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Four levels of information specialists are needed, each with its own interdisciplinary curriculum. New plans are sketched by the Director of the Knowledge Availability Systems Center, University of Pittsburgh.

Education is considered an essential tool for achieving sustainability-related goals. In this regard, education for sustainable development (ESD) and climate change education (CCE) have become prominent concepts. The central characteristics of both concepts influence the non-hierarchical network governance structure that has formed around them: (1) their international origin, (2) the conceptual ambiguity that surrounds them, and (3) the limited implementing power of international organizations who developed these concepts. Hence, networks are essential to ESD and CCE, however, only few studies have used social network analysis (SNA) techniques to analyze their governance structure. The aim of this article is to illustrate how to use SNA, based on Twitter data, as an approach to examine the governance structure that has developed around ESD and CCE. We conduct an illustrative SNA, using Twitter data during three global climate change summits (2015-2017) to examine CCE-specific debates and identify actors exerting the most influence. We find that international organizations and international treaty secretariats are most influential across all years of the analysis and, moreover, are represented most often. These findings show that using SNA based on Twitter data offers promising possibilities to better understand the governance structure and processes around both concepts.

"A considerable number of higher educational institutions in North America, Oceania, and Europe, offer what are known as cooperative education, work-integrated learning, work placements, sandwich courses, or internships, to provide pragmatic experience to students, and its popularity is spreading to many higher educational institutions in the world. Alongside such development, the rising needs for theoretical research and objective assessment are felt among those academics and practitioners involved in these programmes.The book offers a rigorous theoretical framework based on the human capital theory of labour economics and econometric analysis, which are well-established concepts in the field of economics, with an objective quantitative methodology to analyze and assess cooperative education programmes"--

In this paper, there is the review of some of the most important admissions in the field of creativity and innovation in the context of development of contemporary education. Although it is very complex field, there is the tendency to see it as a major driving force of economic and social progress. The creativity is seen, at the same time, as the process and the product, and also as individual and general capability. The different approaches are not exclusive. That is the reason why the contemporary education can be approached from different aspects. On the other hand, the legal and other acts that have planned the development of creativity and innovation in education and the status in the practice, are analyzed critically. There is, also, taken in examination, the relationship of educational plans toward creativity and innovation in the sense of balance between : a) different fields b) different levels of education c)respect for the certain rules and free will d)individual interests and potentials of students. All the previous aspects are illustrated by the earlier research. Even though, there are positive results, the contemporary curriculum allow little space for the activities that could stimulate creative potential. It is necessary to plan the more creative forms of teaching in defining the various forms of education. The education and stimulation of teachers to apply innovative ways of teaching and new technologies could improve the process of studding and the advancement of the quality of teaching.

This paper examines the factors effecting girl education. Women education plays a vital role in the development of the country. It helps in improving the quality of life at home and outside. Educating a girl is one of the best investments her family, community, and country can make. The development of any nation requires the collective efforts of its citizens. More importantly, to achieve national development, both male and female members of the society need to be carried along (Alumode, 2000).