Formation Continue du Supérieur

19 décembre 2013

UK door ‘open to all’ migrants, not just brightest and best

By David Matthews. As long as applicants fulfil language, qualifications and maintenance criteria, ‘they are welcome’, says BIS spokeswoman.
Overseas students do not need to be the “brightest and best” to study in the UK, a government official has said, despite Home Office rhetoric on the issue. The phrase has been used repeatedly by ministers in relation to international students. While defending government policy on overseas students in June, Mark Harper, the immigration minister, said that the UK was “open for business” to the “brightest and best” migrants. More...

Posté par pcassuto à 01:14 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Partager cet article

Vous aimez ?

0 vote

6 décembre 2013

UK must remove students from Net Migration Target

Lord Paul said the current immigration system has affected UK's higher education market, with competition emerging from countries like India and China.
Leading NRI industrialist and educationist Lord Swraj Paul has said that Britain must remove students from the Net Migration Target as the current immigration system has affected UK's higher education market, with competition emerging from countries like India and China. More...

Posté par pcassuto à 22:59 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Partager cet article

Vous aimez ?

0 vote

30 novembre 2013

Students make China the top source of migrants coming to Britain: 40,000 arrive from country in the past year

By Steve Doughty. China has become the country that sends the greatest number of migrants to Britain, yesterday’s migration figures revealed.
But the Office for National Statistics said most Chinese coming to Britain are students and leave when their courses finish.
Figures from the International Passenger Survey, taken among people passing through ports and airports, revealed that 40,000 immigrants from China arrived in the 12 months to June. Read more...

Posté par pcassuto à 15:56 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Partager cet article

Vous aimez ?

0 vote

14 novembre 2013

Profs mit Migrationshintergrund: Wir sind "Deutsche plus"

Von Tina Bauer. Sie bringen internationale Kontakte mit, sprechen mehrere Sprachen und denken global: Doch die Unis nutzen zu selten das Potential von Professoren mit Migrationshintergrund, wie das Hochschulmagazin "duz" analysiert. Erstmals zeigt eine Studie jetzt, wie ihre Karrieren verlaufen.
Sie ist in der Türkei geboren und hat dort studiert. Promoviert hat sie in Kanada, geforscht und gelehrt in Irland. Jetzt ist Dr. Gökçe Yurdakul Professorin in Berlin. "Ich bin kosmopolitisch", sagt sie. In der Hochschulstatistik ist sie als Deutsche erfasst, Yurdakul hat die deutsche Staatsbürgerschaft. Mehr...

Posté par pcassuto à 23:45 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Partager cet article

Vous aimez ?

0 vote

7 septembre 2013

Should universities accept 'illegal' immigrants?

Notre Dame University has announced that it will start admitting undocumented immigrants and will provide them with financial aid, to strengthen the student body. Should other universities follow suit? More...

Posté par pcassuto à 19:01 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: Université

Partager cet article

Vous aimez ?

0 vote

1 septembre 2013

Net migration rise sparks fears of new clampdown

By John Morgan. Visa applications from overseas students seeking to study at universities are up 4 per cent despite the government’s toughening of the visa regime. However, today’s quarterly migration figures – from the Office for National Statistics – also show a rise in net migration thanks to a fall in the number of people emigrating from the UK. That may prompt the government to further tighten the rules for overseas students in a bid to meet its target of reducing net migration to the “tens of thousands” by 2015. The figures suggest that the further education and schools sectors, rather than higher education, have borne the brunt of the government’s visa crackdown. More...

Posté par pcassuto à 09:53 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: visa

Partager cet article

Vous aimez ?

0 vote

19 août 2013

Making the most of immigrant skills in Europe

http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UWN.jpg

By Peta Lee. Modifications to existing systems in Europe are vital to removing barriers and improving the recognition of immigrants’ foreign qualifications, according to a European Union-funded report titled Tackling Brain Waste. The document, compiled by Madeleine Sumption for the Migration Policy Institute’s project Immigration, Skills, and Mobility in the Transatlantic Labor Market, concluded that more detailed evidence on the costs and benefits of possible interventions was needed if policy decisions were to be directed more effectively. The report pointed out, for example, that little was known about how employers valued formal assessments of qualifications equivalence (or if they were even aware of the various types of policy designed to facilitate recognition internationally), and many of the programmes to support retraining had never been evaluated. More...

Posté par pcassuto à 02:24 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: Europe

Partager cet article

Vous aimez ?

0 vote

28 juillet 2013

Apéro, grève, capote… La France expliquée aux étudiants étrangers

ParBenoît Floc'h. Bizarrement, les mots les plus connus des étudiants étrangers qui choisissent la France ne figurent pas dans l'abécédaire que vient de sortir CampusFrance. Le petit guide de l'agence publique chargée de promouvoir l'enseignement supérieur français ne contient, en effet, ni le mot « circulaire » ni le mot « Guéant »...
« Cette circulaire a été abrogée, comme le ministre d'ailleurs... », plaisante-t-on à CampusFrance. Expulsée, donc, la « circulaire Guéant ». Mais l'« Abécédaire de la vie quotidienne et étudiante en France » contient bien d'autres mots. Pour la première fois, en effet, CampusFrance donne aux étudiants étrangers qui s'installent en France la définition - en français et en anglais - de ceux qu'ils entendront le plus souvent pendant leur séjour. Suite de l'article...

By Benoît Floc'h. Oddly, the most famous international students who choose France words do not appear in the alphabet that comes out CampusFrance. The small guide the public agency responsible for promoting French higher education. More...

Posté par pcassuto à 17:11 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Tags: France

Partager cet article

Vous aimez ?

0 vote

28 juillet 2013

Bill would make it easier for STEM grads, PhDs to get green cards

By Kristen Domonell. DREAM Act provision would create an expedited 5-year pathway to citizenship for those who attend a U.S. university or who serve in the military. The Senate-approved approach to immigration reform could improve the country’s competitiveness by allowing green cards for STEM master’s graduates, and it would also create a pathway to citizenship for students brought to this country illegally as children. Read more...

Posté par pcassuto à 11:41 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Partager cet article

Vous aimez ?

0 vote

28 juillet 2013

Sending the foreigners home

The sacking of foreign civil servants may become a regional trend. AMID unrest in the Gulf, the authorities in Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), have in recent years sought to give more public-sector jobs to local citizens. But this drive towards “Emiratisation”, a policy launched three decades ago, may be accelerating. On July 4th the General Secretariat of the Executive Council (GSEC), Abu Dhabi’s top policy-making body, which reports to the ruling council under Muhammad bin Zayed al-Nahyan, the crown prince, fired almost all its foreign staff. Some 60-70 people are thought to have got the chop, including many of the emirate’s most efficient senior civil servants. The GSEC is presumably confident it can fill the vacuum with Emiratis already on its staff. But foreigners working for the government will be twitchy, as Emiratisation speeds up. Read more...

Posté par pcassuto à 10:07 - Commentaires […] - Permalien [#]

Partager cet article

Vous aimez ?

0 vote