Institute of Social Studies
- Institute of Social Studies
The Institute of Social Studies (ISS) is an international institute of higher education on social and economic change with a focus on development processes. It was founded in 1952 by the Dutch universities to assist in the training and further education of professionals, especially from developing countries.
The Institutes academic staff represents an exceptional range of experience and theoretical interests. Over 10,000 students from more than 160 countries have studied at the Institute.
The ISS is one of the five international education institutes of the Netherlands, each focusing on a different scientific field: the IHE, IHS, ITC and the MSM.
The ISS is the only academic institute in the Netherlands apart from the universities that gives a PhD degree (in development studies).
The ISS is affiliated to FION and SAIL, umbrella organisations that represent thirteen international education institutes in the Netherlands.
The ISS forms part of the Dutch academic scene. There are close ties through participation in the research (PhD-) school CERES, through appointments of Professors at other universities and joint teaching programmes. ISS has a special partnership relation with the Utrecht University which acts as the liaison of the ISS with the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science.
Focuss.eu
[http://www.focuss.info/ Focuss.Info] - initiated by the Institute of Social Studies with currently [http://www.focuss.info/partners.html 26 collaborating organisations] in the development field - provides a search engine for practitioners, researchers and students in the area of global development studies. Other than generic search engines, like Google and Yahoo, [http://www.focuss.info/ Focuss.info] indexes a specific choice of electronic resources, selected by librarians, researchers and practitioners working in participating institutions. The resources are selected based on their relevance for the development studies and the quality of the information. Individual researchers, students and practitioners can also contribute by adding their bookmarks. This creates a search engine that is based on personal activities of a limited number of individuals who are working in the same field.
External links
* [http://www.iss.nl Institute of Social Studies website]
* [http://maps.google.nl/maps?f=l&hl=nl&geocode=&q=institute+of+social+studies&near=Den+Haag+(ZH)&sll=52.082038,4.297972&sspn=0.011578,0.029182&ie=UTF8&ei=ut_CRr-uD4T02gLv5em7Ag&cd=1&cid=52083811,4303465,6965247438570402797&li=lmd Map location]
* [http://focuss.info Focuss.Info search engine]
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