Glion Institute of Higher Education
Paris (ots/PRNewswire) - Glion Institute of Higher Education, a leading business school specializing in hospitality and luxury, has joined forces with The Vendôm Company for the second edition of the "EXCELLENCE by Vendôm" trade show dedicated exclusively to recruitment in the luxury sector. The show will be held ...
Billund, Denmark (ots/PRNewswire) - The LEGO Foundation has announced five recipients of its Build a World of Play Challenge to fund impactful solutions focused on early childhood. A total of DKK 900 million (approximately US$ 117 Million) is being awarded to support organisations that make substantial contributions to the lives of children from birth to six years old ...
Bern (ots) - On October 20, 2022, the plenary assembly of swissuniversities elected Luciana Vaccaro, Rector of the Haute école spécialisée de Suisse occidentale (HES-SO), as President of swissuniversities. Luciana Vaccaro is elected for the period from February 2023 to July 2024, succeeding Yves Flückiger. As Yves Flückiger’s term of office as Rector of the Université de Genève ends in mid-July 2023, he will not ...
Montreal (ots/PRNewswire) - Landmark donation from alumnus Dr. Victor Phillip Dahdaleh will accelerate advances in global health using genomic medicine to inform patient diagnosis and care A landmark donation to support McGill University's renowned genomics research and education programs from UK-based alumnus and ...
The LEGO Foundation and Big Change
New York (ots/PRNewswire) - New digital platform supporting young people's participation in global conversations about the future of education launched by Big Change in partnership with the LEGO Foundation. 'The Big Education Conversation' was launched at the United Nation's Transforming Education Summit in New York. The platform, www.bigeducationconversation.org, has ...
Les Roches Global Hospitality Education
Marbella, Spain (ots/PRNewswire) - As part of its commitment to the development of sustainable tourism, Les Roches, an Affiliate Member of the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) since 2017, has signed an agreement that reaffirms the willingness of both parties to continue their collaboration in fundamental areas ...
Arçelik Hitachi Home Appliances
Istanbul (ots/PRNewswire) - Arçelik, the global household appliance manufacturer, expanded the coverage of its WE-inTech programme works to ensure gender equality in technology and innovation, and welcomed its first cohort of students to its inaugural WE-inTech programme from Turkey, Romania, South Africa and Pakistan. Arçelik officially welcomed 45 women to a ...
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds / Fonds national suisse
Bern (ots) - Last year, the SNSF selected around 1800 research projects for funding. It also launched new funding measures because Swiss researchers are not able to participate in important areas of the Horizon Europe programme. Expanding knowledge and solving problems. That is what thousands of SNSF-funded research teams do at Swiss universities and other higher education institutions. Their curiosity and their ...
Doha, Qatar (ots/PRNewswire) - Qatar Foundation has announced the launch of its Earthna Center for a Sustainable Future, a non-profit policy center, at the annual Doha Forum summit. Building on a legacy of many years of work by Qatar Foundation (QF) in the field of sustainability, the new center will channel QF's education, research, and innovation ecosystem into ...
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds / Fonds national suisse
Bern, 14.10.2021 (ots) - The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) strives consistently and continuously to improve the quality of research. A ban on animal and human experiments would massively restrict the opportunity to gain knowledge and adversely affect Switzerland as a research hub. On 13 February 2022, the Swiss electorate will vote on the initiative to ban animal and human experiments. Acceptance of the ...
Prague (ots/PRNewswire) - Partnership with Coursera boosts the offering after pilot in Summer Zentiva announces the launch of the Zentiva Academy, its new digital learning and development platform aimed at providing its employees with the best opportunities for their professional and personal growth. The program gathers a range of assets developed in-house by Zentiva-Talents and includes training by external partners as ...
Bern (ots) - swissuniversities has concluded a new Read&Publish agreement with John Wiley & Sons. It will provide students and researchers from over 40 Swiss higher education and research institutions access to the Wiley Online Library with over 1'450 journals. At the same time, this agreement enables authors affiliated to these institutions to make their scientific ...
Les Roches Global Hospitality Education
Crans-Montana, Switzerland (ots/PRNewswire) - Les Roches, the highly regarded hospitality business school recently ranked third for Employer Reputation by the QS World University Rankings 2021 is launching the second edition of "The Next Disruptor", a scholarship competition seeking ideas for positive disruption in hospitality, travel, and tourism. With the changing ...
Lausanne, Switzerland (ots/PRNewswire) - Sommet Educationis the only hospitality education group with two Swiss higher education institutions, Glion and Les Roches, in the top four for Hospitality and Leisure Management education in the QS World University Rankings 2021. According to global higher education analysts ...
Lausanne, Switzerland (ots/PRNewswire) - Sommet Education, the Leading Education Group in Hospitality with Glion Institute of Higher Education, Les Roches and Ecole Ducasse, has created a one-of-a-kind virtual student Fair around hospitality, culinary and pastry arts, luxury, innovation, digital programs. Glion, Les Roches and École Ducasse offer an exceptional portfolio of graduate and post-graduate programs focusing on ...
Beijing, China (ots) - Sudeshnar Sarkar, an editorial consultant with Beijing Review, came to know about Laiyuan, located in the city of Baoding in Hebei, the province adjoining Beijing, only at the fag-end of her decade-long stay in China. It is there that an experiment in education started, an initiative that is probably to rural education in China what the reform ...
The technical specification for the use of mobile technology in the education sector has just been revised to ensure better learning outcomes for everyone. Mobile learning has been on the rise for many years but is even more important in times such as these. With virtually the whole world living within reach of a mobile cellular network and having Internet access, mobile technology has ...
Schaffhausen, Switzerland (ots) - Schaffhausen Institute of Technology (SIT) launched SIT Programming School for Children Aged 6 to 13 to help children become the next generation of digital leaders. These days if you're looking to get yourself hired as a coder by international tech giants like Google, Facebook, or Microsoft, you need to start early. That's why SIT ...
Schaffhausen, Switzerland (ots) - The Schaffhausen Institute of Technology (SIT) launched the SIT Academy, an ambitious executive education program that combines Computer Science, Physics, and Business Studies. SIT Academy is built on the innovative SIT Alemira digital learning ecosystem to achieve a unique learning ...
Mumbai, India (ots/PRNewswire) - - As the first appointed international CEO, Saranjit will be driving the edtech major's 1 billion USD revenue goal from these markets in the next 4-5 years upGrad, India's largest online higher education company, in a move to strengthen its penetration into the international markets, announced the appointment of Saranjit Sangar as the CEO - UK, Europe, and Middle East. Saranjit is an ...
London (ots/PRNewswire) - MIT world leader, US universities regress QS Quacquarelli Symonds - global higher education think-tank - today released the tenth edition of the QS World University Rankings by Subject: (https://www.topuniversities.com/subject-rankings/2020) an extensive guide to the performance of 13,138 individual university programs, taken by students at 1368 universities which can be found in 83 locations ...
Doha, Qatar (ots/PRNewswire) - Over 2,000 educators, decision-makers, and experts from over 100 countries will gather in Doha next month around the theme "UnLearn, ReLearn: What it means to be Human" Should schools teach students how to be happy? Will artificial intelligence make teachers obsolete? Can the latest discoveries in neuroscience make our kids smarter? Do ...