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16 août 2012

Scottish universities offer places to fee-paying foreigners only

http://bathknightblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/telegraph-logo.jpgBy Simon Johnson and . Scottish universities are offering places on hundreds of courses to fee-paying foreign and English students despite declaring themselves “closed” to school leavers from this country, the Daily Telegraph can disclose.
Many of the country’s most eminent universities, including Edinburgh and Dundee, are effectively operating “two-tier” clearing systems that favour applicants from outside the EU and the rest of the UK.

16 août 2012

German Universities 'Share Blame' for Problems

http://www.spiegel.de/static/sys/v9/spiegelonline_logo.pngBy David Gordon Smith. It has been 10 years since the controversial Bologna reforms began transforming higher education in Germany. Opinions differ as to whether its goals have been achieved, but editorialists argue that universities are partly to blame for overcrowded lecture halls and unhappy students.
The "Bologna reforms" of higher education were supposed to benefit students. But in Germany, at least, they have proven unpopular with many young people at universities.

16 août 2012

Foreign students favoured in 'two tier' university clearing

http://bathknightblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/telegraph-logo.jpgBy . Universities are still accepting applications from foreign students despite declaring they are closed to British candidates, it has emerged.
Just 24 hours before the publication of A-level results, it was disclosed that many institutions were effectively operating “two-tier” clearing systems, with more courses being made available for students applying from outside Britain and Europe.

15 août 2012

Agir pour l’égalité avec le soutien des fonds européens

http://direccte.gouv.fr/local/cache-vignettes/L202xH174/arton6856-a3b56.jpgLa prise en compte de l’égalité femmes-hommes compte parmi les 7 priorités transversales de la programmation des fonds européens 2007-2013.
L’action communautaire représente un levier important en matière d’égalité entre les femmes et les hommes en Ile-de-France.
Télécharger le document: Agir pour l’égalité entre les femmes et les hommes en Ile-de-France.

Ce document expose 11 projets franciliens co-financés par le FSE, le FEDER et le FEADER à travers 3 objectifs prioritaires:
    * l’indépendance économique;
    * l’égalité de rémunération;
    * l’égalité dans la prise de décision et l’entrepreneuriat.
Agir pour l’égalité entre les femmes et les hommes en Ile-de-France
L’intégration du principe d’égalité entre les femmes et les hommes dans notre vie quotidienne et professionnelle est une préoccupation permanente et un enjeu majeur pour le développement de notre société. Si d’indéniables progrès ont progressivement vu le jour, il n’en demeure pas moins que les inégalités entre les femmes et les hommes persistent encore.
La prise en compte de l’égalité entre les femmes et les hommes dans la programmation des fonds européens, comme priorité fondamentale et transversale de la politique régionale de cohésion en matière d’emploi, de développement agricole et de compétitivité régionale constitue un levier de mise en oeuvre du changement dans ce domaine.
A mi parcours de la programmation pour la période 2007-2013, j’ai donc souhaité recenser dans cette brochure quelques projets emblématiques cofinancés par les fonds européens sur le territoire francilien afin d’illustrer les efforts engagés par les bénéficiaires de subvention FEDER, FEADER ou FSE dans cette démarche vers l’égalité femmes/hommes. Je suis persuadé que ces projets pourront inspirer d’autres acteurs/actrices et porteurs/porteuses de projets dans le montage et la conduite de leurs actions afin de faire de l’égalité femmes/hommes un véritable atout et levier à tous les niveaux d’intervention. Que toutes celles et ceux qui s’y emploient en soient remerciés. Daniel Canepa, Préfet de la Région d’Ile-de-France, Préfet de Paris.
I-L’égalité femmes - hommes en Ile-de-France

des avancées mais aussi des inégalités persistantes La stratégie européenne de Lisbonne avait fixé pour objectif un taux d’emploi des femmes de 60% que l’Ile-de-France a atteint. Le taux d’emploi et le taux d’activité des franciliennes atteignent respectivement 63,2% (15-64 ans) et 79,5% (25-64 ans), en 2008. Par ailleurs, avec plus de 2 enfants par femme, la région cumule à la fois un taux d’activité des femmes et un taux de fécondité très élevé, ce qui en fait une spécificité en Europe.
Les avancées en matière d’égalité entre les femmes et les hommes dans le domaine économique et professionnel sont indéniables et encourageantes: les femmes sont de plus en plus nombreuses à accéder au marché du travail, leur niveau de formation est de plus en plus élevé. Quelle que soit la filière de formation, les femmes obtiennent des résultats meilleurs que les hommes.
Cependant de nombreuses disparités existent encore entre les femmes et les hommes et la carrière professionnelle de celles-ci contraste avec leur niveau de formation. Les stéréotypes fondés sur le sexe constituent l’une des causes les plus solidement ancrées de ces inégalités.
Télécharger le document: Agir pour l’égalité entre les femmes et les hommes en Ile-de-France.

http://direccte.gouv.fr/local/cache-vignettes/L202xH174/arton6856-a3b56.jpg~~V Η ένταξη της ισότητας των φύλων είναι μία από τις επτά οριζόντιες προτεραιότητες για τον προγραμματισμό των κονδυλίων της ΕΕ την περίοδο 2007-2013.
Η κοινοτική δράση αποτελεί σημαντικό μοχλό για την ισότητα μεταξύ γυναικών και ανδρών στην περιφέρεια Ile-de-Γαλλία.
Κατεβάστε το έγγραφο: Αποφασίζοντας για την ισότητα μεταξύ γυναικών και ανδρών στην περιφέρεια Ile-de-Γαλλία.
Το παρόν έγγραφο παρουσιάζει 11 έργα που συγχρηματοδοτούνται από το ΕΚΤ στο Παρίσι, μέσω του ΕΤΠΑ και τρεις στόχους προτεραιότητας:
* Η οικονομική ανεξαρτησία?
* Ισότητα αμοιβών?
* Η ισότητα στη λήψη αποφάσεων και την επιχειρηματικότητα. Περισσότερα...

15 août 2012

London Metropolitan University to outsource most services to private firm

http://static.guim.co.uk/static/2101e686aef3eab4a910b0cbdddd9a8235c0d3f3/common/images/logos/the-guardian/news.gifBy . Contract valued at £74m includes handing over IT, library facilities, student counselling and careers advice.
A London university has drawn up an ambitious outsourcing programme in which a swath of services, from managing its estates to marketing and finance, will be carried out by a private firm.
London Metropolitan University, which has more than 16,000 undergraduate students, has produced a tendering document under which all services except teaching and the vice-chancellor's office will be outsourced. The contract is valued at £74m over five years, according to the Exaro News website.

14 août 2012

Studie offenbart Schummel-Kultur an deutschen Unis

http://www.epapercatalog.com/images/zeit-online-epaper.jpgSpicken, plagiieren, fälschen: Eine Studie erhebt erstmals Daten zum Schummeln im Studium. Danach täuschen vier von fünf Studenten. Fast nie fliegt der Schwindel auf.
Schummeln gehört an der Uni zum Alltag. Der Spickzettel unter der Sitzbank, die Hausarbeit aus dem Internet oder der Laborbericht, in dem die Messergebnisse ein klein wenig aussagekräftiger gemacht wurden, als es das Experiment hergibt – sie alle sind keine Einzelfälle an deutschen Universitäten. Das zeigt eine neue Studie, die erstmals empirische Daten zum Schummeln unter mehreren Tausend Studenten und Dozenten erhoben hat und vorab exklusiv ZEIT CAMPUS vorliegt.
Das Ergebnis: 79 Prozent aller Studenten haben innerhalb eines Semesters mindestens einmal geschummelt, knapp jeder fünfte hat mindestens ein Plagiat abgegeben. Erwischt wird kaum jemand: 94 Prozent der Plagiatoren bleiben unentdeckt, trotz der Aufregung über die Doktorarbeiten des früheren Verteidigungsministers Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg oder der Europapolitikerin Silvana Koch-Mehrin.
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Die Fairuse-Studie wurde von Soziologen der Universität Bielefeld und der Universität Würzburg im Auftrag des Bundesbildungsministeriums durchgeführt. Die Wissenschaftler fragten bewusst nicht nur nach Plagiaten, sondern auch nach anderen Verstößen gegen die Prüfungsordnung. "So wie in den Medien über studentischen Betrug diskutiert wird, sind die Naturwissenschaften fein raus", sagt Sebastian Sattler, Projektleiter der Studie. "Über das Fälschen und Erfinden von Messergebnissen redet niemand. Dabei betrifft es etwa ein Drittel aller Naturwissenschaftler und Mediziner." Zudem schreiben 37 Prozent aller befragten Studenten in Klausuren vom Nachbarn ab, bei den Medizinern sind es sogar zwei Drittel.
Zufriedene Studenten schummeln seltener als unzufriedene

Ein herausragendes Schummelfach gibt es laut der Fairuse-Studie allerdings nicht. Ob und auf welche Art geschummelt wird, hängt vor allem von der Art der Prüfung ab – und davon, wie die befragten Studenten mit ihrem Studium zurechtkommen. Zufriedene Studenten schummeln demnach seltener als unzufriedene. Zum Täuschen neigt dagegen eher, wer gestresst ist, starken Konkurrenzdruck empfindet oder mit Prüfungsangst kämpft. Das gilt für alle Arten des Schummelns und für alle Fächer. Und auch diejenigen, die sich mit ihrem Fach und dessen Methoden auskennen, sind ehrlicher.
Damit bestätigt die Studie, was Experten schon länger vermutet haben. "Im Bereich Prävention und Methodenlehre gibt es in Deutschland noch Verbesserungspotenzial, das muss sich durchs ganze Studium ziehen", sagte der Vorsitzende des Wissenschaftsrats, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Marquardt, schon vor Bekanntwerden der Ergebnisse ZEIT CAMPUS.
Studienleiter Sebastian Sattler sieht zudem die Dozenten in der Pflicht. Diese beschränken sich laut der Ergebnisse der Fairuse-Studie oft auf ein Minimum an Prävention. Nur ein kleiner Teil derjenigen, die an ihrer Universität Zugang zu einer Plagiatssoftware haben, nutzen diese auch. Und nicht mal jeder vierte befragte Hochschullehrer gibt Sätze aus Hausarbeiten stichprobenartig bei Google oder anderen Suchmaschinen ein.
Professoren in der Pflicht

Zwar sagten fast alle, sie achteten bei Klausuren darauf, dass ihre Studenten weit auseinander säßen und keine Smartphones dabei hätten. Aber nur eine Minderheit verteilt unterschiedliche Klausurversionen, in denen die Fragen anders sortiert sind, um das Abschauen zu erschweren. Das liegt neben dem Zeitmangel der Dozenten laut Sattler auch daran, dass viele einen Generalverdacht ihren Studenten gegenüber vermeiden wollen, um das Lehrklima zu schonen.
Der Soziologe warnt davor, das Schummeln an deutschen Universitäten kleinzureden, auch wenn ein hastiger Blick auf die Klausur des Nachbars eine andere Qualität habe, als ein wochenlang ausgetüfteltes Plagiat. "Es wird viel Geld in die Bildung investiert – wenn Leute betrügen, ist das eine Fehlinvestition", sagt  Sattler. "Zudem sollen an der Uni nicht nur Stoffe, sondern auch Werte vermittelt werden. Nicht zufällig gibt es in vielen Berufen Probleme mit Korruption, Diebstahl am Arbeitsplatz oder unzuverlässiger Zeitabrechnung. Das verursacht einen volkswirtschaftlichen Schaden. Und irgendwo fängt die Bereitschaft zu betrügen an."
Zwischen 2009 und 2012 haben Sattler und seine Kollegen in mehreren Erhebungswellen zwischen 2.000 und 6.000 Studenten sowie rund 1.400 Dozenten anonym befragt. Ihre wichtigsten Ergebnisse werden in der neuen Ausgabe von ZEIT CAMPUS abgedruckt, eine vollständige Publikation der Studie ist für September 2012 geplant.
12 août 2012

Italy - Students threaten protests over fee hikes for late finishers

http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UWN.jpgByLee Adendorff. Student groups are threatening protest action after the Italian parliament backed a law on 7 August that gives universities the power to raise the fees of students who are taking too long to complete their studies.
Students unions have called the law an outrage, and have accused the government of using fee increases to cover public funding shortfalls. The family income-tested fee increases will apply to nearly one in three Italian students, who fall into the large group of fuoricorso – students who fail to complete their studies within a given time limit. Union of University Students coordinator Michele Orezzi said: “Once again the public university is being violated…It is a grave attack on students that we will not let go by. We are ready for action, ready for an explosive autumn. We are ready for anything to defend our rights.”

12 août 2012

Government to send graduates abroad

 

http://surgar.net/english/modules/admin/advertisement/home/2011/ADV125.gifBy Wais Wafa. By 2013, the Russian government could be paying tuition for the country’s best and brightest at foreign universities. By Sept. 1, Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to sign a decree establishing the Global Education program, which would allow qualified Russian students to study abroad at the government’s expense.
The program was first announced by then-President Dmitry Medvedev at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in 2010, but its implementation was delayed. According to some sources in the Kremlin, the main obstacle was former Education Minister Andrei Fursenko, who believed that the huge amount of money that the state planned to spend sending students abroad would be better spent on Russia’s universities. The rectors of the universities themselves were of much the same opinion.
In 2011, the initiative was taken up by Russia’s Agency for Strategic Initiatives (ASI), which further developed the program and named it Global Education. The program was approved at an Oct. 21, 2011 meeting of the ASI's Supervisory Committee, which is headed by Putin.
The program is essentially a very simple one.  Anyone who would like a state-funded education in a foreign university can submit an application. However, students must already hold a bachelor’s degree and must have on their own applied and been accepted for graduate study at a foreign school.
One of the major points of contention in the development of the program was how to ensure that students who took part in the program would return to Russia. Under the ASI program, until the students return to Russia, the money provided for their studies will be essentially a loan. If a participant returns to Russia and works for three years, the loan will be written off in full. If, however, the participant does not return or does not work in Russia for the agreed period, then he or she will have to repay the loan or a part of the loan with interest.
The funds for the implementation of the program have already been set aside in the draft 2013 budget. The program's authors have calculated that around 5 billion rubles (around $154 million) will be needed to fund the program over the next three years: 500 million rubles (around $15.5 million) in 2012, 1.5 billion rubles (around $46 million) in 2013, 2 billion rubles (around $61 million) in 2014 and 1 billion rubles (around $31 million) in 2015. In that time, the program will have funded the studies of around 3,000 people: 250 in 2012, 900 in 2013, 1,200 in 2014 and 650 in 2015.
However, it seems unlikely that the program will begin in 2012. The decree will likely only be signed on Sept. 1 and recruiting the students will take some time.
The question of who will manage the program, including evaluating the applications and allocating the money, is another issue altogether. According to a source close to the government, the program manager is likely to be one of Russia's three leading economic academic institutions:  the Higher School of Economics - National Research University; the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration or the New Economic School.
ASI has identifies a number of different priority areas for the project.  The agency believes that Russia is suffering an acute shortage of personnel who can work in management in higher education, state and municipal directorates, hi-tech companies (both in the state and public sectors) and social institutions, so students studying these fields will be more likely to get grants.
A source close to the government added that students from regional universities may have an advantage in the hope that professors who return to regional universities having studied abroad will have a progressive influence on their own universities and improve Russia's system of higher education.

12 août 2012

Diploma acceptance boosts career hopes in Kosovo, Serbia

http://www.setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/graphics/v3/header/setimes.jpgBy Safet Kabashaj for Southeast European Times in Pristina. An agreement reached between the governments of Kosovo and Serbia allows university diplomas certified by the European University Association to be recognised by employers in both countries, expanding the market for graduates and job-seekers.
The agreement, made in July 2011, came after EU-facilitated dialogue on the mutual recognition of degrees issued by their universities. The first 74 diplomas were awarded to Kosovo students on July 19th, after they were certified by the association following a review by a panel of experts who affirmed the quality of the students' education.
The arrangement is welcomed in places such as Presevo Valley, in southern Serbia, where many Albanian students study in Pristina but had found their degrees ignored in their own country.
"Imagine how one feels having in your hand a university degree, but being unable to put it to use in the country one lives in," said Amir Rexhepi, a medical student who finished his studies in Pristina last year. His degree was one of those affirmed last month. "Whenever I tried to register at the employment bureau, they offered me to register only as a high school graduate."
Samuel Zbogar, chief of Kosovo EU office, said the agreement is a solution for students in both countries who have been blocked from job markets. Current unemployment figures for Serbia are 28 percent and 45 percent for Kosovo.
Officials also hope that the agreement will lead to similar educational standards in the region.
"The [European University Association] agreed to assist in the certification process as it is to the benefit of universities and their students in the region, and fully in line with EUA mission and mandate in promoting a coherent European higher education and research," Lesley Wilson, association secretary general, said.
Nazmi Mehmeti, also a medical school graduate from Presevo Valley, is optimistic that he'll find a job in Serbia now that his degree is recognised.
"There's hope that the diploma agreement implementation will not be received with hostilities from Serbia, because we are exhausted with the fight over basic human rights," Mehmeti told SETimes.
12 août 2012

Will Britain’s “missing students” become expats?

http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSUeZf32x7yi2R_RQGFnZACeIwSvHCAocyp0w3MOT3c0VEFkzRsBy Sophie Pitman. Whilst my university experience in New York has been as the odd one out, as the only Brit in the student body, it looks likely that many younger UK citizens would like to follow in my footsteps and move abroad for study. Yesterday’s news focused on the “clear drop” in the number of English students applying for university places this autumn – over 15,000 students are regarded as ‘missing,’ having failed to seek a place to study for a degree this year. Over the next few weeks, even as the Olympics and upcoming Paralympics dominate the news, the British press will be filled with stories of celebration and heartache as A level students receive their grades. So are these ‘missing’ students going to miss out on university altogether, or will they be setting themselves up for a move abroad, perhaps joining me in the US to study for a degree?
Will Lady Liberty be welcoming more British students to New York?

Since I began my undergraduate studies, as one of the first students to pay top-up fees, prospects for graduates have plummeted as costs have soared. Whilst my debt on leaving was an overwhelming £20,000, this year’s incoming freshers can look forward to bills of three times my total at around £60,000. Despite the mounting costs, for those who are prepared to pay the price, there is still no guarantee of a place to study. Each year, approximately 200,000 applicants are unable to secure a spot in a British university, due to over-subscription. So it is no surprise that around three-quarters of students would consider leaving the UK and attending a university abroad.
According to research
by the UK’s largest student website, The Student Room, 78 per cent of British students (the majority aged between 16 and 20 years) would like to study overseas, although 56 per cent of those questioned did not know how to do so. North America tops the list of desired locations for study, despite being regarded as the most expensive place to do so, thanks to a lack of language barrier, and perceived better job prospects. Interestingly, a survey of current undergraduates demonstrated that women were more adventurous than men, with nearly 82 per cent of women saying they would consider postgraduate courses abroad, as opposed to just 67 per cent of men.
When I think back to my own undergraduate applications, the possibility of studying abroad never even crossed my mind. I barely knew anybody who had even been to a British university, let alone to one elsewhere, and none of my friends were applying to places outside of the Isles. I put in an application to a Scottish university, but the prospect of moving that far away from home in East Anglia seemed daunting enough. If you had told me then that I would, in just a few years time, be moving to America for three years of graduate study, I am not sure I would have believed it. But perhaps, had I been born just a few years later, my friends and I would be thinking far further afield than St Andrews. The Student Room’s research suggests that it has become the norm for British teens to aspire to become international students.
So does this data suggest a brain drain? Are Britain’s bright young things acting on their desires and actually going elsewhere for their studies? Last year, according to the Fulbright Commission, more than 4,000 British students began their undergraduate studies in America, and over 2,500 UK students chose the US for postgraduate courses. In the next few weeks, as newspaper pages fill with photos and stories of exam results and future hopes, I will be looking out for students who might be joining me in North America. Perhaps I will no longer be the odd-Brit-out at my university in New York.
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