepeneurship in Education

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Publications of EU: Glossary of Quality in Education & Training, an update of the ealier Glossary of Quality in Training 2003. Structure of the European Education Systems 2011/12. Compulsory Education in Europe 2011/12. The Challenge of Shadow Education (private tutoring).

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Research about ‘deviant behavior’ confirms value of diversity in that perspective to. To start with the neurologically proven mechanism that negative feedback until 11-13 years is ineffective (prof. Martin Korte). ADHD children tend to think more creative. And gesturing while thinking seems stimulating for good thinking as well. Whereas around 10% of the people are dyslexic, around 35% of entrepreneurs seem to be dyslexic. A lot of them reveal the reading disorder as a gift that aided to their success, in recent research and Journey into Dyslexia film (incl. good infosite).

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European Journal of Education (dec'11): on becoming a teacher.

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Teacher Education in Europe, a ETUCE policy paper.

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Teacher Education for Inclusion Across Europe, Challenges and Opportunities Synthesis report project. by European Agency for Development of Special Needs Education with review of intern. policy statements &  research literature of teacher education (for inclusion).

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Methods and Instruments for Evaluation and Monitoring of Vocational Ed and (Teacher) Training systems, theme issue Research in Comp. & Intern. Ed, (esp. about Montenegro, UK & Austria and a review of peer review and peer learning practies.

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Cedefop: LifeLong Guidance accross Europe. Reviewing Policy progress 2007-2010 and future prospects like CMS (Career Management Skills)

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Pupils in eTwinning, Case studies on pupil participation publication.

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About Challenges of independent schools and diversity. With Jolanta Kaluza (Poland - KFON) and Sigirdur Gudjonsdottir & Margret Theodorsdottir (Iceland -SSSK). Further research article about diversity follows Januar.