Mobilisation de l'ARIF

La Région rappelle que la mise en œuvre du protocole se fera progressivement et nécessite notamment des décisions de la commission permanente du Conseil régional.
D’ici là, l’ARIF reste mobilisable par les demandeurs d’emploi sur le site de la Région pour permettre la réalisation de projets de formation qualifiant non pris en charge par d'autres dispositifs (voir notre fiche technique).

Baisser le nombre de corps de la fonction publique

En réalité cette réforme vient de plus loin et s’inscrit dans une démarche présente dès 2005 et qui devrait se poursuivre jusqu’en 2018. L’objectif affiché par le gouvernement est de parvenir à ne conserver que 230 corps actifs à cette date. La Fondation iFRAP elle, propose une cible plus ambitieuse de 211 corps. Pour autant, nous considérons que cette approche qui reste dans le cadre de la fonction publique de carrière n’est qu’une étape qui devra nécessairement se trouver dépassée à terme par une logique de métiers.
Les enjeux essentiels de la réduction des corps ne sont pas minces et dépassent de loin la simple démarche de « simplification » administrative. Au moins sur deux points:



Why part-time higher education matters
A special issue of Adults Learning, exploring the crisis in demand for mature and part-time higher education, has been published by NIACE. Despite the extension of eligibility to tuition fee loans to part-time students in 2012, part-time enrolments have gone into free fall, with full-time, mature student numbers also in steep decline.
This Adults Learning Extra gives some of the leading commentators and key stakeholders in the sector, an opportunity to publicly debate an issue of growing concern, to set out the major challenges the sector faces and to consider how to move forwards towards a solution.
The journal poses a critical challenge to government and institutions: to better understand the barriers to mature and part-time access to higher education and to consider how they can better persuade, encourage and incentivise adults to participate.
Third Conference of the Americas on International Education (CAIE)

It gives us great pleasure to announce the third edition of the Conference of the Americas on International Education (CAIE), being held from October 16th to 18th, 2013, in Monterrey, Mexico. In keeping with the theme « Knowledge Mobility: Responsibility and Resources », CAIE Mexico 2013 invites decision-makers and key players involved in the internationalization of higher education in the Americas to come learn, strategize, and engage in dialogue and debate regarding the best-practices and latest trends in this particular field.
After two successful conferences in Canada (2010) and Brazil (2012), CAIE Mexico 2013 aims to discuss and define the role played by all actors involved in the question of internationalization, such as university administrators, government officials, researchers, professors, students and representatives from both the private and philanthropic sector, not to mention personnel involved in the human resource, financial, and information technology side of the field. Understanding how to maximize involvement from all those who contribute in this sector will be an important topic of discussion, as well as a focus on developing important strategic alliances between key players in order to successfully navigate and manage the future of higher education in the Americas. Read more…
GHEAR: Our Universities to 2030 - Forging collaborations and unlocking excellence for the generation born today

20 May 2013
11:00 – 16:00What time is this for me?
Grand Hyatt Hotel, Washington D.C., USA
Event contact
Heather Lonsdale (h.e.lonsdale@sheffield.ac.uk) The University of Sheffield
This event will bring together HE leaders, researchers, policy makers and students, with special guest speakers: Jo Beall (British Council: Director of Education & Society) & Aims McGuinness (National Centre for Higher Education Management Systems: Boulder, Colorado).
Through keynote addresses, panel debates and a networking lunch participants will be invited to to imagine with WUN members and invited experts how the HE system will develop in the lifetime of a potential student born in 2013. What will change and what should change?
- What are the effects to come of drivers such as demographics, local capacity, funding regimes, mobile technologies and MOOCS?
- Where should national resources be allocated to support research excellence economic growth, and equity of access?
- How can the HE system support scientific, economic, and intellectual development in developing as well as developed nations?
The GHEAR is currently developing a programme of work to provide research digests, policy case-studies and thought pieces in these and other areas. The event will mark the launch of the WUN ‘Commissioned Reports on Globalisation in Higher Education and Research’ and provide further opportunity to shape and suggest ‘hot topics’ of interest to this expert audience. View the symposium flyer.
UK, France vie for research collaboration with India

Cameron’s 18-20 February visit generated more excitement and media coverage in India than Hollande’s presence a week earlier, but experts felt that India was in a win-win situation in relations with both countries.
With a number of letters of intention and other agreements signed by their respective higher education ministers, Geneviève Fioraso and David Willetts, France and Britain announced several big-ticket collaborations.
A joint statement by India and France released on 14 February announced “an ambitious education plan, including twinning of higher education institutions, mutual recognition of degrees, research collaborations and training of teachers”.
The UK now boasts research collaborations with India valued at a total of £100 million (US$152 million) compared to £1 million just five years ago, it was revealed during Cameron’s visit. Read more...
Detecting the real authors of books and papers

The researchers say the system is now freely available for others to use and could be adapted for different types of text and for languages other than English.
Led by Professor Derek Abbott of the University of Adelaide’s school of electrical and electronic engineering, the six-member team used advanced software techniques to analyse author styles based on commonly used words and their frequencies in the text. Read more...
Willetts urges UK universities to put courses online

Countries such as India and Indonesia have a soaring demand for university courses - creating a market for the UK's universities, says Mr Willetts.
But he argued that the scale of demand would need to be met by online courses as well as campus universities.
Online universities were going to be "very significant," he said.
Mr Willetts, speaking at the Guardian Higher Education Summit, told university leaders that online universities were going to be an important part of the global expansion in student numbers. Read more...
Universities need to embrace the Asian Century

The same sentiment applied to the trans-Tasman talks last month between New Zealand Prime Minister John Key and Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, who agreed that the Asian Century holds great opportunities for New Zealand and Australia.
The Asia region consists of 48 countries that account for a quarter of the world's nations and 60% of its population; its economic power and growth are by world standards huge and this trend will assuredly continue in the future. Read more...