By Lisa Bachelor. Call for regulation as living costs outstrip loans, with rents rising 25% in three years, leaving half of undergraduates struggling to pay bills. More...
16 août 2015
11 août 2015
Le travail, solution à la crise
Par Marie-Laure Cittanova. On pense souvent au travail comme au résultat de la croissance économique. Mais il en est aussi le principal facteur, sans oublier qu’il est ce que l’on a trouvé de mieux comme facteur de réalisation et d’estime de soi. Les Rencontres économiques d’Aix-en-Provence 2015 ont planché sur le sujet. Voir l'article...
5 août 2015
The crisis facing Israel’s universities
By David Newman. During the past five years Israel’s universities have attempted to make up lost ground following a decade of reduced public funding, which brought about a major brain drain.
A great deal of attention has been devoted in recent months Israel’s response to the academic boycott, despite the fact that its real impact on Israeli scientific collaboration with the world is minimal. More...
4 août 2015
When Too Little is Too Much
By Matt Reed. Quick, who’s likelier to default on a loan: someone with $100,000 of debt, or someone with $2000 of debt?
If you answered $100,000, sorry. The correct answer is $2,000. And the reasons for that shed light on the whole “student loan crisis” debate. Read more...
31 juillet 2015
Experts debate whether student loans are a crisis for students and the economy
By . Brown Center Fellow Beth Akers recently participated in a lively debate over the controversial motion, “student loans are a crisis for students and the economy,” at the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA) annual conference. More...
17 mai 2015
Universities denied access to West's science journals
By Eugene Vorotnikov. Science departments in Russia’s universities are facing a crisis of information following the decision last week of a Western publisher to lock them out of access to thousands of unique scientific journals and magazines because the government can no longer afford to foot the bill. Read more...
17 mai 2015
Deep Recession-Era Cuts Making for a Difficult Rebound
Many states are moderately restoring higher education funding, but major cuts during the 2008 recession have made for an uphill battle.
In 47 states, per-student public funding for higher education remains well below prerecession levels, according to a report released Wednesday by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Read more...
25 avril 2015
Compte-rendu du projet "Démocratie Mise à Jour" : Le numérique un élément de réponse à la crise politique ?
Par . A travers l’organisation d’ateliers participatifs dans cinq villes de France, l’Institut Montaigne, Terra Nova et Renaissance Numérique ont formé une association inédite, et ont réuni sous forme d’ateliers participatifs des experts, des élus et des citoyens pour débattre de la place du numérique au sein de notre démocratie et formuler des propositions concrètes pour renouveler la vie publique et citoyenne.En attendant la publication de notre rapport, nous vous proposons de lire la tribune rédigée par Laurent Bigorgne (directeur de l'Institut Montaigne), Guillaume Buffet (président de Renaissance Numérique) et Thierry Pech (directeur de Terra Nova) "Et si Internet était le sauveur de la démocratie ?". Voir l'article...
25 avril 2015
Youth unemployment and job quality in times of crisis : a European overview
Par Céline Goffette, Josiane Vero, Training and Employment, n° 115, 2015, 4p. The economic crisis has hit young Europeans particularly hard. In the vast majority of countries, the rise in youth unemployment to unprecedented levels between 2006 and 2012 was accompanied by a deterioration in job quality. Thus unemployment and capability unfriendlyjobs evolved in conjunction with each other, such that no country experienced a decline in unemployment at the cost of a deterioration in job quality from a capability perspective.
9 avril 2015
Skill mismatch rise risk after the economic crisis
Speaking at a European Parliament Employment Committee workshop on the impact of the crisis on skills shortages, in Brussels on 23 March, Cedefop expert Konstantinos Pouliakas stressed that they have declined since the economic crisis and have remained below their pre-crisis levels. He warned, however, that, unless there is multiple action on several policy fronts, mainly on strengthening the link between education and employment, skills mismatches and shortages will increase as we exit the crisis. More...
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