RE-THINKING THE POSTGRATUATE EDUCATION: THE CASE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO (PORTUGAL)

Recent European documents have emphasized the important role of Postgraduate Education in Higher Education, bringing up new perspectives and the need to re-think it in order to adjust its functions to the challenges that society and education is facing today.

RE-THINKING THE POSTGRATUATE EDUCATION: THE CASE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO (PORTUGAL)

Recent European documents have emphasized the important role of Postgraduate Education in Higher Education, bringing up new perspectives and the need to re-think it in order to adjust its functions to the challenges that society and education is facing today.

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