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This report explores the possible links between quality assurance and the social dimension of higher education at European level, within national higher education systems and at higher education institutions (HEIs) within the European Higher Educa...

Teachers play a vital role in our societies by facilitating the process of students’ learning and socialisation, and promoting critical thinking (or, more generally, the so-called ‘21stcentury skills’) as well as civic engagement. As noted in a Eu...

Article 19 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) states that ‘Children have the right to be protected from being mistreated, physically and mentally’, while Article 31 indicates that ‘Every child has the right to rest and leisure,...

Full and partial school closures, as well as the introduction of full-time distance learning during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, were unforeseen and unexpected phenomena across Europe. Despite existing transformations towards digitalis...

Open Banking is already having a dramatic effect on consumer finance, with services such as instant payments, credit scoring, refunds and subscription payments being implemented from China to Norway. The UK’s Open Banking Implementation Entity (OB...

By now, there’s no doubt that the recent pandemic has accelerated the pace of change in payments. The long-term global decline in cash use accelerated during the pandemic, with markets such as the UK and Netherlands now using cash in fewer than...

The core challenge in combating mobile fraud is the need to establish a strong connection between a device, its user and the credentials being used to complete mobile transactions. Criminals have not been slow to exploit this loophole – by some di...

As digitisation gathers pace, organisations issuing credit cards face a number of competitive threats, including digital wallets linked directly to bank accounts and account-to-account (A2A) solutions which bypass card rails entirely. Accordin...

The present WMO report is the fourth in an annual series starting with the year 2020. It summarizes the observed climate trends and high-impact events, as well as associated socioeconomic impacts, in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Trop...

On the one hand, the continued decline in cash payments accelerated by the recent pandemic creates opportunities, with sources estimating that the number of merchants looking to accept electronic payment will grow by a third in the next few years....

Vietnam’s on-going reform program places emphasis on improving the efficiency of public investment in order to boost the country’s economic performance, which remains highly dependent on factor accumulation. Investment of the state sector has been...

The decade 2001–2010 was the warmest decade since instrumental global average surface temperatures first became available in 1850 (Figure 1). Except for 2008, the remaining nine years of the decade were among the 10 warmest years on record, as war...

The Decadal State of the Climate 2011-2020 is the result of collaboration between NMHSs in the region, the World Meteorological Organization, national statistics offices and specialized agencies of the United Nations. This multi-agency effort prov...

The following sections analyse key indicators of the state of the climate in Latin America and the Caribbean. One such indicator that is particularly important, temperature, is described in terms of anomalies, or departures from a reference period...

The WMO State of the Climate in Latin America and the Caribbean 2024, is the fifth edition of climate reports published annually for this region and has involved National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHSs), WMO Regional Climate Centr...

The interconnection between climate and health is undeniable. The climate, exacerbated by climate change, poses systematic and serious threats to human health. Climate change is documented to be impacting human health in many complex ways, includi...