Žebříčky, žebříčky a zase žebříčky

Dobrý den,

žebříčků je celá řada, není to hlavní vodítko při výběru univerzity, ale může to posloužit k lepší orientaci při sestavování TOP 5 listu.

Nedávno vyšel další žebříček dle Nature Indexu, zaměřený především na přírodní vědy, dle jejich "vědeckých výkonů".

Link: http://www.natureindex.com/annual-tables/2016

'Top universities to offer full degrees online in five years'

Leading universities will offer fully accredited undergraduate courses online within five years, says the co-founder of a US online university network.

Daphne Koller, president of Coursera, said the necessary technology was available but universities had been hesitant about their "reputation".

So far, online courses have mostly offered certificates for short courses rather than full degrees.

Prof Koller says online degrees can be "more affordable and accessible".

Founded in California four years ago, Coursera has become one of the world's biggest providers of "massive, open, online courses" - known as Moocs.

The online platform has 20 million students following courses from about 145 prestigious universities and institutions around the world.

But most of the online courses have been short units that give students a certificate, rather than a full degree or credits towards a degree.

Prof Koller, speaking at an educational technology conference in London, said the next stage for online learning would be leading universities offering mainstream undergraduate courses online, with invigilated exams and full degrees.

Image captionDaphne Koller says that the technological barriers to online university degrees have been overcome

"I'm absolutely convinced that will happen - and it will be a lot earlier than 10 years. The societal need is there.

"A full-blown undergraduate degree - I'd be surprised if that didn't happen within five years.

"Will it be fully online? Or will it have some residential components? That remains to be seen."

Prof Koller said the technology had kept improving, but universities had been held back by the "protection of the brand" and not wanting to be seen to move away from personal tuition.

"It's the perception we need to break, it's not the technology that's been the barrier," she said.

In terms of supervising exams for distance learners, she said that webcams are "surprisingly hard to beat".

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Image captionIndia's ambitions for millions more graduates each year will require online university courses

Prof Koller said concerns about impersonal online learning were often built on an unrealistic image of traditional campus-based teaching - and that most students are not "walking on lawns next to ivy-clad buildings".

"It's a false comparison to think it's either anonymous online teaching or else a cosy armchair and individual tutors.

"When you have a lecture hall with 300 people, you're not getting personal interaction."

Online learning should not be compared "with some utopian ideal of 10 people sitting around in a seminar room engaging deeply with an instructor". 

Prof Koller says that online learning is going to become the route for students who want to improve their qualifications but who cannot afford the time or money to study for a campus-based degree.

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Image captionFuturelearn's online courses will count as credits towards a University of Leeds degree

"Many working adults have obligations, they have a job, a family, a mortgage, they can't go back to school."

In countries such as India, with ambitious targets to expand higher education, Prof Koller says the authorities will have to use online universities, because there is insufficient capacity in bricks-and-mortar institutions.

There are also efforts to use online learning to teach refugees, such as those displaced by Syria's civil war.

Coursera has announced a partnership with the US State Department to help refugees to access online courses to improve their job chances, such as English language lessons or computer coding.

It would remove any costs from studying, such as fees for certificates showing the completion of courses.

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Coursera was founded four years ago, part of a wave of online university projects that were claimed to be about to revolutionise higher education, making it cheaper and more accessible to students around the world.

Many millions signed up for free short courses - but Prof Koller is predicting another stage with online learning being incorporated into formal fee-charging degree courses from mainstream universities.

There are already many online degrees offered - but Prof Koller says that in the past, such distance learning was seen as something "respectable universities do not engage in".

There are signs that this change is already beginning to happen.

The UK's online university platform, Futurelearn, has announced a project with the University of Leeds, in which course units studied online will count as credits towards an undergraduate degree.

Students from this autumn will be able to take course units online and cut the cost of tuition fees for a geography degree.

Peter Horrocks, chairman of Futurelearn, described this as a "breakthrough moment".

Futurelearn has been created by the Open University, a longstanding provider of degrees by distance learning.

But the big change will be if leading, campus-based universities begin to compete for mainstream, undergraduate courses online.

Image captionWill universities shift towards offering more courses online?

Another major US online university network, edX, is launching a project this autumn allowing online course units to be used as building blocks towards a full degree.

EdX is offering a range of online courses from Arizona State University - and if a student passes eight of these, costing $200 (£150) each, it counts as the equivalent of a first year at university.

Coursera has launched two online postgraduate courses with the University of Illinois, at a much lower price than their conventional counterparts.

Prof Koller says the past four years has seen a rapid rise in the numbers of students wanting to study online, but a slower reaction from universities in offering fully fledged online courses.

"We thought that the change in academic institutions would be more rapid," she said. "Universities are not the most nimble of organisations."

That change could now be approaching, she says, with universities working out their strategies for a potentially huge market.

The hype around Moocs might have faded, but the big impact could be about to begin.

Zkušenosti se zahraničním studiem IES

Dobrý den,

IES má velmi dobré výsledky a část studentů odchází do zahraničí na krátkodobé pobyty nebo další studium. V článku naleznete zkušenosti se zahraničním studiem několika studentů.

STUDIUM V ZAHRANIČÍ

Studium na IES FSV UK otevírá dveře na nejlepší zahraniční univerzity. Studenti, kteří se po absolvování bakalářského programu rozhodnou dále pokračovat v zahraničí, jsou dobře připraveni odborně i jazykově a jejich úspěšnost v přijímacích řízeních je mimořádně vysoká. Jak uvádí Ondřej Kokeš, absolvent University of Cambridge: "Za posledních pět let IES pokaždé vyslal jednoho až dva studenty na Cambridge, takže to rozhodně jde. Loni jsme se hlásili tři, dva nás vzali, ten třetí se dostal na Oxford."

V roce 2015 byli absolventi IES FSV UK přijati a nastoupili na následující renomované univerzity:

Columbia University	University of Zurich
Princeton University	Tilburg University
University of Oxford	ETH Zurich
University of Cambridge	Stockholm School of Economics
London School of Economics and Political Science	University of Warwick
Peking University, HSBC Business School	University of Bonn
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne	University of Lugano
Duisenberg School of Finance	University of St. Gallen
University of Amsterdam	Utrecht University
University of Bologna	Universität Basel
De Montford University, Leicester	Hult International Business School

Níže si můžete přečíst zkušenosti studentů z jejich pobytů na zahraničních univerzitách:

• University of Cambridge (Jakub Čížek)
• Columbia University (Marek Šabata)
• University of Cambridge (Ondřej Kokeš)
• Stockholm School of Economics (Tibor Keše)
• Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Bruno Baránek)
• Universität Basel (Michal Polena)

STIPENDIUM PRO STUDIUM NA ZAHRANIČNÍCH UNIVERZITÁCH LZE ZÍSKAT I DÍKY NÁSLEDUJÍCÍM PROGRAMŮM:

Stipendijní program nadace Zdeňka Bakaly

Stipendijní program pro talentované středoškolské a vysokoškolské studenty, kteří chtějí pokračovat ve svém studiu v zahraničí, na britských nebo amerických školách. Otevření nového kola probíhá obvykle v lednu, uzávěrka přihlášek v květnu. Podrobnosti naleznete zde.

Stipendium od Nadačního fondu Martiny a Tomáše Krskových

Nadační fond Martiny a Tomáše Krskových poskytuje českým studentům stipendia na postgraduální (magisterské) studium na deseti nejlepších světových univerzitách na 1 rok. Maximální věk žadatele je 25 let. Informaci, kdy fond přijímá přihlášky, naleznete na  jejich webových stránkách.

Stipendia Kellner Family Foundation

Poskytuje stipendia na studium na domácích i zahraničních univerzitách. Žádosti o stipendium se podávají každý rok do konce května. Podrobnosti zde.

Fullbrightova stipendia

Stipendia financovaná českou a americkou vládou umožňují českým občanům studovat, provádět výzkum nebo vyučovat v USA. O stipendium se lze ucházet přímo u Fullbrightovy komise. Podmínkou vycestování je následný dvouletý pobyt v domovské zemi. Výběrové řízení probíhá jednou ročně většinou na podzim, uzávěrky pro jednotlivé programy se liší, naleznete je na webových stránkách.

DOD na pražské architektuře - přeposlání

Vážení studenti

dovolte mi, abych Vás jménem Fakulty architektury ČVUT v Praze pozvala na Den otevřených dveří na FA ČVUT, který se bude konat v sobotu 11. června 2016 od 14 do 18 hodin.

Zájemci o studium budou seznámeni s formami studia, se studijními programy a podmínkami přijetí ke studiu. Připraveny jsou pro ně workshopy, výtvarné dílny, prohlídka budovy, informace o studiu a diskuze se studenty.

Otevřené budou všechny ateliéry, kde si Vaši studenti budou moci prohlédnout semestrální práce i prostředí, kde budoucí architekti a designéři pracují.

Od 19 hodin bude pokračovat večerní program Pražské muzejní noci na FA ČVUT a slavnostní dernisáž výstavy ateliérových prací Fabrika letní 2016.
Večerní program bude bohatý: hudební jam session, interaktivní instalace nebo grilování na nádvoří.

Předem děkuji za distribuci přiloženého plakátu a programu, případně sdílení události na Facebooku https://www.facebook.com/events/615155638660453/

Děkuji, že mé výzvě věnujete pozornost, budu se těšit na účast Vašich žáků.

Srdečně,
za FA ČVUT
Kateřina Rottová
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Application statistics 2016 - Cambridge University

What are my chances of getting in?

This is one of the most frequently asked questions about applying to Cambridge. On average across all subjects, we typically receive five applications per place, but naturally there is some variation between courses. 

The University and Colleges are committed to offering admission to students of the highest academic ability and potential. Our admissions process involves a strong element of cross-College moderation – Directors of Studies in each subject meet during the admissions period to discuss the overall standard of applications so they can see how their own College’s applicants compare, and through our pool system we can ensure, as far as possible, that applicants in a given year are neither advantaged nor disadvantaged by the level of applications to their chosen/allocated College. 

Despite application numbers varying considerably each year, our system means that success rates are very similar from College to College. This is because the pool results in many students (853 in the case of the 2016 cycle, about 20 per cent of all offers made) receiving an offer from a College other than the one they applied to, or were allocated to through the open application system. 

NB: 'admissions cycle' refers to the UCAS Apply cycle in which applications are considered, eg '2016 cycle' refers to applications made from September 2015 onwards for admission to courses starting in October 2016 or by deferred entry for courses starting in 2017. Please note the source data for these graphs was last refreshed on 09 May 2016.

Interactive graph generator

Use our interactive graph generator below to view basic undergraduate application and admissions statistics using criteria that you define. Simply select from the options in the form below and click 'Show graph'.

Odkaz ke získání statistik a grafů:

http://www.undergraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/apply/statistics

U.S.News - Best Global Universities Rankings 2016

Dobrý den,

na linku níže najdete nový žebříček nejlepších škol na světě podle U.S.News.

Letos má PORG úspěchy v na prvních 40 univerzitách na následujících pozicích:

5. - Oxford (2x)
18. - Imperial College
20. - Duke U
22. - UCL (4x)
27. - U of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
34. - Ohio State U
37. - U of Edinburgh (3x)

a další...




http://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/rankings

Informační přednáška k programu Scholarship 2016

Chcete se dozvědět o podmínkách získání finanční podpory pro studia v zahraničí prostřednictvím programu Scholarship poskytovaného Bakala Foundation? Zajímají vás počty a profily úspěšných žadatelů z minulých let? Máte dotazy k online přihlášce a způsobu jejího vyplňování? Bakala Foundation Student Hub si vás dovoluje pozvat na informativní setkání k programu Scholarship 2016, kde budete mít příležitost probrat nejen tyto, ale všechny další zásadní otázky s Kristýnou Borsodi, manažerkou programu Scholarship. 

Těšíme se na vaši návštěvu!  

WHEN

Monday, May 16, 2016 from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM (CEST) - Add to Calendar

WHERE

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