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20 mai 2013

6.99 mln grads hit market

http://images.china.cn/images1/en/2009home/logo.gifBy Liu Qiang. This year, nearly 6.99 million students will graduate from college, an increase of 190,000 compared with 2012. This number is the highest since the People's Republic of China was founded in 1949. One of the most important indexes of employment, the job contract signing rate, is on a downward slope compared with last year, indicating 2013 will be a tough year for graduates. Up to May 1, the job contract signing rate in Beijing reached 33.6 percent, up 5 percent from April's figures. These numbers are not just mere figures; they actually represent the real stories of graduates in desperate search of employment.
Due to the rapid expansion of college admissions, the number of graduates has almost quadrupled in just one decade, outrunning China's economic growth. The Chinese College Graduates' Employment Annual Report, published by MyCOS.com.cn, shows that in 2013 the job contract signing rate of postgraduates stands at 26 percent, down 9 percent compared with last year; the numbers for undergraduates and junior college students are 35 percent and 32 percent, down 12 percent and 13 percent respectively compared with last year. Read more...
20 mai 2013

A Rennes, les présidents d'université préparent l'avenir

http://memorix.sdv.fr/5/oas2/jactiv/rg/adexch/L21/286896603/Position2/SDV_OFM/BT_REC1_JACTIV_1012_passback/BoutonJactiv_300x250.jpg/6b3137773246426252356741422f364e?Par Olivier Berrezai. La Conférence des présidents d'université se tient jusqu'à vendredi. Trois cents participants, dont 80 présidents venus de toute la France, planchent sur les hommes et les femmes qui font l'université.
Chaque année, le colloque de la Conférence des présidents d'université (CPU) est un temps fort dans la vie universitaire française. Il rassemble les responsables de tout l'hexagone pour réfléchir à l'avenir. Son président national, Jean-Loup Salzmann, par ailleurs à la tête de l'université Paris 13, est invité cette fois par ses homologues rennais, Guy Cathelineau (président de Rennes 1) et Jean-Émile Gombert (Rennes 2).
7e ville universitaire

En ouvrant les débats, mercredi soir, Daniel Delaveau a rappelé que le poids que représente l'université à Rennes, 7e ville universitaire de France (hors Ile-de-France), avec plus de 58 000 étudiants, 1 600 doctorants. « On estime à plus de 14 000 le nombre d'emplois directs et indirects générés par l'enseignement supérieur et la recherche », souligne le maire de Rennes et président de Rennes Métropole.
Le thème abordé cette année lors du colloque: « Quelles politiques de ressources humaines pour l'université de demain? » Sur fond de réforme, car le projet de loi sur l'enseignement supérieur et la recherche sera examiné à l'Assemblée nationale à partir du 22 mai. Geneviève Fioraso, la ministre, avait prévu de faire le déplacement à Rennes.
Finalement, elle est intervenue depuis Paris, par visioconférence, jeudi à 16 h 30. Suite de l'article...
By Olivier Berrezai. The Conference of University Presidents held until Friday. Three hundred participants, including 80 presidents from all over France, are working on the men and women who are university.
Each year, the conference of the Conference of University Presidents (CPU) is a highlight in the French university life.
It brings together the heads of all the hexagon to think about the future. More..

20 mai 2013

La dette des étudiants américains causera-t-elle la prochaine crise économique?

http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc7/372959_238588272882356_833790808_q.jpgLes Etats-Unis compteront près de deux millions de diplômés supplémentaires cette année. ABC News se demande combien parmi ces jeunes étudiants regretteront le passage par l’université, en particulier les frais engagés pour obtenir le précieux sésame. Car les quatre années passées à étudier et à faire la fête coûtent cher. En moyenne, les étudiants américains sortent de l’université avec une dette de 26.000 dollars (soit environ 20.000 euros), lit-on sur le New York Times dans une tribune de l’économiste et prix Nobel Joseph Stiglitz. C’est 40% de plus qu’il y a sept ans.
Les plus endettés vont jusqu’à demander des prêts de 100.000 dollars (77.000 euros), bien au-delà de leur capacité de remboursement. Derrière des montants faramineux se cache une inégalité profonde de la société américaine. Selon Stiglitz, cette crise est intimement liée à celle des subprimes, qui a déclenché la tourmente financière en 2008. Suite de l'article...
http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc7/372959_238588272882356_833790808_q.jpg Na Stáit Aontaithe beagnach dhá mhilliún níos mó céimithe i mbliana. ABC Nuacht iontais cé mhéad de na mac léinn óga brón rith ag an ollscoil, go háirithe na costais a fháil ar an lómhar. Le ceithre bliana anuas ag staidéar agus ag partying daor. Ar an meán, saoire mic léinn Meiriceánach ollscoil le fiach de $ 26,000 (thart ar € 20,000), léigh muid an New York Times in earra ag eacnamaí agus Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz. Níos mó...
20 mai 2013

Pour ses 50 ans, l'Université part en quête de ses pionniers

http://www.laprovence.com/media/kiosqueCompressed/avignon.jpg?time=1369065600Par Stéphane Bernault. Pour fêter dignement son demi-siècle, l'Université d'Avignon lance un appel pour réunir les 160 étudiants qui, en 1963, étrennaient les amphis du centre d'enseignement supérieur scientifique.
Parce que l'Université n'a plus les archives de l'époque, le président Emmanuel Ethis et son équipe sont obligés de lancer un grand appel pour interpeller les anciens étudiants de la promotion de 1963 - année qui marque le retour d'Avignon en tant que ville universitaire avec l'ouverture d'une université dédiée aux sciences - dans le but de pouvoir fêter dignement avec eux le 50e anniversaire de la réouverture. Seul objet de l'époque qui parle de cet événement: un reportage de l'INA, daté du 23 octobre 1963, jour de la rentrée. Il a immortalisé la réouverture de la faculté dans la cité des papes et aussi les premiers cours donnés dans les bâtiments de l'ancienne école normale.
Ce Centre d'enseignement supérieur scientifique, situé rue Louis Pasteur et dépendant de la faculté des sciences d'Aix-Marseille, a offert, 170 ans après la fermeture de l'ancienne université, la possibilité à ses étudiants de se former dans des filières touchant aux mathématiques, à la physique, la chimie et aux sciences naturelles. Ces quelques minutes d'images d'archives ont permis à l'Université d'Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse d'apprendre qu'il y avait 160 élèves présents dans cette toute première promotion et que les étudiants venaient du Vaucluse, du Gard et des Bouches-du-Rhône, comme encore majoritairement de nos jours. Suite de l'article...
http://www.laprovence.com/media/kiosqueCompressed/avignon.jpg?time=1369065600Di Stéphane Bernault. Per celebrare mezzo secolo, l'Università di Avignone chiama a raccogliere 160 studenti nel 1963 aule étrennaient di maggiore centro di educazione scientifica.
Perché l'Università non ha più il record di tempo, il presidente Ethis Emmanuel e la sua squadra sono costretti a lanciare un appello importante per sfidare i vecchi allievi del 1963 - anno segna il ritorno di Avignone Come una città universitaria, con l'apertura di un'università dedicata alla scienza - in modo da poter celebrare con loro il 50 ° anniversario della riapertura. Più...
20 mai 2013

Udacity to offer Master’s degree in Computer Science

http://chronicle.com/img/photos/biz/icons/casting-out-nines.pngBy Robert Talbert. Sebastian Thrun of Udacity today announced that Udacity, Georgia Tech, and AT&T are teaming up to offer an online Master’s degree in Computer Science. Here is Thrun’s official announcement. The details are slim at this point but Thrun states that the course materials will be entirely free, that there will be a tuition charge if you want to have the actual credit-bearing Master’s degree certification, and non-credit certificates will be offered at “a much reduced price point”. Without details, there’s not much to say at this point about all this, other than this is clearly a major advance in the reach of massively open online courses. Udacity was the first to partner with brick-and-mortar universities to offer academic credit for MOOCs, and just as others are beginning to follow suit, they have made the leap into graduate education. Read more...
20 mai 2013

Do You Formally Schedule Research Time?

http://chronicle.com/img/photos/biz/icons/profhacker-nameplate.gifBy Ryan Cordell. I’ve just wrapped up my first year as a junior faculty member at a new institution. Overall it’s been a wonderful transition, but I have run up against that familiar problem for academics: the encroachment of other duties into research time. Teaching well is essential, of course—as indicated by the many posts here at ProfHacker about the classroom—and every faculty post requires significant service. The time demands of both can creep into any crevice in a faculty member’s schedule, however, pushing research further and further into the ever-receding future. For me, at least, a haphazard approach to research time just didn’t cut it. Read more...
20 mai 2013

Updates to ScheduleOnce for Google Calendar Appointments

http://chronicle.com/img/photos/biz/icons/profhacker-nameplate.gifBy Heather M. Whitney. After everyone finished gasping at the news that Google was canceling Calendar Appointments, which we reported about last winter here at ProfHacker, many faculty pursued other online solutions for allowing students and colleagues to view available appointment times and make reservations. (And a brief note before the comments start coming in – Google has indeed since stated that they will keep Google Calendar Appointments for Google Apps for Education, Business, and Government users, but many ProfHacker readers still need the functionality for their personal Google accounts, which they want to use for this purpose.) ScheduleOnce is one option that many educators are using, and the site’s blog just announced a number of very useful updates to the system. Read more...
20 mai 2013

Paying Attention in the Digital Age

http://chronicle.com/img/photos/biz/icons/worldwise-nameplate.gifBy Nigel Thrift. There is an issue, which may or may not be a problem for universities around the world, but that is certainly gaining a lot of attention in Britain and the United States—namely, attention itself. Students increasingly arrive at university having grown up in a world in which their habits of study are heavily influenced by new media. They are used to media acting as a continuous stream of content that is more like a river of images than a page of text. According to one account, that means much shorter attention spans, much greater attention to visual modes of understanding, greater modulation of time, more and more reliance on interfaces, and so on. (See, most recently, Stephen Apkon’s The Age of the Image.) Read more...

20 mai 2013

Dueling Titles

http://chronicle.com/img/photos/biz/icons/lingua-franca-nameplate.pngBy Lucy Ferriss. Hundreds of readers opened their New York Times Book Review recently to see a review of a novel that had already been reviewed in April ... no, wait. That earlier book was Life After Life by the terrific British novelist Kate Atkinson. This book is Life After Life by the terrific American novelist Jill McCorkle. A galumphing typo by the compiler of the table of contents at NYTBR? Nope. There’s the review, glowing about McCorkle’s book much as the reviewer of Atkinson’s book had glowed a mere two weeks earlier. Read more...
20 mai 2013

Hot Dog!

http://chronicle.com/img/photos/biz/icons/lingua-franca-nameplate.pngBy Allan Metcalf. News flash in the etymological world: Two new antedatings of hot dog! In the etymological world, prospecting for earlier instances of a word is like prospecting for gold in the geological world. You look in the online Oxford English Dictionary for the earliest known date of a word and then go data mining in the archives of old publications for something earlier. One of the leading prospectors is Fred Shapiro of the Yale University Library. He announced his findings in the first instance earlier this year on the American Dialect Society’s discussion list, ADS-L. That got the attention of the assay office, a.k.a. Comments on Etymology, a paper and ink journal I’ve written about before. It’s published by Gerald Cohen at the Missouri University of Science and Technology, and it’s the first draft of etymological history. The news about hot dog came in the recently arrived Vol. 42, Issue 6 for March 2013... But why call it a hot dog in the first place? Simple enough: It’s a joke. It goes back to a 19th-century rumor that the sausages were made of dog meat. Read more...
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