Des débuts de trajectoire durablement marqués par la crise?
Malgré la crise financière de fin 2008, le chômage des jeunes entrés sur le marché du travail en 2004 arrive, sept ans plus tard, fin 2011, à un niveau voisin de celui de leurs aînés entrés en 98. Pour autant, les non-diplômés auront dès le départ pâti de la mauvaise conjoncture et des statuts précaires. Les diplômés du secondaire semblent, eux, avoir été largement impactés par la crise. Les progressions de salaire ont aussi été freinées, notamment pour les diplômés de l’enseignement supérieur.
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Despite the financial crisis of late 2008, the youth unemployment entered the labor market in 2004 arrives, seven years later, in late 2011, a neighbor to that of their elders came into level in 98. More...
Deutsches Bildungssystem trotzt der Finanzkrise
Education: The best protection against an economic crisis
By Dirk Van Damme Head of the Innovation and Measuring Progress division, Directorate for Education and Skills. The insight that education is valuable both to individuals and to countries is not new. Using continuously improving data and statistical tools, we have come to understand and appreciate the magnitude of education’s impact on employment, income, health and life opportunities in general. From a purely economic point of view, private returns on investment are well beyond 10% per year, and public returns are only slightly below that figure. Fears that increasing participation and greater numbers of graduates – resulting in ever-increasing numbers of highly qualified people in the work force – would result in some kind of inflation, in diminishing returns and burgeoning graduate unemployment could not be confirmed by the data.
Education at a Glance 2013, the OECD’s reference on education indicators and statistics, for the first time provides a comprehensive set of data covering the years 2010 and 2011. The data convey a consistent, but also somewhat surprising picture. A great deal of the economic and social hardship caused by the crisis fell chiefly on less-educated individuals. The unemployment gap between well-educated young people and those who left school early widened during the crisis. On average across OECD countries, 5% of those with a tertiary education were unemployed, against 13% of those without an upper secondary education. Between 2008 and 2011 the unemployment rate for the latter group increased by 4%, while it rose by only 1.5% among the highly educated. The earnings gap widened as well: the average difference in earnings between highly educated and low-educated individuals grew from 75 percentage points to 90 percentage points between 2008 and 2011. Read more...
The scary reality of China’s debt crisis
“Keep in mind 8-9% is right on the edge of the market breaking down,” says Patrick Chovanec, chief strategist at Silvercrest Asset Management. Even as the overnight rate came down, he notes, the 14-day and 1-month rates spiked today. “It’s kind of like how in Beijing…[the pollution has] been off the charts for so long that when it goes back down to ‘hazardous’ we’re like, ‘Oh, it’s great.’”
That’s because the core problem isn’t simply a seize-up in liquidity. Rather, it’s that rolling over the piles of debt amassed over the last few years requires ever-increasing amounts of liqudity, and that’s becoming harder and harder to perpetuate. Read more...
"La crise actuelle de l'éducation est avant tout une crise intellectuelle"
Comment résoudre la crise de l'éducation ? Faut-il redéfinir le métier d'enseignant comme le préconise la Cour des comptes dans un récent rapport?
Je ne crois pas que la crise actuelle relève de mesures techniques, ou démographiques, ou de savoir s'il faut ou non conserver le collège unique... Il s'agit d'abord d'une crise intellectuelle: ces dernières années, on s'est beaucoup perdu dans les politiques éducatives et on ne sait plus très bien ce que signifie la transmission des connaissances. Le succès de l'enseignement sous la IIIe République est dû à Ferdinand Buisson qui a su définir les contours d'une éducation de la République. Le philosophe Denis Kambouchner dit que l'école est une question philosophique et il a raison, c'est de cela que l'on manque aujourd'hui. Il faut à cet effet revisiter le livre d'Emile Durkheim L'évolution pédagogique en France. Suite de l'article...
New EUA Public Funding Observatory report and online tool outline trends in higher education funding in Europe
EUA this week (10 June) releases the latest edition of its Public Funding Observatory report which monitors the impact of the economic crisis on universities and identifies trends in public funding to higher education institutions across Europe since 2008. The report is launched in tandem with a new interactive online tool which provides a range of data for 23 European systems and allows the user to look at developments in recent years in a customised way. Detailed country sheets with data for each system can also be downloaded.
EUA has warned that this situation is unsustainable both for the affected countries and Europe as a whole. Reduced investment weakens countries’ research capacities and knowledge base, and impacts negatively on the development of their knowledge economy.
In addition, such divergent trends decrease the potential for cross-border academic and scientific cooperation and put the completion of the European Higher Education and Research Areas at risk. It could also risk provoking a “brain drain” of talented researchers from these countries and could make it harder for universities in these countries to participate in European funding programmes which work under the principle of co-funding (i.e. the university must provide funding alongside the European funding for projects). European Funding schemes, like Horizon 2020, therefore need to take account of these trends and establish appropriate funding rules.
The latest report looks at both the evolution over the last year (2012-2013) and developments since 2008. Read more...
See also on the blog EUA monitors impact of economic crisis on European universities, 24 février 2009.
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Open call for papers for GUIDE - Can online education contribute to overcome the crisis?
“The Global Economic Crisis and its consequences on the national educational systems: Can online education contribute to overcome the crisis?”. This is the main question that the VI International GUIDE Conference 2013, to be held in Athens (Greece) on October 3-4, 2013, will try to answer.
Abstract submission through the Call for Papers form by May 31.
Organized under the patronage of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport of Greece, the event will provide a comparative analysis of the effects of governmental policies on new training and research strategies in response to the economic crisis. In particular, the Conference will highlight the role of digital technologies in providing cost-effective equal learning opportunities, while maintaining a high quality university education. Read more...
Le luxe ne connait pas la crise mais peine à recruter
Un secteur qui résiste à la crise
Le luxe ne connaît pas la crise: près de 700 emplois créés en 2012 et près de 2 000 depuis 2009. La France reste le pays phare du luxe, les marques françaises sont très prisées auprès de la clientèle étrangère: la qualité des produits, l'authenticité, le savoir-faire français, la tradition familiale, l'histoire, la créativité en font leurs meilleurs atouts.
Le luxe est un des domaines industriels dans lequel la France dispose d’entreprises leaders dans le monde.
Dans ce cadre, Pôle emploi se mobilise pour identifier les demandeurs d’emploi disposant des aptitudes et un parcours de formation est défini au sein de l’entreprise ou avec un organisme extérieur.
Pour en savoir plus: World luxury tracking.
Réimse amháin go chomhracfaidh an ghéarchéim
LFhios Só aon ghéarchéim beagnach 700 post i 2012 agus beagnach 2,000 ó 2009. An Fhrainc fós tá an príomhthionscadal só tír brandaí Fraince an-tóir ag custaiméirí coigríche. Níos mó...