AGEFOS PME a mené une enquête téléphonique auprès de 3 200 bénéficiaires du Contrat de sécurisation professionnelle afin d'analyser la satisfaction des bénéficiaires et mesurer la valeur ajoutée du parcours de formation sur le retour à l'emploi des licenciés économiques.
En 2013, AGEFOS PME a financé des parcours de formations à destination de 16 634 bénéficiaires dans le cadre du CSP. 73 % ont occupé un emploi entre la fin de leur formation et la réalisation de l'enquête principalement en CDD ou en contrat en intérim (57 % des cas). Pour accéder à tous les résultats. Voir l'article...

By Malini Sen. India is New Zealand's second largest and fastest-growing market for international students. New Zealand's focus on skilled graduates and employment pathways is making it a popular study abroad destination for students from India.
"According to Indian students, the big drawcard for them is the hands-on, practical approach New Zealand's education system has to offer. One student referred to it as a 'living curriculum.' Internships and industry placements are a common feature of the courses. So, students graduate equipped with internationally recognised skills, qualifications and experience to either start their ventures or enter the workforce, in India, New Zealand or anywhere in the world," says Grant McPherson, chief executive, Education New Zealand. More...

By Iro-Anna Mamakouka. College Board President and CEO David Coleman, announced changes in the content of the SAT exams for the entrance of candidates interested in applying to American Universities. These changes are expected to be the most significant ones made in the last 10 years.
The SAT exams will no longer be examining students on specialized vocabulary knowledge and the essay will be optional instead of mandatory. On the contrary, the exams will include texts which may have references to historical U.S. documents, such as the Declaration of Independence or speeches by Martin Luther King. See more...

By Achuthsankar S Nair. While lakhs of Indian students study abroad, contributing an estimated Rs 50,000 crores to foreign countries, India attracts less than a lakh foreign students and inflow of well below Rs 1000 crores. What can we do to balance this? A pragmatic action seems to be to attract short-term study-abroad students from west.
Foreign Universities are often perceived as a threat to Indian higher education system, both in terms of economics and academics. An estimated 50,000 crores of rupees is siphoned from India when lakhs of Indian students fly out to study in foreign Universities, every year. More...

Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has formulated a committee of vice chancellors of UET Lahore, University of Punjab, GC University Lahore, University of Gujrat and Fatima Jinnah Women University Rawalpindi to arrange a conference on ‘Future Road Map of Higher Education’ to put up recommendations for strengthening higher education sector. 
Earlier, he had constituted a high-level committee in 2012, under the chairmanship of Senator Zulfiqar Khosa, for improvement of higher education in Punjab. 
The committee formulated its recommendations, which were subsequently presented to the chief minister by the Higher Education Department secretary. More...

Brilliant MUST students to be sent abroad for PhD. AJK Minister for Higher Education and Colleges Matloob Hussain Inqlabi has said that the higher education is among the top priorities of the state government as it has been strives for quality education across the liberated territory.
He was speaking at the prize distribution ceremony of the Department of Home Economics of state-run Mirpur University of Science and Technology (MUST) at the varsity’s old campus. More...

Thursday’s provincial budget has something for everyone, from preschoolers, who will soon be offered a full day of school when they enter Kindergarten, to university students, who will get a major break on their finances, to seniors, who will get a modest increase in their disposable income.
Parents, young families
If you’re a parent with young children – or are planning to have some – the budget is aimed at you. Full-day Kindergarten, something the government has studied in the past but until now has resisted, will launch in September 2016. More...

By Janet Lorin. For parents looking to pay for college, one of the best deals comes with a 1.2 percent, no-fee loan. The hitch: Your kid has to get into Princeton University.
Princeton, which accepts only 7.3 percent of applicants, is alone in the eight-member Ivy League in offering financing to parents. Its loans are cheaper than those offered by the federal government, and families with annual incomes of up to $500,000 may qualify. More...

By Jerome R. Stockfisch. It’s common in the private sector for a major company to turn to an executive search firm when it’s time to fill a high-profile vacancy.
In what is now the big-money world of academia and college athletics, school administrators are turning to outside firms to nab top talent, too.
With millions of dollars at stake – not necessarily in corporate profits, but ticket sales, TV contracts, research dollars and alumni support – local universities are borrowing the corporate model and have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars recently filling corner offices. More...

Le cabinet Universum vient de dévoiler son enquête annuelle des entreprises faisant rêver les étudiants français en management et en ingénierie. Si LVMH et EADS conservent leurs rangs en tête de ce classement, cette étude révèle bien d'autres enseignements intéressants.
A quels employeurs les étudiants français rêvent-ils ? Le cabinet Universum vient de dévoiler son étude annuelle s'intéressant à cette question, après avoir mené une vaste enquête auprès de 36 672 futurs diplômés de master (dont 18 561 d'écoles de commerce, 14 632 d'écoles d'ingénieurs, et 2 400 d'universités). Suite...