Good news from CHN University from Holland! Since 2006 Bachelor and Master programmes will start both in September and in February. To be able to run the programme, there should be a minimum of 10 students per programme.

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• England: Parents learn to get involved in study life

A recent US and British study finds that students do better in school when parents take an active interest in their children's schoolwork.As the nation's school children prepare to head back to class, their parents may also have to start brushing up on their maths, grammar, geography, English. That's because the Danish school system is poised to integrate new knowledge taken from research indicating that parental input is essential in improving a child's performance in school.

Reading aloud out of books is fine, but computer-learning games, educational websites and days out to places like museums and the Planetarium are also integral to helping children better their grades. The question remains, however: does parental input actually help the children learn more? The answer seems to be yes, according to The Danish Union of Teachers, the National Association of School Parents and the National Association of Municipalities. Read more: Eurogates.Forum  
 

• Go Dutch - save a fortune in study fees

Universities in Holland offer first-class postgraduate degrees at a budget price, says Simon Northwood. If markets have any place in higher education, and if British postgraduate students are half as bright as they're cracked up to be, there will soon be an exodus to the Continent. This is the logical consequence of the rapid growth in demand for postgraduate qualifications and of our exceptionally high fees compared with those elsewhere in Europe. 

Dutch universities are the first in continental Europe to offer a full range of postgraduate courses taught and assessed in English. Low fees do not mean poor quality or limited choice. There are new universities at Maastricht and Rotterdam, early 20th-century red bricks at Nijmegen and Tilburg and fine 16th- and 17th-century foundations at Groningen, Utrecht, Amsterdam, and Leiden. The latter three are members of the elite League of European Research Universities, reflecting the strength of Dutch education. (Only the UK has a larger contingent: Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, UCL.) Read more: Eurogates.Forum

•   England: Sharp increase in working students

The number of university students forced to seek a job in order to live and reduce debts has risen dramatically, according to a joint report by the Trades Union Congress and the National Union of Students. According to the study 630,000 students took a job in the current year to support themselves.

This was 54 per cent more than in 1996. Some 55 per cent of young people from managerial and professional backgrounds had taken jobs compared with 61 per cent of students from families with a history of manual working. Students worked an average of 14 hours a week, although one in five was putting in a 20-hour week, the report said. Source: TheTimes Higher Education Supplement

• Denmark: more English-speaking workplaces

English-speaking jobs in Denmark are becoming more and more common. This is especially true with regard to large and international companies who have made or will make English their corporate language. Within recent years, Danish companies such as Carlsberg, Danisco, Danfoss, Lundbeck, Novo and Nordea have adopted English as their corporate language.  Read more: Eurogates.Forum

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