Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Hilary Clinton on Higher Education

...Clinton also said that a problem she sees in much of the world is that countries have an elementary and secondary system, and a research university, but "no levels in between ... nothing like technical schools or community colleges." She said that building these kinds of models may be one of the most important contributions American higher education can offer...

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/03/25/hillary-clinton-outlines-goals-higher-education-globally-and-us

Thursday, March 20, 2014

Role and operations of the Troika with regard to the euro area programme countries

Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs - PE526.111
European Parliament resolution of 13 March 2014 on the enquiry on the role and operations of the Troika (ECB, Commission and IMF) with regard to the euro area programme countries (2013/2277(INI)) - P7_TA-PROV(2014)0239

Source: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+TA+20140313+TOC+DOC+XML+V0//EN


The European Parliament,
  • having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular Article 7, Article 136 in combination with Article 121 , and Article 174 thereof,
  • having regard to the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union,
  • having regard to the Treaty on European Union and in particular Article 3 thereof,