By Carmen Wymer. First-year and native Chinese student Panyuan Guo decided to study at Miami University during her last year of high school in China. Although she had never been to the United States, she decided it would make her more employable to have this experience. A math major, she said she hopes to teach in China when she is older and instill in students the same love of math that she has. After scouring the websites of various universities, Guo said she chose Miami when her friends recommended it for its great reputation. More...

By Geoff Maslen. Australia's universities are so dependent on fees from international students, they would be forced to close some departments without the income the more than 320,000 foreigners provide each year.
Of this total, a quarter are studying at offshore campuses and 29 per cent are from China.
According to the most recent figures from the federal Education Department, the nation's 39 public universities had total revenues of nearly $24 billion in 2011. Foreign students contributed more than $4 billion in fees and charges to that sum but, because their enrolments fell by about 8000 last year from a peak of 332,600 in 2011, the fee income for 2012 was probably down by more than $100 million - still only a tiny slice out of $4 billion. Read more...

By Shilpa Vasudevan. The rupee depreciating against the dollar, UK’s stringent visa rules, racism in Australia — despite these controversies, international student intake is poised to have a fillip, according to a report by the British Council (BC). Titled ‘The Future Of The World’s Mobile Students To 2024’, The study builds on the findings of a 2012 British Council report, ‘The Shape of Things to Come: Higher education global trends and emerging opportunities to 2020’. BC’s Hong Kong team is behind this report and the results are a result of ongoing market research that involved questionnaires, teleconferences with respondents and interviews with prospective students. More...

By Tim Dodd. Two influential vice-chancellors have renewed their push for “flexibility” in university fees to allow them to rise to boost funding for cash-strapped higher education institutions.

Writing in Monday’s The Australian Financial Review, Glyn Davis, the vice-chancellor of the University of Melbourne, and Greg Craven, the vice-chancellor of the Australian Catholic University (ACU), said the federal government’s review of the demand driven system for university funding should consider this option.

The two represent two different universities with very different interests, but they have found common cause on the fee issue. More...

L'Agefiph, en partenariat avec Liaisons sociales, publie un guide afin de faire le point sur le recrutement des personnes handicapées en alternance.

En cohérence avec les objectifs définis par l'Etat en matière de formation professionnelle, l'Agefiph a fait de l'alternance des personnes handicapées l'une de ses priorités. En juin dernier, elle a lancé un plan de développement visant notamment à renforcer les aides et appuis apportés aux employeurs.

Ce guide donne aux entreprises des repères utiles et des exemples concrets pour développer leurs propres projets d'alternance, identifier les bonnes pratiques et faire le point sur les modalités pratiques.

Renseignements :
Ségolène TOUT-FRANCOIS
chargée de mission au Cafoc de Caen
tél. 02 31 30 15 80
segolene.tout-francois@ac-caen.fr