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Religulous

Bill Maher’s brilliant new film Religulous is coming soon. Will it be the God Delusion of documentary films?
It look promising, looking at the trailers. Visit disbeliefnet as well.

Welcome to our new TUT overlords

It was made public today that International University Audentes is to merge with Tallinn University of Technology, if everything goes according to the plan, then by the end of this academic year. Although I do not really know what will happen, I am cautiously optimistic as having a backing of a larger educational institution allows [...]

The draft of the new laws on higher education

If anyone is interested, then here is the new draft on the quality reform (in Estonian). Pretty interesting.

Some thoughts about the Estonian Higher Education Quality Reform

It was announced yesterday that there are going to be changes in the accreditation of Estonian higher education institutions, mainly that institutional accreditation is going to be introduced. This means that any university which passes this will be operate with constant fear of losing some of its programmes and can focus on continuous institution-building, rather [...]

Human Rights Week at International University Audentes

The Human Rights Centre at International University Audentes is having a Human Rights Week. More info from www.humanrights.ee.

Lifelong and lifewide education

I work in education. One of the more interesting concepts being touted at the moment is the idea of lifelong (and lifewide) education. I like those ideas quite a lot. Essentially they mean that education is no longer divided among age lines, but also that education is no longer confined to educational institutions or formal [...]