OREANDA-NEWS. October 1, 2009. SCM launched the website of the Discussion Club - a social project on higher education.

Users of the internet website can receive basic information about the Discussion Club and its participants as well as find out more about the materials presented by the speakers at the meetings held. Also, users have an opportunity to subscribe to the news of the website.

"We are going to pay special attention to the website of the project and regularly renew its content and improve the structure", says Natalia Krivulina, SCM Project Manager. "This new website is an opportunity to receive feedback from all the stakeholders - participants of the education market and labour market, national and international experts in the area of education".

Please, note that the discussion clubs panelists include representatives of the education sector, high-profile international organizations and authorities, employers, members of expert community and media. Two regional meetings of the Discussion clubs have already taken place in Donetsk and Lvov. Over 200 representatives of higher education institutions and major employers of Eastern and Western regions of Ukraine attended the meetings.

Next meeting of the Discussion Club, which will bring together higher education institutions and employers of the Southern region of Ukraine (Crimea, Dnepropetrovsk, Zaporozh’ye, Nikolayev, Odessa, Kherson Oblasts) to discuss best practices of interaction will take place on 14 October 2009 in Dnepropetrovsk. The fourth and last meeting will be held in the first ten days of December 2009 in Kiev. For more information about the past and future meetings of the Club, please visit the website of the project.

Besides, within the framework of the Discussion club SCM will issue an electronic collection of cases presented at the regional meetings of the Discussion club. The collection will include the best practical cases of the actual interaction between higher education institutions and employers. Please, see the website for material submission rules.