By Marilyn Achiron. How school systems respond to immigration has an enormous impact on the economic and social well-being of all members of the communities they serve, whether they have an immigrant background or not. Immigrant Students at School: Easing the Journey towards Integration reveals some of the difficulties immigrant students encounter – and some of the contributions they offer – as they settle into their new communities and new schools. More...
By Susan Kenna. You are invited to sign a letter to be sent to the Prime Minister, from academics throughout Australia. It requests that the Australian government release all children who are being held at the Nauru Offshore Processing Centre and in detention in Australia be released with their families in time for the holiday season. The letter is at https://academicsforrefugees.wordpress.com. More...
Je suis chercheuse en sciences sociales. Je dirige le département de recherche et d’innovation de Fundació SURT – une fondation consacrée aux femmes dont le siège se trouve à Barcelone. Nous menons des projets à l’échelle européenne afin de mieux connaître la situation des femmes en Europe et de développer des méthodologies alternatives susceptibles de les aider à s’émanciper. Voir l'article...
Blog Educpros de Claude Lelièvre. Le nouveau « PISA à la loupe » (n°57) s’est focalisé sur les résultats des élèves immigrés à partir notamment des résultats au PISA 2013. Cette nouvelle étude tombe à pic en ces temps troublés pour redresser quelques idées reçues et ouvrir des perspectives. Voir l'article...
By Sara Custer. The International Organisation for Migration and the UK-based Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants launched the “i am a migrant” campaign on international migrants day, December 18. More...
How school systems respond to immigration has an enormous impact on the economic and social well-being of all members of the communities they serve, whether they have an immigrant background or not. Immigrant Students at School: Easing the Journey towards Integration reveals some of the difficulties immigrant students encounter – and some of the contributions they offer – as they settle into their new communities and new schools.
By Sara Custer. George Osborne, Chancellor of the Exchequer, has given the first hint that the UK government will take non-EU overseas students out of net migration figures, a battleground issue among education stakeholders, business owners and the UK’s Home Office. More...
Par Christine Barret-Labre. A l'heure où le Conseil économique, social et environnemental (Cese) rend ses préconisations sur les migrations internationales, l'étude du Réseau européen des migrations (Rem) intitulée "Déterminer les pénuries de main d'oeuvre et les besoins de la migration économique" prend un nouvel éclairage. Voir l'article...
This Global Monitoring Report is in partnership between the IMF and the World Bank, with contributions from OECD and multilateral development banks. The topic arose in the research department, partly because over the last 30 years we haven’t had a World Bank report on demography. Since then, demographic trends have changed dramatically. Global population used to grow a few decades ago at 2%, now it’s 1%, and by 2050 it will be 0.5%. The world population is ageing a record speeds, never seen before. Global working age population as a share of the total population has reached a maximum of 66% in 2012 and is now declining. And the total number of children around the world is stabilising at around 2 billion. More...
By Selina Chignall. Young immigrants are beating Canadian-born students in educational outcomes, says a report out Wednesday.
A study done by Statistics Canada found that of foreign-born immigrants aged 20 to 24 who had moved to Canada before age 15, 93 per cent had graduated from high school. Only 87 per cent of third- and higher-generation Canadians in the same age group had a high school diploma in 2011. More...
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