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This paper investigates the correlation between the number of students from agricultural field and the number of farms in agriculture from Romania. According to the nomenclature of the university specializations, the educational system of the agricultural field is presented in the “Vegetable and animal resources engineering branch”. According to the Government decisions number 140/2017 and 615/ 2017, in the university year 2017 – 2018, in Romania were 22 universities (state and private) that offered a 165 bachelors programs, with a total number 12.420 places. The biggest number of places is offered by the University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Bucharest, with a total number of 2640 places, representing 21% from the total offer. It is noticed that most students who have opted for an agricultural study program have as residence the countryside and it is feasible to assume that they will reintegrate to another level in agricultural activity. This was the argument that justified us to determine the correlation between the number of student enrolled in the agricultural field and the number of farms in agriculture. From a dynamic point of view, there is a decrease in the number of students as well as the oscillation of the number of agricultural farms but also decreasing. The process of decreasing the number of agricultural farms is mainly supported by the sale.The analysis of the data shows that on an increase with a student in the agricultural field it mitigates the decrease of the number of agricultural farms on average by 12. As well, in the paper it is presented a comparison between Romania and Poland regarding the number of agricultural farms and age of the farmers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To examine the challenges encountered by Eastern European students within a sixth form college in the United Kingdom. This paper aims to consider the difficulties encountered by this particular ethnic group examining the impact the challenges may have on their performance, success and achievement. This paper will also highlight equality and diversity implications and examine the social mobility of this particular group. [For the complete Volume 13, Number 1 proceedings, see ED568595.]

The lack of openness for entrepreneurship in Romania is known. The share of micro-enterprises in Romania in the total number of SMEs is 88%, lower than the average of 92% of the European Union. In this context, very few young people start a business on their own. In Romania, 1 in 100 young people start a business on their own, compared to 1 in 4 young people in the Czech Republic, Poland or Hungary. Thus, only 11% of Romanian companies are owned by young people up to 29 years of age. A common problem is that students or graduates from the technical profiles in universities in Romania choose to enter the business world, to a great extent, in trade or services to the detriment of the material goods creation. The paper aims, on the basis of a broader study involving students from three faculties at the Polytechnic University of Bucharest, to know how students choose their business ideas, their perception of the need to innovate and how the innovation of a product is an option for them. The innovation of a product, where engineers are supposed to play an important role, is the rarest form of innovation and more difficult to approach through a broader and various knowledge that is needed it. The purpose of the research is to understand how the creation and use of an e-learning platform oriented to product innovation at the Polytechnic University of Bucharest would fill and complete the lack of information due to the differences between the curricula corresponding to the chosen specializations. The e-learning platform will provide information available 24 hours / 7 days, the study will be easier, student collaboration will be easier and can help create spin-offs and get financial support and advice for those student entrepreneurs which demonstrate maturity and have results in approaching the product development process within their own businesses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The notion that investment in human capital is associated with better economic outcomes was coined in the U.S. and is assumed to translate equally across nations regardless of countries' socio-economic and political situation. The purpose of this study is to examine whether human capital tenets hold in European countries that transitioned from socialist regimes to a market-based economy. The modeling approach relied on 18 years (1994 to 2012) of country level data collected from the World Bank, in order to explore whether the increase in labor force with tertiary education (i.e., human capital) was associated with better economic outcomes in posttransition European countries, measured by GDP per capita. The comparison group was configured by European countries that did not experience the aforementioned transition during the same time period. Findings from the panel data estimations with country fixed effects consistently indicated that increases in the proportion of labor force with post-secondary education were not associated with better economic outcomes for post-transition countries, and that the opposite was true for non post-transition countries. Given that these findings problematize the applicability of the human capital theory in this region, the political economy theory of rent-seeking is utilized to help us further explore this issue.

Our proposal describes ISPY, a multilateral European K2 language project based on the development of an Online Networking Platform for Language Learning (http://www.ispy-project.com/). Supported by the Lifelong Learning European Programme, the platform aims to help young adults across Europe, secondary and vocational school programs, learn a new language and gain insights into the cultural knowledge implicit to those languages. Conducted by the University of Wolverhampton in collaboration with five other countries in Europe (Spain, Poland, Netherlands, Germany and Romania), the project will promote interaction between learners from different countries who will partly work together to learn a new language via a set of spy missions promoting problem-solving challenges, deductive tasks and collaboration through extension activities in the Moodle platform. The ISPY platform can be used to support face to face in class teaching or outside instruction to enhance language acquisition. It is designed in short scenes in flash movies and comprises a set of ten espionage missions. Available in each of the target languages, all of these multimedia pills consist of a range of activities including photo stories, video presentations, Webquests, quizzes, listening and extended tasks that call for collaboration through a moderated forum. Each country will also have the option to add extra activities in a Moodle application created purposely for the project, additional tasks which, in essence, are new spy missions for those who have already been awarded as "Qualified" spies. [For the complete volume, see ED574893.]

For the first time, the annual conference of the European Association for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (EUROCALL) took place in Sweden. The conference took place at the Faculty of Education on historic ground on the old fortification walls of Carolus Dux from the 17th century right in the centre of the city. This year's host comprised the University of Gothenburg in collaboration with Chalmers University of Technology. The local committee members represented three collaborating institutions: "Faculty of Education, the University of Gothenburg"; "Department of Languages and Literatures, the University of Gothenburg"; and "Division for Language and Communication, Chalmers University of Technology." This year's conference theme was "CALL: using, learning, knowing." The conference seeked to establish the current state of the art, how using technologies shape what and how we learn, and what we consider we know from research and development within CALL. These three dimensions are in a continuous fux and interplay as an upward spiral, contributing together to create a dynamic learning experience for the student. There were presentations presented at the conference. 59 of these were submitted as extended papers and appear in this volume of proceedings. An author index is included. (Individual papers contain references.)

In the academic environment the reputation is linked to research performance. However, the questions "what reputation actually is, how it is formed and which are the best ways to measure it?" still remain and they raise tension and confusion between academics. The evaluation methods tend to over emphasise research and fail to address the quality of teaching, mostly because measuring teaching quality is complex and difficult. Teaching matters in higher education institutions (HEIs) and the quality management system must be committed to capturing all the dimensions that affect quality teaching. [For complete volume, see ED567040.]

An air-mass modification, on its way from Poland to Romania, observed between 19-21 July 2014 is discussed. The air-mass was investigated using data of two multi-wavelength lidars capable of performing regular elastic, depolarization and Raman measurements in Warsaw, Poland, and in Magurele, Romania. The analysis was focused on evaluating optical properties of aerosol in order to search for similarities and differences in the vertical profiles describing the atmospheric layers above the two stations within given period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

By making a comparison between historic acquisition of the F-16 by two European countries, Poland and Romania, we can affirm that in both states, the procurement process was a lengthy one, not easy, sometimes controversial, but gave them a certainly status within NATO as well as the security guarantee. By the time of the actual purchase of F-16, people who supported the purchase, always bring into discussion the need that Air Forces should be equipped with such an airplane due to its capabilities and performances. However, indirectly, the purchase of F-16 was dominated by the political factor and guarantees to the states holder the national security in front of Russia regional dominance or in front of other elements that could provide a regional insecurity state. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This collection of 24 articles explores how educational research, programs and policies in several countries are related to the issue of children's rights. Several of the collected articles focus on aspects of children's experience and development. Group membership, children's right to happiness, the development of an optimistic outlook among children, students' responsibilities, growing up at school, socialization, personality development, psychological effects of educational programs on immigrant children, the position of the teacher discussing controversial issues, the orientation of children toward work, child abuse and neglect, the human rights of the juvenile delinquent, and individual differences of children are among the topics discussed. Some of the articles explore social conditions and describe institutional practices. The relationship of class differences and equality of opportunity, educational practices and the rights of infants, education in the German Democratic Republic, sexual differentiation in educational programs, and problems of sanitation, education and society are among the topics discussed. Additionally, several articles examine the nature and methods of educational research and suggest future directions for such research. (Author/RH)