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19 avril 2016

Equal Promises, Unequal Experiences

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Equal Promises, Unequal Experiences
Carl Straumsheim, Inside Higher Ed, 2016/04/15
Students from an online Master's degree course are suing because "the program doesn’t live up to its promise of being designed for an online setting and not a physical classroom." It's a textbook case of how not to deliver online instruction. More...

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16 avril 2016

Finance, Growth and Inequality

By Boris Cournède and Oliver Denk. Finance is the lifeblood of modern economies, but too much of the wrong type of finance can hamper economic prosperity and social cohesion. We have taken a holistic approach to study the consequences of finance for the inclusiveness of growth, in the spirit of the OECD initiative New Approaches to Economic Challenges. More...

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15 avril 2016

Does monetary policy increase income and wealth inequality?

Posted by oecdecoscope. As asset prices have risen in recent years, so have concerns that monetary policy, and quantitative easing in particular, has increased inequality. Concern has moved from being the preserve of central bankers and the pages of the financial media to entering popular discourse with calls for “People’s QE” in the United Kingdom. More...

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15 avril 2016

Europe’s top 1%: Who they are and how you get in

Posted by oecdecoscope. Extreme inequality at the top of the earnings scale has been high and rising in countries around the globe. But who are the select few with the highest labour incomes? And what determines who they are?
That’s the theme of my new working paper on Europe’s 1%, which for the first time puts hard numbers on who the top earners are across 18 European countries. More...

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14 avril 2016

For-Profit Higher Education Providers Earn Big Profits but Pay Low Employee Benefits

By Paul Kniest. On 11 April 2016, the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) released its report on the financial performance of Australia’s higher education sector called Key financial metrics on Australia’s higher education sector. Selected Insights April 2016. More...

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14 avril 2016

Uni staff supporting asylum seekers (Advocate 23 01)

By Jeannie Rea. Many university staff and students are enthusiastic participants and leaders in actions for asylum seekers and refugees organising through union and solidarity groups, as well as on campus. For example, staff at the University of Sydney organised an open letter to the Australian public which called upon the public to join them in condemning the conditions at the on and off shore mandatory detention centres. More...

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13 avril 2016

New national outreach programme for students from disadvantaged backgrounds

A new four-year outreach programme will help meet the Prime Minister’s challenging goal to double the participation of students from disadvantaged backgrounds entering higher education by 2020. More...

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5 avril 2016

L’éducation pour s’enrichir… aussi en éducation

Par Denys Lamontagne. Voici une donnée intéressante de l’OCDE qui s’appuie sur les données de plus de 10 millions de travailleurs : peu importe le pays, les 1 % des personnes les plus riches ont très majoritairement (65%) complété des études supérieures. Voir l'article...

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3 avril 2016

Improving academic outcomes for disadvantaged students: scaling up individualized tutorials

By Roseanna Ander, Jonathan Guryan and Jens Ludwig. Improving the educational outcomes of economically disadvantaged children is a policy priority in the United States, and yet relatively little progress has been made in recent decades. More...

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3 avril 2016

Inequality undermines the value of education for the poor

By Melissa S. Kearney and Phillip Levine. High school dropout rates are higher in cities and states with greater income inequality. This does not just reflect the different demographics across places. More...

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