VST department (Science and Technology Watch department) offers the English release of its monthly publication, "Dossier d'actualité" (summary of the research currently being carried out in a area).

n°46: Quality Indicators and Educational Research publications: which publications count?
n°42: In the footsteps of the world education market
n°39: Assessment: a central issue for learning
n°38 : Teaching evolution in France
n°34 : From the transmission of knowledge to a competence-based approach
n°31 : Reading methods and learning difficulties
n°30 - Education of the Roma in Europe
n°29 - University “small worlds” in Globalisation
n°28 - Leaving school without diplomas, and educational inadequacy
n°27- Teaching “controversial issues”: a living, vital link between school and society?
n°26 - Aims, competences and professional identity
n°25 - Career and educational guidance policies
n°24 - Leadership and educational change
n°23 - After-school tutoring, between popular education and a service industry
n°22 - Parents and schools
n°21 - The Digital Workspace in the school environment
n°20 - Basic skills and the psychology of education
n°19 - “Swiched-on” teenagers
n°18 - What is “good” research in education?
n°17 - Information literacy
n°16 - Intermediary regulation processes and steering
n°15 - Evaluating arts and cultural education in schools
n° 14 - School segregation and elites education
n°13 - Teacher Education
n°12 - Arts, culture and school
n°11 - School education under the age of 6 .

Next NESSE Seminar

"Strategies to combat school failure and early school leaving : lessons from research for policy makers"
with Christoph Meng (University Maastricht) and Andreas Walther (IRIS)."
Brussels, 21 October 2009.

The official launching of the VISA database will take place on May, 14th and 15th. The VISA project aims to offer a video recordings database showing teaching & training situations and their related documents to the scientific community. The aim is to help the educational research community to develop new practices based on the database. The development and sharing of methodologies is the heart of VISA activities.