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Record 1 2023-01-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • School and School-Related Administration
CONT

Faculty appointments are normally made in four ranks :lecturer, assistant professor, associate professor and professor.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Administration scolaire et parascolaire

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Administración escolar y paraescolar
CONT

Según establece dicho real decreto, los nombramientos a los cuerpos docentes universitarios serán efectuados por el rector de la universidad que convoca el concurso que da origen al nombramiento.

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Record 2 2023-01-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Educational Institutions
CONT

In [the] policy, a full-time professor means : a) any professor carrying 50% or more of a normal workload, filling a regular, temporary or replacement position and holding a professorial rank; b) any guest lecturer or visiting professor carrying 50% or more of a normal workload and who is appointed for a period of two consecutive terms or more...

Key term(s)
  • fulltime professor

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Établissements d'enseignement

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Nombramiento de cargos (Generalidades)
  • Establecimientos de enseñanza
CONT

En el contrato con el profesor de tiempo completo se especificarán las cátedras o labores docentes a que haya de estar consagrado, así como el número de horas diarias que le correspondan, según su especialidad científica o técnica.

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Record 3 2023-01-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Educational Institutions
CONT

A lecturer shall provide the services of an expert university teacher having full responsibility for the preparation and instruction of courses, including laboratory courses, and for curriculum development.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Établissements d'enseignement
CONT

La chargée ou le chargé de cours assume la responsabilité de l'enseignement de la charge de cours qu'elle ou qu'il a contractée. Ainsi, la chargée ou le chargé de cours est responsable de la rédaction du plan de tout cours qu'elle ou qu'il enseigne, de la préparation du ou des cours qu'elle ou qu'il enseigne, de leur prestation et de l'encadrement y afférent.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Nombramiento de cargos (Generalidades)
  • Establecimientos de enseñanza
CONT

Los profesores universitarios enseñan materias académicas o laborales a los estudiantes en la educación complementaria o superior, [...] preparan y dan clases, seminarios y clases reducidas, [...] evalúan el trabajo, escriben informes del progreso de los estudiantes y corrigen exámenes. También pueden llevar a cabo trabajos de investigación y tener algunas tareas administrativas.

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Record 4 - external organization data 2022-12-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment - National Occupational Classification (NOC)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir – Classification nationale des professions (CNP)

Spanish

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Record 5 - external organization data 2022-12-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment - National Occupational Classification (NOC)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir – Classification nationale des professions (CNP)

Spanish

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Record 6 2020-05-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Education
DEF

A person employed, usually for a specified period, as a lecturer, researcher, etc., at a university, institute, or other organization.

CONT

A "visiting scholar" is commonly defined as a scholar from an institution who visits a host university and is projected to teach (provide an entire course), lecture (provide a presentation within a course), or perform research on a topic the visitor is valued for.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Pédagogie
CONT

Un chercheur invité peut être un chercheur, un professeur, un boursier postdoctoral ou un étudiant aux cycles supérieurs. L'Université Laurentienne considère que les chercheurs invités constituent un segment important de la communauté universitaire qui peut apporter une contribution notable aux activités de recherche.

Spanish

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Record 7 2020-03-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Educational Institutions
DEF

A member of a college or university faculty who ranks above a lecturer or instructor and below an associate professor.

OBS

The assistant professor does not have tenure. He or she must be assessed and pass tenure to become an associate professor.

OBS

The first stage of a professorship.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Établissements d'enseignement
OBS

Le professeur adjoint est classé immédiatement sous le professeur agrégé et au-dessus du chargé de cours.

OBS

Les termes «professeur adjoint» et professeure adjointe» peuvent prendre un sens différent selon les systèmes éducatifs d'autres pays de la francophonie.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Nombramiento de cargos (Generalidades)
  • Establecimientos de enseñanza
OBS

Administración universataria.

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Record 8 2017-07-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • National Bodies and Committees (Canadian)
  • Literature
OBS

The board of the Stephen Leacock Associates works to preserve the literary legacy of Stephen Leacock, oversee the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour award and encourage the growth of Canadian humour writing. ... The board also administers an annual Student Award for humour writing to encourage young writers, and produces The Newspacket, a quarterly newsletter informing members around the world of the organization’s activities.

OBS

Mandate.... To honour and perpetuate the name and memory of Stephen Leacock, humorist, author, economist and lecturer. To arrange for the annual award and presentation of the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour. To encourage the growth of Canadian humorous writing. To initiate and support activities which widen interest in Leacock and his writings. To widen public interest in the Stephen Leacock Memorial Home to as great a degree as possible in the Leacock legend.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités nationaux canadiens
  • Littérature

Spanish

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Record 9 2012-02-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Education (General)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Pédagogie (Généralités)

Spanish

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Record 10 2011-05-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Meetings and Assemblies (Administration)
  • Group Dynamics
DEF

... a stage presentation from which opportunity is given members of the audience to ask questions and make comments.

CONT

A forum is a meeting for general public discussion of an issue. Someone gives a speech from the platform and people in the audience ask questions. It is a way of presenting information.

OBS

These questions and comments usually come after the lecturer or symposium members have given their presentations.

OBS

pl. forums also fora.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Réunions et assemblées (Administration)
  • Dynamique des groupes
DEF

Réunion très informelle et sans ordre du jour détaillé, à participation non limitée, ayant pour but de donner au public la possibilité de s'exprimer librement sur un thème général.

OBS

L'échange qui est souvent précédé d'un exposé par un ou quelques experts, se déroule entre ces experts et l'auditoire.

OBS

La séance ne conduit pas à la rédaction de conclusions.

OBS

pl. forums.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Reuniones y asambleas (Administración)
  • Dinámica de grupos
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Record 11 2010-02-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • School and School-Related Administration
DEF

Lecturer of senior status in U. K. further education, where a principal lecturer has a status and salary higher than that of a senior lecturer, or in a U. K. university where a senior lecturer is junior in status and salary to a reader or professor and where he/she may, rarely, be a head of department.

OBS

Broadly the U.S. equivalent is assistant professor.

OBS

"Senior lecturer" is sometimes used in Canadian universities, e. g. School of Nursing, University of Ottawa.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Administration scolaire et parascolaire
OBS

On écrirait mieux «sénior».

OBS

sénior : Cette graphie, puisée des Rectifications de l'orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, est attestée dans le Petit Robert (2006).

OBS

The University of Melbourne; poste vacant Maître de Conférence (senior lecturer) à la Section de Français, le Monde nº 882, 9-15 septembre 1965.

OBS

Chargé de cours senior, École des sciences infirmières, Université d'Ottawa.

Spanish

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Record 12 2009-09-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Degrees and Diplomas (Educ.)
  • School and School-Related Administration

French

Domaine(s)
  • Grades et diplômes
  • Administration scolaire et parascolaire

Spanish

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Record 13 2009-04-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plate Tectonics
DEF

The hypothesis that the continents had once formed a single landmass before breaking apart and drifting to their present locations.

CONT

The hypothesis of continental drift was largely developed by the German Alfred L. Wegener, a lecturer in astronomy and meteorology, who suggested that the Earth's continents had at one time been joined in two supercontinents. In the year 1912, Wegener made the proposal that all the continents were previously one large continent, but then broke apart, and had drifted through the ocean floor to where they are now located.

OBS

The terms "drift theory" and "displacement theory" are the current shortened forms used implicitly to mean the "theory of continental drift", or "continental displacement theory".

OBS

displacement theory; Wegener hypothesis: terms used at Natural Resources Canada - Earth Sciences Sector.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tectonique des plaques
DEF

Théorie exposée par Wegener en 1912 [qui] suppose que les continents forment des radeaux de «Sial» de faible densité flottant sur le «Sima» plus dense et visqueux.

OBS

Le terme «théorie de la dérive» est la forme abrégée utilisée couramment de façon implicite pour désigner la «théorie de la dérive continentale» ou «théorie de la dérive des continents».

Spanish

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Record 14 2009-03-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Conferences and Colloquia: Organization
DEF

One who reads or delivers a discourse before an audience, especially for instruction or to set forth some subject.

OBS

Term in use at the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organisation de congrès et de conférences
DEF

Personne qui parle dans une réunion sur des sujets propres à instruire l'auditoire.

CONT

Il est évident que la conduite et les techniques d'un orateur au cours d'un meeting sur la place publique ne seront pas identiques à celles d'un conférencier parlant à un public choisi, venu sur invitations [...]

OBS

conférencier; conférencière : termes en usage aux Instituts de recherche en santé du Canada (IRSC).

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Organización de conferencias y coloquios
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Record 15 2005-09-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Education Theory and Methods
  • Training of Personnel
DEF

[The] traditional approach in which a lecturer lectures a class.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Théories et méthodes pédagogiques
  • Perfectionnement et formation du personnel
CONT

La formation «ex cathedra» sera organisée en modules de 75 minutes, dont 60 minutes d'exposé (avec questions possibles en cours d'exposé) + 15 minutes de discussion.

Spanish

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Record 16 2005-07-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Training of Personnel
  • Internet and Telematics
  • Education Theory and Methods
CONT

Teaching method.-Twelve lecturers of two hours each.-Student assignment on a practical case in the relevant field. The case will deal with the design of interactive visual information on screens.-The assignment is carried out in groups of two. In the seventh lecturer(week 11) feedback is given on work submitted.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Perfectionnement et formation du personnel
  • Internet et télématique
  • Théories et méthodes pédagogiques
CONT

Info Point (information visuelle interactive).

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Capacitación del personal
  • Internet y telemática
  • Teorías y métodos pedagógicos
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Record 17 2005-05-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Education (General)
Key term(s)
  • in house lecturer

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Pédagogie (Généralités)

Spanish

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Record 18 2003-03-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Urban Integration
  • Urban Renewal
CONT

This document, Conservation Guidelines, is one of a suite of documents published to assist investors, developers, design teams and construction companies understand the aims and objectives of the public authorities who regulate the conservation and development process. These documents will also be informative for residents wishing to undertake repairs to their own property. In particular, residents who need to participate in a joint property restoration scheme.

CONT

As Project Engineer and Manager, this position will lead the engineering team process for the planning and development of design documents specific to municipal street improvements. This is a dynamic process that includes utilities, storm drainage, SEPA, roadway and urban design, property restoration, and public involvement.

CONT

With his enthusiastic and entrepreneurial approach to real estate restoration and management, Dan Cort has become a nationally recognized lecturer on urban renewal and revitalization.

Key term(s)
  • realestate restoration
  • real-estate restoration

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intégration urbaine
  • Rénovation urbaine
DEF

Opération d'urbanisme ponctuel consistant à sauvegarder et à mettre en valeur des immeubles ou groupe d'immeubles anciens dont on a décidé la conservation.

Spanish

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Record 19 2002-01-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Training of Personnel
  • Education (General)
DEF

A training technique in which the information that is transmitted comes from the participants themselves rather than from a single lecturer or panel. The learners, as a group, are thus active in teaching themselves.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Perfectionnement et formation du personnel
  • Pédagogie (Généralités)
DEF

Technique de formation qui consiste à aller chercher l'information à transmettre chez les participants plutôt que chez un conférencier ou une équipe. Le groupe de stagiaires participe alors activement à l'enseignement qu'il se dispense lui-même.

OBS

méthode de discussion : reproduit de Terminologie de l'éducation des adultes avec la permission du Bureau international d'éducation.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Capacitación del personal
  • Pedagogía (Generalidades)
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Record 20 2000-08-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Education Theory and Methods
  • Military Training
DEF

One lecturing at a college/university on a single occasion or to provide a particular series of lectures. He [or she] is not a member of the faculty or staff of the college/university.

OBS

Term used in the context of military training.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Théories et méthodes pédagogiques
  • Instruction du personnel militaire
OBS

conférencier invité : Terme utilisé dans le contexte de l'instruction militaire.

Spanish

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Record 21 1999-10-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Legal Profession: Organization
  • International Law
OBS

At the Inns of Court in the fifteenth to seventeeth centuries a reader was a senior barrister who gave readings or a series of lectures to student members of Inns in Lent or August vacations.

DEF

Ancients or benchers of the Inn of Court who were selected to give "readings" or dissertations in his Inns.

DEF

In the Inns of Court, a lecturer on law.

OBS

Now only as the title of an honorary office.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organisation de la profession (Droit)
  • Droit international

Spanish

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Record 22 1999-04-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • School and School-Related Administration
OBS

K. Ng, Ph. D(McGill) : Sessional Lecturer in Mathematics and Statistics.(Carleton University).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Administration scolaire et parascolaire
OBS

chargé de cours à temps partiel, Université Laurentienne.

Spanish

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Record 23 1997-09-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Education (General)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Pédagogie (Généralités)

Spanish

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Record 24 1994-01-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Vocabulary
CONT

In the downsized affirmative-action economy. Stephen is a white able-bodied male-a "wammie, "in the words of Grant Brown, a lecturer in management at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta. Once the stereotype of power and privilege, wammies now are trying to reconcile their personal career ambitions with society's larger goal of increasing representation of other groups at all levels of the work force. "It's certainly going to put the squeeze on us, "said Stephen, 20.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire général
OBS

Comparer a wasp, yuppie, yammie, etc.

Spanish

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Record 25 1989-02-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oral Presentations

French

Domaine(s)
  • Exposés et communications orales

Spanish

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Record 26 1988-06-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • School and School-Related Administration
DEF

the office of lecturer.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Administration scolaire et parascolaire

Spanish

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Record 27 1987-10-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Position Titles
  • Chemistry
OBS

of the Chemical Institute of Canada.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de postes
  • Chimie
OBS

de l'Institut de chimie du Canada.

Spanish

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Record 28 1986-03-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Leadership Techniques (Meetings)
CONT

The opening question should be an open-ended one which does not readily permit of a ’yes’ or ’no’ answer. For example :’Firstly, perhaps someone would like to comment on the suggestion made by(for example, the lecturer) that... What is your experience?’

French

Domaine(s)
  • Techniques d'animation des réunions
CONT

Questions-débat du genre «Comment concevez-vous la formation des adultes (...)?»

Spanish

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Record 29 1986-02-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oral Presentations
DEF

a stand for holding the notes, written speech, etc., as of a lecturer.

CONT

Many speakers like to use a lectern for their notes ....

OBS

desk: a reading table or lectern ....

French

Domaine(s)
  • Exposés et communications orales
DEF

Pupitre sur pied, pour lire ou consulter les ouvrages (...)

Spanish

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Record 30 1985-09-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Meetings and Assemblies (Administration)
  • Group Dynamics
CONT

The lecture is a quick way to present material because, by use of notes, the lecturer may move from one thought to the next in logical fashion. The lecture appeals to people since it is easier to listen than to read. It is rather simple to organize a lecture meeting. All that is necessary is for someone to introduce the speaker.... Since the arrangement is a stage-audience affair, all that is needed are seats for the audience and a speaker's table or lectern.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Réunions et assemblées (Administration)
  • Dynamique des groupes
CONT

Le feed-back dans les conférences à auditoire. Pour le conférencier, le feed-back essentiel lui vient, pendant son discours, des attitudes et réactions de la salle.

CONT

La réunion formelle, avec conférencier et auditoire, met en présence des personnes étrangères les unes aux autres. L'auditoire n'a qu'une existence momentanée. Les auditeurs-spectateurs se trouvent réunis par un but commun actualisé dans le motif ou le thème de la réunion, et celui qui parlera vient, lui aussi, de l'extérieur par rapport à la plupart d'entre eux [...]

Spanish

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