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Neste artigo é sinteticamente apresentada a evolução ocorrida no âmbito do ensino em Informação e Documentação em Portugal, correlacionando-a com o contexto internacional.Esta abordagem inicial permite-nos perceber a mudança de paradigma ocorrida e as relevantes e complexas alterações provocadas pelo impacto das trasnformações económicas, sociais, culturais e tecnológicas que caracterizam a Era da Informação, assim como a emergência de uma nova área científica - a Ciência da Informação -. Ambas contribuíram para o aparecimento de novas perspectivas de serviços de informação, de novos profissionais de informação e, sem dúvida, de novos modelos de formação.É ainda considerado o posicionamento no contexto Europeu e a implementação do Espaço Europeu do Ensino Superior, cuja criação visa a aproximação dos países da União Europeia, no âmbito da formação, incluindo a área específica da formação em Informação e Documentação. ; This article starts by a brief overview of the evolutive process in the field of education in Library and Information Science (LIS) in Portugal and its connection with international contexts.This approach allows to understand the paradigm shift and the crucial and complex changes caused by the impact of social, economic, cultural and technological conditionsof the information era as well as the emergence of a new scientific area - Information Science (IS). Both contributed to the arising of new perspectives in information services, new information professionals and,undoubtedly, new education models.Considering the positioning in the European space, will also be considered the implementation of the European HigherEducation Area, whose creation endeavoured an educational approach across the European Union countries, including LIS field.

This note investigates the effects of the education level, product market rigidities and employment protection legislation on growth. It exploits macro-panel data for OECD countries. For countries close to the technological frontier, education and rigidities are significantly related to TFP growth. The contribution of the interaction between product market regulation and labour market rigidity seems particularly substantial. -- Productivity ; growth ; regulations ; market rigidities ; education

Introduction and general framework -- Introduction -- University assessment as governance device -- Teaching and students' careers in Italy -- Do family economic conditions influence play a role in university dropout? New evidence from administrative data -- Drop-out decisions in a cohort of Italian university students -- Recruiting and academic careers -- From PhD to Assistant Professor: analysis of recent cohorts -- Academic Careers and Fertility Decisions -- Conformism in research -- Social Network tools for the evaluation of individual and group scientific performance -- Topic-Driven Detection and Analysis of Scholarly Data. The Maverick Project -- Research quality and impact on teaching -- The relationship between teaching and research: the role of the institutional context and environmental factors -- Degree-level determinants of university student performance -- Teaching Efficiency of the Italian Universities: a Conditional Frontier Analysis.

Hardly a day goes by without some reference to the potential impact of artificial intelligence in our lives. I believe that universities both in the United States and around the world will also experience significant change brought about through AI.

This article explores how active citizenship can be encouraged through education and community action. It proposes that service learning and a renewed focus on voluntarism can both promote social cohesion between different ethnic and cultural groups while also fostering among the population a greater understanding of and commitment to civic culture. It reviews the international evidence on service programmes and the newly created National Citizen Service programme in the United Kingdom, arguing for a greater role for service learning in the citizen educational offer.