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4 janvier 2013

Universities should set up 'summer schools' to help working class children

By Christopher Hope. Universities should set up “summer schools” to help working class children go on to higher education, the Universities minister has said. The summer schools could be targeted at schools “that aren’t sending people to university”, David Willetts said.
In an interview on BBC Radio Four’s Today programme, said: “There have been summer schools for a long time.
“But I want to see real summer schools which aren’t just a visit for an afternoon which involve targeting the schools that aren’t sending people to university and saying – send you kids to this university for two or three summers.
“They can work in the labs, they can have some mentoring from current students, then they can raise their performance and get to universities – that kind of stuff.”
He said universities should not be used as “instruments of class war”, but could offer conditional offers to working class children who come to the summer schools. Read more...

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4 janvier 2013

University applications fall: 'some talented young people choose not to go'

As the number of university applications drops by 18,000 in a year, Richard Irwin, Head of Student Recruitment at Pricewaterhouse Coopers, says there are many opportunities for those who choose not to pursue higher education. Figures show that demand for higher education is down by 6.3 per cent amid a continuing backlash over fees of up to £9,000-a-year. It emerged that 265,730 British students had applied for university places by mid-December – the lowest number since the data was first collated in 2008/9. The figures – published by the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service – relate to courses starting in autumn this year and are likely to reignite the debate over higher fees. See the video. Read more...

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4 janvier 2013

Concours national d'aide à la création d'entreprises innovantes

Ouverture des inscriptions au concours national d'aide à la création d'entreprises de technologies innovantes 2013
Le ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche lance le 3 janvier 2013 la 15e édition du Concours national d'aide à la création d'entreprises de technologies innovantes. Date limite de dépôt des candidatures: 26 février 2013.
Initié par le ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche; organisé en partenariat avec OSEO, ce concours national a pour objectif de faire émerger des projets de création d'entreprises de technologies innovantes, de soutenir les meilleurs d'entre eux, et de faciliter leur maturation grâce à une aide financière et un accompagnement adapté.
Les dossiers de participation sont disponibles:

sur le site du ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche;
sur le site d'OSEO;
auprès des délégations régionales à la recherche et à la technologie (D.R.R.T.) et des directions régionales d'OSEO.

Ils doivent être envoyés exclusivement par messagerie électronique jusqu'au mardi 26 février 2013, soit à la direction régionale d'OSEO de la région de résidence principale du candidat, soit à la mission ou à la délégation régionale à la recherche et à technologie, pour les candidats résidents dans les COM et les DOM et à la direction d'OSEO d'Ile-de-France Paris pour les candidats résidant à l'étranger.

Règlement, dossier de participation

A lire attentivement: Règlement du concours national 2013.
Dossier de participation: Dossier de participation "en émergence", Dossier de participation "création-développement".
Fiche de candidature à remplir en ligne en ligne et à joindre à votre dossier de participation: Dossier de participation "en émergence", Dossier de participation "création-développement".
Les dossiers de participation seront envoyés exclusivement par messagerie électronique jusqu'au 26 février 2013 (limite de 8Mo par courriel, 5 courriels maximum) à la direction régionale d'OSEO de la région de résidence principale du candidat.
En savoir plus: Généralités sur le concours, Consulter le palmarès 2012, Foire aux questions. Contacts presse: Cécile Corradin - 01 55 55 99 12, Elodie Flora - 01 55 55 81 49.
Clárú Osclaíonn chomórtas náisiúnta a chruthú de na cuideachtaí teicneolaíocht nuálach i 2013
An Aireacht Oideachais agus Taighde Sheol 3 Eanáir, 2013 Cabhraíonn an t-eagrán 15ú lá an Chomórtais Náisiúnta a chruthú cuideachtaí teicneolaíocht nuálach. Spriocdháta le haghaidh iarratas: 26 Feabhra 2013. Cuireadh tús ag an Aireacht um Ard-Oideachas agus Taighde, a eagraíodh i gcomhar le OSEO aidhm an comórtas náisiúnta chun tionscadail a fhorbairt do chruthú cuideachtaí teicneolaíochta nuálaíocha chun tacú le an chuid is fearr acu, agus a éascú aibithe trí chúnamh airgeadais agus tacaíocht chuí. Níos mó...

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4 janvier 2013

If you want to make it with Moocs, you must stand out from the crowd

By Chris Parr. Edinburgh's chief information officer offers advice for Futurelearn platform. Chris Parr reports.
The UK's first massive open online course platform will succeed only if it can fend off competition from established US providers and challengers based closer to home, an expert has claimed.
Jeff Haywood, vice-principal for knowledge management and chief information officer at the University of Edinburgh - the first UK institution to offer Moocs on one of the big US platforms, Coursera - believes that the success of Futurelearn, The Open University's Mooc platform, will depend on its ability to stand out from a growing crowd.
"Moocs work only if you can get massive publicity - if you don't have the publicity, you don't have a Mooc," he said. "It is a barrier that anyone hoping to launch a Mooc has to overcome." Read more...

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4 janvier 2013

QAA pursues no-risk legal strategy with support from taxpayer guaranteed

By David Matthews. The Quality Assurance Agency will be bailed out by the taxpayer if it is sued by a private college that fails an inspection, it has emerged.
The UK Border Agency and the QAA signed a deed of indemnity in August 2011 that covers legal costs of up to £1 million a year.
Responsibility for carrying out "educational oversight" inspections, which colleges must pass if they wish to sponsor international students, has been given to the QAA and a number of other bodies.
The deed covers any legal action taken either by institutions or by students as a result of "decisions, actions or omissions" by the QAA - a charity funded by subscription fees from institutions and contracts from funding councils - as part of its educational oversight role.
Failing such an inspection could severely damage a college's business model as it would be prevented from accepting overseas students. Read more...

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4 janvier 2013

Year-on-year fall in applications continues

By Jack Grove. University applicant numbers have continued to fall for the second consecutive year - with around 18,000 fewer people applying to higher education compared to the same time last year, new figures show.
The number of applicants applying by 17 December for undergraduate study at UK universities fell from 321,908 for the 2012 entry cycle to 303,861 this year - a 5.6 per cent fall, according to statistics released today by the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service.
Excluding early applications which were submitted by 15 October for Oxbridge, medicine, dentistry and veterinary courses, applications are down by 7.2 per cent according to analysis by the Million+ group of new universities.
The figures follow last year's 6.4 per cent dip in applicant numbers at the same point in the applications cycle as students prepared to face tuition fees of up to £9,000 a year for the first time. Read more...

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4 janvier 2013

Doctoral-level thinking: non-PhDs need not apply

By Elizabeth Gibney. Third of sector expects staff to hold qualification, FoI request shows. Elizabeth Gibney reports.
UK universities are increasingly pushing for academic staff to hold PhDs, an investigation has revealed.
Almost 30 per cent of the 113 universities that responded to a Freedom of Information request by Times Higher Education say they have aims or commitments to increase their proportion of academics with doctorates, whether by hiring new staff or by providing training for existing employees.
Of those, a dozen have specific targets. Cardiff Metropolitan University aims to raise its level to 50 per cent of academic staff by 2017-18, Anglia Ruskin University has a target of 60 per cent by 2014-15 and City University London is aiming for 68 per cent by 2016-17.
The percentage of staff with PhDs at UK universities has already risen significantly over the past decade, the data show. Read more...

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4 janvier 2013

Date set for 2013 reputation rankings

The 2013 Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings will be released online on Monday 4 March, ahead of their official launch at the British Council’s Going Global conference in Dubai. The reputation rankings, now in their third year, are based on an invitation-only survey of thousands of senior researchers from all over the world, providing an unparalleled insight into institutions’ global academic prestige.
“This ranking is based purely on subjective judgement, but it is the expert judgement of those who know excellence in teaching and research better than anyone else – experienced, informed and engaged academics,” said Phil Baty, editor of Times Higher Education rankings.
“Almost 50,000 academics have provided their expert insight over just three short annual rounds of the survey, providing a serious worldwide audit of an increasingly important but little-understood aspect of global higher education – a university’s academic brand.”
This year’s reputation rankings will be the based on the 16,639 responses, from 144 countries, to Thomson Reuters’ 2012 Academic Reputation Survey, which was carried out during March and April 2012. The 2011 survey attracted 17,554 responses, and 2010’s survey attracted 13,388 respondents. Read more...

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4 janvier 2013

University applications down by 6%

By Peter Walker. Universities UK expresses concern over impact of tuition fees after Ucas data points to sizeable fall for total 2013 applicant figure.
The organisation representing British universities has expressed concern about the potential impact of tuition fees after figures showed a drop of more than 6% in student applications with less than a month to go before the deadline for 2013 applications.
Data from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (Ucas) showed there were 265,784 university applications by UK-based candidates up to 17 December, 6.3% down on the parallel period in the admissions cycle the year before. While this is less than the 8.4% year-on-year fall seen in earlier Ucas figures, released in mid-November, the looming January deadline makes it ever more likely that the total 2013 applicant figure will see a second sizeable fall following the introduction of annual fees of up to £9,000. Read more...

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4 janvier 2013

MOOCS, Online Learning, and the Wrong Conversation

By Joshua Kim. The fact that MOOCS and online courses have sparked new conversations on your campus about teaching and learning is a terrific development. We should be grateful whenever attention is paid to teaching.
The problem is that neither MOOCS or online courses are, in themselves, a strategy to meet the challenges we all face in higher ed. MOOCS and online courses are a means, not an end, and should be understood as such.
The real conversation that you should be having on campus is about your institutions' goals around teaching and learning.
Simply grafting a MOOC or an online program or online course on to the existing structure of course development and delivery will prove to be an inadequate an ineffective response to the changing higher ed market. Read more...

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