To ensure that our species endures, we must advance space-based technologies, Tuija Pulkkinen and Anthony Waas write, and that will require us to break our interdisciplinary boundaries. More...
11 janvier 2020
Parution du nouveau guide d'orientation Transport-Logistique 2019-2020
Destiné à tous les professionnels de l'information, de l'insertion et de l'emploi, le guide d'orientation Transport-Logistique 2019-2020 est paru.
Exhaustif et mettant à disposition toutes les informations nécessaires sur le secteur du Transport-Logistique, ce guide constitue un outil précieux pour aider les jeunes et les personnes en recherche d'emploi ou en reconversion à trouver leur voie !
Formateur occasionnel : Assiette forfaitaire de cotisations 2020 (URSSAF)
« Les formateurs occasionnels sont des salariés qui dispensent de façon occasionnelle des cours dans un établissement d’enseignement ou dans un organisme ou une entreprise de la formation professionnelle continue.
Les cotisations et contributions sociales dues pour l’emploi de formateurs occasionnels, dont l’activité n’excède pas 30 jours civils par an au sein de l’entreprise ou de l’établissement, peuvent être calculées sur une base forfaitaire, lorsque la rémunération n’excède pas un certain seuil.
Les cotisations d’assurance chômage et d’AGS sont calculées sur les rémunérations brutes... »
Universities' Crucial Role in Our Spacefaring Future
Better Data on Competency-Based Education
More information about what works in competency-based programs is needed to inform policy and encourage the growth of this promising form of postsecondary education, writes Charla Long. More...
Plagiarize This!
Why is brazenly putting one's name on a text that someone else wrote repugnant? Should it be? Scott McLemee explores the issue. More...
What You Should Know About Your College
The litigation challenging the admission policies of Harvard College as discriminating against Asian Americans has concluded its trial court phase, with the college prevailing. More...
How Higher Education Empowers Student Voters
Interest in the 2020 election could give colleges and universities an opportunity to increase student voting and civic engagement to a level we've rarely seen before, argues Hahrie Han. More...
The Reality of State Disinvestment in Public Higher Education
Recent studies have produced an avalanche of questionable statistics, argues F. King Alexander, to the effect that public institutions do not warrant greater taxpayer support. More...
Recognizing the Shortcomings of Resilience
Difficulties surmounting certain obstacles could, in fact, be indicators that a student should abandon a particular path and pursue something else, writes Danielle Carr Ramdath. More...
A Friend at the Front of the Room
Like many other higher education institutions in the United States, our three colleges are in the midst of a student mental health crisis. And while some may wonder why colleges are feeling the impact so dramatically, the fact remains that the age group where these symptoms often first manifest is the 18- to 21-year-old range -- our undergraduate student population. More...
