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Brussels (BE), April 2021 - On 31 March 2021, The European Trade Union Committee for Education (ETUCE) held the online conference "Education in Europe from Resistance to Recovery: Public Investment, Privatisation, Reforms, and the Role of Industrial Relations". This was the final event showcasing a yearlong research project coordinated by ETUCE under the title "Social Dialogue and Industrial Relations in Education: the Challenges of Multi-level Governance and of Privatisation in Europe". More than 100 participants attended the event and engaged with a panel of expert speakers from the academic community, civil society organisations, government, and representatives of European institutions. » MORE

Bristol (UK), April 2021 - The Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult (CGT Catapult) has selected the Agylia learning management system (LMS) to provide the advanced therapies and vaccine manufacturing industry with access to the latest training resources, enabling the upskilling of talent to meet the predicted skills demand in this space. » MORE

New Delhi (IN), April 2021 - The Hero Group has announced the launch of a new edtech company, Hero Vired, under its umbrella. The edtech venture is envisioned as creating an end-to-end learning ecosystem that offers learners overall professional development and makes them industry ready for emerging jobs and professions. » MORE

Dunfermline (SCT), April 2021 - When it comes to corporate learning and development, never has the need for external consultancy services been greater, believes the digital learning and assessment specialist, eCom Scotland. » MORE

Baltimore, MA (USA), April 2021 - eCreators by Open LMS is launching weekly eLearning courses for any organization to download and integrate into their LMS. » MORE

Montreal, QC (CA) / Pasadena, CA (USA), April 2021 - McGill University and University of the People (UoPeople) have announced an agreement to enable extraordinary UoPeople students from around the world to transfer and complete their bachelor's degree on campus at McGill. This represents the first agreement between the American university and a Canadian institution. » MORE

Roswell, GA (USA), April 2021 - Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, social emotional learning (SEL) has been vital to supporting students' wellbeing and fostering their success in school. In a new white paper, 7 Mindsets reveals how K-12 districts can help teachers create an even greater impact on the social emotional wellness of their students and school culture by addressing their own social emotional health first. The paper, "Investing in Educators' Social Emotional Wellness Fosters Student Success and Improves School Culture," is available for free to educators at the website. » MORE

Dresden (GER), April 2021 - The roads of Sri Lanka and high-quality university education of transport and traffic experts and geodesists in the Asian country are the focus of a current Erasmus+ project with the participation of TU Dresden (TUD) entitled "LBS2ITS - Location-based Services to Intelligent Transport Systems". The three-day online kick-off event took place recently, with around thirty participants. Prof. Regine Gerike and her team took part on behalf of the TUD. She is scientifically supervising the project through her Chair of Integrated Transport Planning and Traffic Engineering at the "Friedrich List" Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences. » MORE

Saratoga Springs, NY (USA), April 2021 - Elliott Masie and Telly Leung, in partnership with the Learning COLLABORATIVE, published an eBook in March 2021 as a real-time collection of perspectives, frustrations, aspirations, and predictions about empathy from learning and business colleagues. » MORE

Nottingham (UK), April 2021 - The next-gen learning experience platform provider, THRIVE, has appointed David Verhaag as US Head of Implementation & Customer Success to support demand from enterprise prospects in the United States. David joins THRIVE with 15+ years of experience, having previously been Chief Customer Officer at Degreed and led fast-growing success teams at HireVue and SuccessFactors. » MORE

London (UK), April 2021 - Training Industry has announced its selections for the 2021 Top Training Companies™ lists for the sales training and enablement sector of the learning and development (L&D) market. Imparta was selected in the prestigious list for the eleventh year in a row. » MORE

Budapest (HU), April 2021 - Submissions for the EDEN Virtual Annual Conference, hosted by the National Distance Education University UNED on 21-24 June, are welcome till 15 May. » MORE

New York, NY (USA), April 2021 - Submissions for the 2021 International E-Learning Awards - Academic Division, presented by the International E-Learning Association (IELA), are now open! The Entry Submission Page is posted on the IELA site, and the deadline for submission is 15 June 2021. » MORE