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Host Company
Online hotel booking website offers over 40.000 hotels in Spain and worldwide. It's Span's number one company in that segment as they offer easy and secure booking system plus great hotel content (pictures, videos, user reviews, etc.).

Number of employees: 12
Industry: Tourism

Internship tasks
Web designer junior.

As part of the marketing department you have to spend most of the working time designing web banners to be used in our affiliate programme.
This is part of our Project of re-design creativities to achieve a better ROI from our affiliate sales.
The remaining time will be dedicated to support our Senior designer in the completion of our weekly newsletter sent to our database.

Other possible tasks are:
· Support in content management for the Hotelius website (we have a brand new CMS software to do it)
· Branding Hotelius: design or re design of Hotelius logos, email corporate layout, email frames, etc.
· And any other task the candidate is skilled to do (web 2.0 functionalities, etc)

Remuneration:
200€ / monthly and possible company discounts

Working hours:
From 10.00 to 14.00 or 15.00 a 19.00

Minimum duration:
4 months
February to June (option of 6 months job)

Any special requirements:
A Basic knowledge of Spanish would be useful to work with Product Manager and Senior Creative.

Job Application:
To continue with the application process send an email including your CV and using the jobtitle "Web Design Barcelona" please.

You can check out more Jobs and internship placement offers in Barcelona on our homepage.


To combine the internship placement with a language course in Barcelona check out our homepage about language courses in Barcelona or contact us for further information please.

The University in Leipzig is provided with the first and only Confucius Institute in Eastern Germany.

The fast economic growth was followed by a global interest in the Chinese language. According to the Chinese government there are 30million people from foreign countries learning Chinese. It is also said that the trend is still going upward as the language is used as a tool of international communication.

For that reason a special institute is found by the Chinese Ministry of Education, the city council of Leipzig, and the Universities of Leipzig and Beijing.

The first Confucius Institute was founded in 2004 in Seoul, by 2006 the number of institutions reached 121 in more than 50 countries, six of them are situated in Germany at this moment. In January 2008 the new ones in Heidelberg, Frankfurt and Leipzig are going to open their doors to the public.

In exchange with the Chinese government the Confucius Institute will provide students with language courses, as well as lectures and seminars concerning Chinese culture and literature. It is their aim to diffuse widely the knowledge about Chinese culture, literature, and language. The organization and functioning is mostly adopted from other global operating educational institutions, such as the Spanish Instituto Cervantes or the German Goethe Institut.

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This question is going to be the big issue at the panel discussion of the European Parliament in Brussels today, the 21st of November 2007.

In addition to a panel discussion there is going to be a presentation of the petition of Generation P, which is an Austrian association that consists of several university (post) graduates from various disciplines.

Generation P mainly focuses on two targets: First and foremost, they plead for better or lets just say fair conditions for interns; like a specific time limit, the determination of a minimum wage, or a conjunction of the internship and the field of study of the trainee. Second, the guarantee for special entry job programs for (post) graduates instead of internships and the improvement of general structural characteristics of the internship labour market.

An internship is a placement for students in a company to get practical knowledge and an introduction into working processes. Companies benefit from additional staff power and reconsidering internal structures and students learn from experienced tutors and get practical experiences for their future career. Companies should spend a lot of time in teaching the intern necessary tasks and abilities and treat them as fair as employees.

The topic got attention because it is not unusual that many companies treat their interns somehow like clandestine workers. For that reason, student’s initiatives of several European countries intend to set up an European aid-network. Génération Précaire (France), DGB – Jugend and Fairwork e.V. (Germany), Plattform Generation Praktikum (Austria), European Parliament Stagiaires Association (Belgium), and Generazione 1000 Euros (Italy) are just some of the organizations that are fighting for better conditions for interns and employment for "long-term" or "eternal" interns.

In any other country but the United Kingdom students get more hours of tuition.
In Britain not only the duration for achieving a degree but also the intensity of study on a weekly basis is way less than in any other European country.

In comparison: In British universities students spend approximately 20 to 25 hours studying a week, whereas their counterparts in Portugal, France, and Germany spend up to 40 hours of lectures and private study a week.
One can argue now, that quantity has no effect on quality.

But: Universities should take that matter a bit more serious; after all it can cause a cutback of full-fee paying international students. Foreign students already doubt on the quality of degrees at British universities.

Bahram Bekhradnia, director of the institute and one of the report's authors, states that "a worrying proportion of international students in England already believe they receive poor value for money."

According to the Higher Education Policy Institute (Hepi) it also will be harder for UK universities to continue to argue in the Bologna process, which is attempting to harmonise degrees across Europe, that shorter courses are just as good.

A great excuse for students and universities is that "so many students now have paying jobs…," mentions Professor Graham Gibbs, former director of the Institute of the Advancement of University Learning at Oxford University, "…In England, students are often working up to 20 hours a week but still getting their degrees in three years, while 20 hours a week of study time has become the norm for some subjects."

Well, if that is the excuse: Please Mr. Gibbs, explain us how students in Eastern Europe are able to work for more than 30 hours a week to pay their rent and still study for the same amount of time?!