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Heidelberg (GER), October 2016 - Professional qualifications can be the decisive success factor for refugees looking to enter the labor market. Technical knowledge and language skills are not enough in themselves. Competence in Outlook and Microsoft Office products is also vitally important, not least because they provide the basis for creating documents and writing job applications, as well as the efficient management of meetings and contacts.

London (UK), September 2016 - The Training Foundation, under the Training Accreditation Programme (TAP) has developed a wholly online, tutor-supported set of international qualifications offered by the Institute from 01 September 2016.

London (UK), September 2016 - A new paper by Professor Martin Kilduff of the UCL School of Management has won the prestigious "Best Annals Paper of the Year Award" from the Academy of Management Annals. The article addresses the question of whether people in departments, organizations, and even entire industries can experience the same emotions at the same time. And if this is the case, what the causes and consequences of shared emotional states are.

Barcelona (E), July 2016 - The Learning Impact Awards recognize the most outstanding and influential learning-technology applications from around the world. They were created in 2007 to showcase excellent technological applications that tackle the most important challenges in education on a worldwide scale. "Explica!, Assess and Submissions" make up the ecosystem of UOC mobile apps to support continuous assessment and are being piloted this semester by the Technology department.