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31 mars 2013

L'accord de libre-échange américano-européen se heurte à l'exception culturelle française

Toute l'europe.eu, Toute l'europe en un clicL'accord de libre-échange "le plus important au monde", c'est la promesse du président de la Commission européenne, José Manuel Barroso. Selon les estimations des services de l'exécutif européen, l'accord commercial devrait rapporter la somme de 119 milliards d'euros par an à l'Union européenne et 95 milliards à son partenaire américain.
Actuellement, les échanges commerciaux transatlantiques représenteraient 700 milliards d'euros, soit près d'un tiers des flux de marchandises mondiaux. En termes d'investissements bilatéraux, 2,4 milliards d'euros auraient transité de part et d'autre de l'Atlantique en 2011. Selon l'Agence française pour les investissements internationaux (AFII), les Etats-Unis seraient  le premier investisseur étranger en France (88 milliards d'euros), assurant quelque 450 000 emplois sur le territoire national. Si la Commission européenne souhaite débuter les négociations avec Washington d'ici le mois de juin prochain, la France ralentit la cadence. Favorable à un accord commercial transatlantique, la ministre française du Commerce extérieur, Nicole Bricq, a posé ses conditions, lundi 25 mars, affirmant qu'il "ne faut pas que la négociation s'engage dans la précipitation, [qu']il est hors de question de donner un mandat de négociation bâclé", envisageant un travail de "plusieurs années". Parmi les points d'achoppement de l'accord, "l'exception culturelle française". Première personnalité politique à s'être publiquement exprimée sur la question, François Hollande s'est clairement positionné à l'issue du dernier sommet européen: "Je suis pour qu'il y ait une négociation qui s'ouvre pour lutter contre un certain nombre de barrières douanières ou de freins aux échanges de façon à favoriser la croissance […]. Je veux que ces domaines [l'exception culturelle et les normes sanitaires] soient exclus du champ de la négociation". Suite de l'article...

Throughout europe. Eu europe All in one click The free trade agreement "the most important in the world," is the promise of the President of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso. According to estimates by the European executive services, the trade agreement would bring the sum of 119 billion euros per year the European Union and 95 billion to its U.S. partner. More...

31 mars 2013

Congé individuel de formation: baisse du nombre de dossiers pris en charge en 2011

Carif Oref Midi-PyrénéesCongé individuel de formation: baisse du nombre de dossiers pris en charge en 2011
Le Fonds paritaire de sécurisation des parcours professionnels (Fpspp), dans son enquête quantitative CIF 2011, observe une nouvelle baisse de 5,74% en 2011 du nombre de CIF (congé individuel de formation) CDI pris en charge et une baisse de 2,6% du nombre de dossiers de CIF CDD pris en charge.
Il note une durée en baisse pour le CIF CDI, en hausse pour le CIF CDD et des coûts en hausse.
Pour les autres dispositifs, si le nombre de dossiers de bilan de compétences pris en charge en 2011 diminue pour les CDI et pour les CDD, celui de dossiers de VAE (validation des acquis de l'expérience) CDI est en hausse « de 3,4% » (soit 8 556 dossiers en 2011). Le nombre de dossiers de VAE CDD est en baisse « de 26% » (238 dossiers). Fpspp - Enquête quantitative CIF 2011 (décembre 2012).
CARIF Oref Midi-Pyrenees Individual training leave: fewer files supported in 2011
Joint Fund of career security (FPSPP) in his quantitative survey CIF 2011, observed a further decrease of 5.74% in 2011, the number of CIF (individual training leave) CDI supported and down 2, 6% of the number of cases of CSD CIF supported. More...
31 mars 2013

Beware cutting back on support for HE in the developing world

http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UWN.jpgBy Hans de Wit. Internationalisation of higher education in the past was based more on national policies and strategies than is currently the case. With the exception of the United States, which has never had a national policy, in other industrialised countries the international dimension in higher education was strongly guided by national objectives and priorities two decades ago.
Over the past 20 years, though, the emphasis had shifted to a more diverse institutional focus on internationalisation, stimulated in Europe by the Bologna process. There appeared to be less need for a common national approach to internationalisation in the global knowledge economy – but there are signs of a revival.
A recent phenomenon is the development of national policies in countries such as Australia, Brazil, Canada, Japan, Norway and the United Kingdom, and even some signs of a national focus in the United States (skilled immigration, global citizenship). Some other countries, such as India, Malaysia, Romania, South Africa and The Netherlands, are also working on a new national policy for internationalisation. Read more...
30 mars 2013

La Commission européenne tente de séduire les étudiants et chercheurs étrangers

Toute l'europe.eu, Toute l'europe en un clicLa Commission européenne tente de séduire les étudiants et chercheurs étrangers
Etudiants et chercheurs internationaux, "you're welcome in Europe!". Si quelque 200 000 étudiants et chercheurs en provenance de pays tiers participent chaque année à un programme d'échange avec l'Union européenne, leur nombre tend à décroître. Pour inverser la tendance, Cecilia Malmström, commissaire européenne aux Affaires intérieures, propose de faciliter l'accès et l'installation des étudiants, chercheurs, mais également des écoliers, des stagiaires, des bénévoles et  jeunes filles au pair au sein de l'Union européenne.
Pour ce faire, la Commission entend simplifier les règles et procédures administratives d'admission à l'Union. De même, les étudiants internationaux devraient désormais être en droit d'exercer un job durant leurs études. Enfin, à l'issue du programme d'échange, l'exécutif européen propose d'accorder un délai supplémentaire d'un an à tout étudiant ou chercheur à la recherche d'un poste ou souhaitant créer sa propre entreprise sur le sol européen.
Ar fud na hEorpa. AE eoraip Gach i amháin cliceáil Tá an Coimisiún Eorpach ag iarraidh a seduce mic léinn eachtracha agus do thaighdeoirí. Mic léinn agus taighdeoirí idirnáisiúnta, "tá tú fáilte roimh san Eoraip". Más rud é thart ar 200,000 mac léinn agus taighdeoirí ó thríú tíortha páirt a ghlacadh gach bliain i gclár malartaithe leis an Aontas Eorpach, bíonn an líon a laghdú. Níos mó...
30 mars 2013

Studienanfängerzahl sinkt auf hohem Niveau

http://www.epapercatalog.com/images/zeit-online-epaper.jpgDie Zahl der Studienanfänger hat den Rekordwert von 2011 nicht halten können: 2012 schrieben sich fast fünf Prozent weniger ein. Ein Studiengang schrumpfte besonders. 
Die Zahl der Erstsemester-Studierenden an deutschen Hochschulen sinkt – ausgehend von einem hohen Niveau. Im vergangenen Jahr schrieben sich nach Angaben des Statistischen Bundesamtes 493.500 junge Menschen erstmals zum Studium ein – ein Rückgang von 4,9 Prozent im Vergleich zum Vorjahr. Die Zahl der männlichen Erstsemester sank sogar um knapp zehn Prozent auf 249.600 – die Aussetzung der Wehrpflicht 2011 hatte damals die Zahl der männlichen Erstimmatrikulierten überdurchschnittlich stark steigen lassen. Bei den Frauen gab es einen leichten Zuwachs um 0,8 Prozent auf 248.800. Mehr...
30 mars 2013

Banks Write Off $3 Billion in Student Debt Already This Year

By Julia Lawrence. US Banks are now starting to feel a real pinch of the student loan crisis as the number of students who default on their debt is skyrocketing. In just the first two months of 2013, banking institutions have had to write off more than $3 billion in student loan debt, a 36% increase over the same period last year. The data comes courtesy of a report by the credit reporting agency Equifax, which also shows that while part of the increase could be attributed to continuing economic malaise, other factors play a role as well. The borrowing volume is up over the past year as more people secure loans to go back to school to wait out a weak job market and as college tuition continues to grow. Read more...
30 mars 2013

Shorter PhDs and more active thesis committees

By David Kent. It seems that my last post created a bit of a stir and unfortunately I was away for a week and didn’t catch up to the comments right away. I think it’s important based on those comments to clarify a few things about my perspective on this before going into ways that we can manage the core issues.
First, I am not advocating for low postdoctoral salaries in Canada – far from it. I know there are many underpaid and undervalued highly educated people out there and the crisis is especially bad in the humanities (low to no funding) and life sciences (very lengthy doctoral and postdoctoral terms). The main point I was trying to make in the article was that we need to provide good sound reasoning why increases are needed and where the money should come from. I also would stress again that the idea of paying more grant dollars into salary will not be palatable without such a measured approach.
Second, I do not view academic research like a private-sector capitalist endeavour and find the comparison to coal mining unfair. To me, research is the stuff governments pay to get done for the public because the private sector won’t pay for it. Unfortunately, that gives academic researchers extraordinarily little bargaining power – if we stop doing academic research, few will notice the effect immediately. Moreover, coal miners worked in the 1800s because they had to in order to feed families. Despite the chronic undervaluing of postdoctoral fellows, these postdocs are not starving nor do they have “no other option” to make more money – they can (and do) leave. It doesn’t mean that academic researchers should be poorly paid, but it does again mean that the case for increases needs to be strongly argued and well justified. Read more...
30 mars 2013

A doctorate for all seasons

http://resources2.news.com.au/cs/australian/paid/images/sprite/module-headings-full-width.pngMORE coursework and skills with wide application are among suggestions to update doctoral education.
"The traditional purpose of a PhD was to provide the training necessary to start on an academic career," says a new discussion paper, The changing PhD, from the Group of Eight universities.
"This is no longer the case and in some countries as few as five percent of PhD graduates find permanent academic positions.
"Another potential career pathway is as a researcher in industry.
"However, many PhD graduates find themselves in non-academic, non-research positions in which they will not use their disciplinary knowledge and skills directly. Read more...
30 mars 2013

Degrees of Certainty

By Melonie Fullick. A recent post by David Naylor, the President of the University of Toronto, has been quite popular with academics and has generated a lot of commentary. Naylor makes the argument that Canadian higher education is dogged by “zombie ideas”, and he describes two of them: the first is that universities “ought to produce more job-ready, skills-focused graduates [and] focus on preparing people for careers”. The second is the idea that research driven by short-term application or commercialization, should be prioritized by universities because it provides a better return on governments’ funding investments. I focus here on the first point, since in the past few weeks, in the run-up to the federal budget on March 21st, there has been a great deal of coverage of the alleged “skills gap” in in the Canadian workforce. Others have already done the work of summarising this issue, but as a quick recap, the argument goes something like this: business leaders and employers in Canada complain (to the government) that they cannot fill positions because candidates lack the skills. Read more...
30 mars 2013

Skills debate: Why can’t we all get along?

By Léo Charbonneau. Prior to the unveiling of the federal budget last Thursday, there was lots of talk about a “skills mismatch” in Canada which had some within the university community concerned. That’s because at least some of the reporting contained blithe assertions like, “there are too many kids getting BAs and not enough welders,” or hoary clichés about “all those bartenders and baristas with expensive university degrees.”
In the end, the skills provisions in the 2013 budget likely will have little practical impact, positive or negative, on universities. The budget’s signature new Canada Jobs Grant program to help train or retrain Canadians for “labour market demands” is meant to be of short duration and is aimed at community colleges, career colleges and trade union training centres. There is some doubt about whether such a program will have the desired effect or is needed, but that’s a different matter. Read more...
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