By Stefanie Botelho. More than half of all college graduates (55 percent) say recent graduates will see a lower return on investment (ROI) from their education than college graduates 10 to 15 years ago, according to the 2015 College Degree Investment Survey conducted by Nielsen (formerly Harris Interactive) on behalf of Greenwood Hall Inc. More...
By Katie Morley. With graduate salaries in decline and tuition fees at a record high, it must be made easier for young people to choose a degree that offers good value, argues Katie Morley. Read more...
Par Sophie Béjean et Bertrand Monthubert. Notre pays doute de sa capacité à dessiner un avenir fidèle à son histoire et à ses valeurs. La crise est là, les efforts, nécessaires. Lesquels nous permettront-ils de progresser ? Au terme d’une mission confiée par la secrétaire d’Etat Geneviève Fioraso, nous proposons les contours d’une stratégie nationale de l’enseignement supérieur, pour dessiner des perspectives de sortie de crise. Il s’agit, pour reprendre la belle expression du prix Nobel d’économie Joseph Stiglitz, de créer la « société apprenante ». Nos propositions, qui n’engagent que nous, consistent pour l’essentiel à développer les qualifications pour s’adapter à l’évolution des métiers, à abolir les frontières entre formation initiale et continue. Voir l'article...
Von Bernd Kramer. Bis zu 48.000 Euro kostet ein Studium an der Privatuni Witten/Herdecke. Um das zu finanzieren, hatten Studenten eine Idee: Anleger investieren direkt in den akademischen Nachwuchs - allerdings mit sehr unsicheren Renditeaussichten. Mehr...
By Ioanna Opidee. Much of this talk concerns dollars and cents—namely, cost and payoff. As a result, 2015 may be a year in which many institutions do a gut-check of their own value propositions, as pressure to increase affordability—and return on investment—pervades all of higher education. College graduates’ debt and unemployment rates also will continue to garner close attention. More...
By Jamie Cassels. As the season for university applications in British Columbia approaches, there will be lively conversation around the holiday table. Where to go and what to study takes some thought. There are plenty of choices. But whether to pursue a post-secondary education shouldn’t be a question.
It has never been more important to pursue higher education, and it is a terrific time to be a student at any one of B.C.’s fine universities.
Just as universities are incubators for the human talent that our society needs in the years and decades ahead, so are they engines for ideas and innovation through their research mission. See more...
By William J. Lowe. There is no greater financial investment in one’s future than a college degree. While this viewpoint has its critics, the reality is the value of a degree has never been greater.
Despite public questions about a degree’s worth, the pay gap between college graduates and those without a degree reached a high in 2013. More...
‘Europe’s true problem is not one of a deficit of skills, but primarily a deficit of creation of good quality jobs,’ Cedefop Director James Calleja told the European Parliament of Enterprises on 16 October in Brussels.
In his statement on skills mismatch and youth unemployment, Mr Calleja said that most of Europe’s unemployment is cyclical, not structural in nature: ‘Cedefop studies (2012) indicate a rising tendency towards a higher “over-qualification” or “over-skilling” rate of the employee workforce (i.e. workers have skills that outweigh those needed to perform their job duties).’ More...
By Angel Gurría. International investment treaties are in the spotlight as articles in the Financial Times and The Economist last week show. An ad hoc investment arbitration tribunal recently awarded $50 billion to shareholders in Yukos. EU consultations on proposed investment provisions in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) with the United States generated a record 150,000 comments. There is intense public interest in treaty challenges to the regulation of tobacco marketing, nuclear power and health care. More...
By David Hofmeister - EvoLLLution. A conversation the other day with a financial planner about my plan to invest $24,000 with no guaranteed return raised her ire. She proceeded to raise mine when she asked why I would make such an investment. More...
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