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Bucharest (RO), March 2009 - (by Elena Lita) Bucharest's University Politehnica (UPB), Romania's largest technical university, has awarded its highest honor to Intel Corporation chairman, Craig Barrett. The honorary Ph.D. was granted during a special ceremony held at the university to recognize Barrett's intellectual merits. The recipient made a speech on education to Romanian university students, telling them that education and technology are key to creating an innovation economy. » MORE

Heerlen (NL), March 2009 - E-xcellence is a web-based instrument focusing on eLearning in higher education. It is the main product of a two-year project, undertaken under the auspices of EADTU (The European Association of Distance Teaching Universities) and involving a pool of experts from twelve European institutions with a stake in eLearning developments. Quality Assurance in Higher Education (HE) has received a great deal of attention at the institutional, national, and European levels through validation centres, universities (and their umbrella organisations), quality agencies, national Ministries of Education, and the like. » MORE

Vancouver, British Columbia (CA), January 2009 - Murray Goldberg, founder of WebCT, has announced the beta launch of Brainify.com - an academic community for university and college students and their instructors centred on academic social bookmarking. In addition to bookmarking, Brainify includes the ability to create groups of common academic interest, to pose academic questions to the student community, and to follow the collections, comments, and questions of other respected community members closely. » MORE

Milton Keynes (UK), January 2009 - The British Council fears the economic downturn may deter international students from coming to the UK to study, but it's not bad news for all. The Open University Business School is defying the trend through offering relevant and responsive business and management education to around 43,000 students in nearly seventy countries. » MORE