The article is devoted to a topic that is very important for the post-Soviet countries nowadays, and which is related both to the development of intellectual human capital and to the need to transform higher education. The article, based on the research of current trends, examines the competencies needed...

The objective of this research is to evaluate the technical efficiency of Cameroon’s 8 public universities (i.e., their ability to use a minimum of resources to produce a maximum of results). The data used come from the National Institute of Statistics (INS) and cover the period from 2013 to 2018. Based...

Public higher education reflects the image of a country’s development. The quality of courses and training directly influences access to an increasingly global labour market and the promotion of locally profitable scientific research. In an administrative and technical framework, the Pedagogical Innovation...

Capacity-building is defined as the process of developing and strengthening the skills, instincts, abilities, processes, and resources that organizations and communities need to survive, adapt, and thrive in a fast-changing world. An essential ingredient in capacity-building is the transformation that...

Education has long been regarded as an important determinant of the growth of labour productivity particularly for its nature as a major instrument for human capital investment. Many theoretical and empirical studies from the literature on development economics as well as on education influenced by the...

This article is part of Pedagogical Innovation Centers (PIC) pre-operationalization within Moroccan universities. Designed to be structured to support pedagogical development and innovation, the PIC aims to enhance, enrich and diversify the pedagogical practices of teacher-researchers individually or...

Learning Management System (LMS) is the engine of knowledge at universities. LMSs acquire, save, share, distribute content among different players at universities. Due to COVID-19 pandemic LMS has become more important not only for content management, but also as an integration tool with video-conference...

Quality assurance in higher education continues to be a serious challenge even the significant efforts that have been done to this end. Major strides have been made by Moroccan universities in this field especially since instituting the national agency for evaluation and quality assurance in higher education...

How can we make digital education more inclusive? Based on interviews with teachers and underserved students about their experiences with online teaching during the COVID pandemic, we advance the knowledge about equity and digital education. We identify specific opportunities and challenges to inclusion...

Internationalization and student mobility are topical issues in higher education. Universities continue to invest in increasing inbound student mobility and how to produce globally competent graduates. However, only a small percentage of higher education students benefit from mobility. Further, the COVID-19...

Using an online questionnaire, we examined the self-reported benefits and satisfaction with Erasmus + mobility of intermediate and higher technical students who participated in internships abroad under the Erasmus + programme. During the academic year 2021–2022, the Sancti Petri Secondary School (San...

The article aims at analyzing the latest development of the Erasmus+ Programme in the South-West University “Neofit Rilski” – Blagoevgrad as a part of a wider internationalization strategy. This activity, especially mobility under Key Action 103 and Key Action 107, is inextricably linked to the current...

This paper is aimed at identifying and disseminating six project-based learning international good practices, developed by the Escola d’Art i Superior de Disseny de les Illes Balears (Spain) and the Tibilisi State Academy of Arts (Georgia), in the framework of an Erasmus+ KA107 project. Based on Erasmus+ staff...

This article presents some technical and pedagogical considerations about a series of videos made by the authors to teach elementary theory of differential equations. Intended to be a pedagogical support for undergraduate students of scientific curricula, these videos provide rigorous mathematical contents...

To remain operational during the COVID-19 pandemic, educational institutions had to rapidly migrate to online learning, affecting 1.6 billion students worldwide. This unexpected scenario required extra effort for teachers and students, but it also provided an opportunity to encourage students to develop...

The climate change that modern society is continuously coping with convey the issues of biodiversity preservation and the long-term health of natural ecosystems. The European Commission has co-funded the NATURE project under the Erasmus Plus programme for Higher Education. The general target of the project...

In order to ensure a better integration of Moroccan students at the university, the incorporation of a language module in higher education institutions (HEIs) has been a necessity (CSEFRS, 2018: 44). Since 2004, several modifications have been made to the “Langue et Terminologie” (LT) module which has...

Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education is critical to student’s future success. It relies heavily on laboratory experiments, which are effective teaching tools to promote greater understanding among students. Many researchers have long urged educators to re-examine technology...

Since the beginning of the pandemic, the educational process in many educational institutions has changed. The work organisation has changed considerably, with online lectures and classes coming in daily. Many more technologies and solutions are involved in preparing the subject and the study process....

This paper attempts to assess the impact of integrating Open Educational Resources (OERs) on the learning outcomes of the finance course taught to students of a Moroccan engineering school. For that purpose, an event methodology is used to compare students’ learning outcomes before the use of OERs (i.e.,...

The emerging complex problems of the 21st century regarding sustainability issues in the ICT sector represent a considerable common challenge for today’s youth. Along with other similar initiatives worldwide, within the framework of The European Commission – Capacity Building for Higher Education action,...

Like most countries, COVID19 pandemic lockdown forced Morocco to resort to distance learning to ensure the continuity of instruction. Being a novel experience in Morocco, it posed a wide range of difficulties and faced various criticisms. This was mainly attributed to lack of infrastructure, high internet...

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a major impact on all areas, hence the need to think about a mandatory change on almost all levels including educational practices. In order to limit the spread of the virus, distance education was adopted, but faced several challenges. This experience has shown that although...

Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) occupies an ambiguous position in Europe. While many CEE countries had long joined the European Union, yet they are unceasingly perceived as lagging behind in terms of their democratic culture and liberal principles. In a sense, CEE has been in a permanent state of transition...

The socio-economic world aims to sustain its activities in the face of ecological transitions, but the dangers caused by certain shortcomings with regard to the planet in relation to environmental issues are very critical. Therefore, to achieve sustainability and face environmental challenges, it is...

In this new civilization marked by uncertainty and competition, transformation has become a new rule. It provides new solutions which integrate digital technology and change the way things are done. It is in this context that we propose a project of transformation, or even innovation, in the academic...

The Pandemic COVID-19 has brought us changes in learning techniques, including teaching anatomy. A different method of learning provides a special experience for both students and lecturers. The study design used was a qualitative phenomenological study. Place and duration of study from August 2021 to...

The content of the copyright and related rights courses in the curricula of musical studies in North Macedonia is analyzed, for the purpose of determination of the presence of key contents relevant for the career of future graduates such as: valuation of copyright and related rights, collective management...

Developing writing skills may be challenging for the majority of students while learning English. They easily get bored of typical writing structures and often neglect such tasks. To engage students in the writing process and boost their interest, teachers always try to search for new modern teaching...

To help instructors gain a better understanding of how students viewed and experienced their course, the novel use of a scenario-enhanced focus group was utilized at the end of a university course. This case study sought to identify an additional mechanism to use to directly obtain students’ feedback...

Internationalization is considered to be a major axis of development for universities on several scales, including the support of innovation and entrepreneurship of the youth bearing ideas in different fields of specialization. Therefore, the purpose of our paper is to highlight the effect of the universities...

Improving entrepreneurship has become a multi-level social and economic imperative, since it is an effective approach to inspire individuals to develop social and economic added value that benefits society as a whole. Entrepreneurial education has become the age’s means of changing the culture of individuals...

Literature highlights a lack of Higher Education curricula that promotes graduates’ soft skills. Critical Thinking (CT) is considered one of the soft skills associated with higher employment levels. The European-funded project “Critical Thinking for Successful Jobs” (Think4Jobs), currently in progress,...