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19 mai 2013

Google Play for Education Versus...

https://s3.amazonaws.com/hackedu/gargoyletechnotext.jpgBy Audrey Watters. Google held its annual developer conference this week, and during Wednesday’s keynote, the company touted its work in education, including the growing adoption of Google Apps for Education (some 25+ million users worldwide) and Chromebooks (engineering exec Chris Yerga highlighted its recent country-wide implementation in Malaysia). The new news: Google also unveiled plans for a new education-focused section of its Android app store, “Google Play for Education.” Read more...
19 mai 2013

Canada is right to focus on applied research

http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-prn2/277035_6533373917_717582727_q.jpgBy Robert Atkinson. Canada is in a global race for innovation advantage. Other nations have put in place an array of policies to support technology-based industries, including policies to support industrially relevant research.
It is in this context that Minister of State for Science and Technology Gary Goodyear announced this week the government’s decision to refocus the National Research Council, Canada’s main government funder of science, on research that is more directly relevant to industry in Canada.
The NRC was originally created in 1916 to support applied research, technology transfer and business development.
But after the Second World War, it followed the path laid down by the United States, focusing more on basic research and less on work that could be useful to industry. Read more...
19 mai 2013

Focus on education; no, really

http://media.winnipegfreepress.com/designimages/winnipegfreepress_WFP.gifEveryone knows, and everyone has known for a very long time, that education is the key to lifting aboriginal Canadians out of poverty and into good-paying jobs.
Everyone also knows, and they have known it for a very long time, that spending on aboriginal education has been inadequate, and still is. The country actually spends less on aboriginal education than it does on schooling for everyone else, which, as many people have said for a very long time, is a national disgrace.
And yet there was something important that emerged from a meeting of retired political leaders and Winnipeg's business elite who gathered here Thursday to discuss the province's future.
They agreed the provincial outlook is grim unless an overwhelming effort is made to redress aboriginal poverty and, in particular, the sub-standard education system on reserves. Read more...
18 mai 2013

HEC releases list of unrecognised universities

http://www.thenews.com.pk/images/h1_11.jpgIslamabad: The Higher Education Commission (HEC) has issued a list of private universities not recognised by HEC, warning students and their parents to ensure the status of the university or institute from the website of the commission before seeking admission.
The press statement issued by HEC says that it will not recognise any degree or certificates issued by these institutions. The list of the private universities or institutes, which have been granted charter by the respective authorities without fulfilling the cabinet criteria for the establishment of new university or degree awarding institute including no objections certificate (NOC) from Higher Education Commission is given below. Read more...
18 mai 2013

Colleges offer discounts, but you have to look

http://www.csmonitor.com/extension/csm_base/design/csm_design/images/csmlogo_179x46.gifBy Andrea Burzynski. Colleges offer discounts as enrollments fall short, according to Forbes report. Among the colleges still seeking students for the fall term: Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon, the University of Maryland, College Park, The New School in New York City, and Arizona State University in Tempe.
Many leading U.S. colleges and universities face a shortfall in enrollment for fall classes and will offer price discounts as they compete for students in an ever expanding higher education market, according to Forbes. The magazine highlighted 50 public and private U.S. colleges listed in the Princeton Review's "Best Colleges" list that are still accepting students in their 2013 freshman classes. Read more...

16 mai 2013

Au Québec, l’Université recrute selon les règles du privé

http://blog.educpros.fr/michelabherve/wp-content/themes/terrafirma_mabherve/terrafirma/images/a10.jpgBlog Educpros de Michel Abhervé. L’UQAM à Montréal recrute des professeurs et le simple lecture de l’annonce met en évidence combien nos pays sont différents. Dans le poste concernant la gestion des entreprises collectives (organisations à but non lucratif, coopératives, organisations non gouvernementales, etc.), nous notons deux particularités (pour nous).
D’abord quant au statut: alors que pour nous l’Université des fonctionnaires et des contractuels de droit public, au Québec il est mentionné que le traitement sera établi « selon la convention collective UQAM-SPUQ ». Suite de l'article...

Blag Educpros Michel Abhervé. L'UQAM à Montréal recrute des professeurs et le simple lecture de l'annonce met en évidence combien nos pays sont différents. UQAM i earcach Montreal múinteoirí agus díreach ag léamh an fógra béim ar conas a bhfuil ár dtíortha éagsúla. Sa an seasamh maidir le bainistiú na n SOEs (eagraíochtaí neamh-bhrabúis, comharchumainn, eagraíochtaí neamh-rialtasacha, etc.). Níos mó...

16 mai 2013

Education Woes Seen as Achilles' Heel of Brazil

http://a.abcnews.com/assets/images/v2/abcnews_logo_v2.png?v=1By JENNY BARCHFIELD. There's a storage room just off a university lab that gives students more experience than many can handle: Skinned pigs and cats, disembodied cow livers, intestines, brains and the other unidentifiable detritus of years' worth of dissections fill a dozen wading pool-sized vats to the brim.
With the veterinary department's incinerator long on the fritz, the stomach-turning, formaldehyde-drenched mass of animal carcasses and organs grows by the day.
Similar scenes of neglect and decay play out across the sprawling, once-stately campus. Laboratories routinely flood when it rains, lecture halls reach oven-like temperatures because the burned-out air conditioning units were never replaced, the Internet works only intermittently and students hardly dare venture out after dark for fear of being mugged. Read more...

16 mai 2013

Higher Education Shell Games

http://www.nationalreview.com/sites/all/themes/nro/img/logo.jpgBy  Reihan Salam. In a new report on the Pell Grant program, Stephen Burd of the New America Foundation’s Education Policy Program outlines how many U.S. colleges and universities design their policies to enroll as many affluent students as possible. Alex Holt of New America summarizes Burd’s findings: Burd uses data, many of which are available through our Federal Education Budget Project database, on Pell Grant enrollment and net price for the lowest-income students at thousands of individual colleges. The analysis shows that hundreds of public and private non-profit colleges expect the neediest students to pay an annual amount that is equal to or even more than their families’ entire yearly earnings. As a result, these students are left with little choice but to take on heavy debt loads or to behave in ways that are demonstrated to reduce the likelihood of earning their degrees, such as working full-time while enrolled or dropping out until they can afford to return. Only a few dozen exclusive colleges meet the full financial need of the lowest-income students they enroll. Nearly two-thirds of the private institutions analyzed charge students from the lowest-income families, those making $30,000 or less annually, a net price of over $15,000 a year. Read more...
15 mai 2013

The New Case for Liberal Arts

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/opinion/sectionfront/opinion-global-cobrand.pngAll through elementary school and junior high, whenever anyone asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up I always gave the same answer: a marine biologist. Until I got to biology class in high school and got turned off by my teacher — which does happen, even if we’d rather talk about teachers who inspire their students. By the time I applied to college an interest in government had displaced gills — or so I thought, listing political science as my intended major.
Four years later I graduated with a degree in philosophy and English — without having ever taken a single political science course. Perhaps that’s why I’ve got such a soft spot for the kind of flexibility and intellectual range that are the hallmarks of the American liberal arts college. Read more...
12 mai 2013

U.S.-Mexico education partnership announced

http://www.deseretnews.com/img/deseret-news-mast.pngBy . U.S. President Barack Obama and Mexico's president, Pena Nieto, have announced a partnership to expand economic opportunities for citizens of both countries and to develop a 21st-century work force for mutual economic prosperity, according to a May 2 statement from the U.S. State Department. Through a new Forum on Higher Education, Innovation, and Research, the U.S. and Mexican governments will encourage broader access to quality post-secondary education for traditionally under-served groups, especially in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields. They will also expand educational exchanges and share best practices in higher education and innovation, the statement said.
The forum's mission is to bring together government agency counterparts from Mexico and the U.S. to deepen cooperation on higher education, innovation and research. It will also draw on the expertise of the higher education communities in both countries, according to the State Department. More than 18,000 Mexican and U.S. university students study in each other’s countries annually. The Mexico-U.S. Commission for Educational and Cultural Exchange (COMEXUS) oversees the Fulbright-Garcia Robles Scholarship Program, the flagship program in U.S.-Mexico academic exchanges. Read more...
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