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Qualifying translators : the role and responsibilities of Higher Education
September 22nd-23rd 2006
Conference topics
- Graduate employability :
- Employability (the labour market) vs. education (society at large)?
- The place of professionally oriented courses in higher education
- Graduate employment prospects: post graduation and with experience
- The national environment: language pairs, translation volumes, technology, globalisation and outsourcing, etc.
- Employability and the ‘social status’ of translators
- Graduate intake :
- Admission criteria
- Incoming and outgoing graduate competence profiles
- Curriculum development :
- Masters degrees : requirements and constraints
- Best practice, curriculum evaluation and upgrades
- Networking (Erasmus Mundus) and distance learning
- Continuing education and translator training
- Internships: when, where, how, how long for?
- Accreditation/certification :
- Procedures for accrediting and certifying translator training programmes and/or translators
- Organising institutions :
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