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Blog Educpros de Gilbert Azoulay. L’ESSCA Ecole de management vient tout juste de conclure la 3ème édition du DIGIPRIZE. Une occasion de récompenser tous les jeunes entrepreneurs qui innovent ou ont choisi de lancer leur start-up dans l’univers numérique. Suite...
Réforme du droit du travail : l'essentiel est-il là ?
La poésie insoupçonnée du code
Par Alexandre Roberge. Le code informatique est, au niveau de l'histoire humaine, un des plus récents langages ayant déjà ses déclinaisons, simples ou plus complexes à maîtriser. Toutefois, il est surtout reconnu pour son côté pratique, avec une fonction que tout le monde reconnaît : un logiciel roule sans anicroche et répond aux besoins de l'utilisateur. Voir l'article...
Wie Aufschieberitis Studenten erfolgreich macht
Vertrödelt von Matthias Kaufmann. Hier sollte eigentlich ein ausführlicher Artikel über die "Lange Nacht der aufgeschobenen Hausarbeiten" stehen. Leider ist der Autor nicht rechtzeitig fertig geworden. Mehr...
House-Buying Power of Academic Salaries
By . A couple of weeks ago, the Times Higher Education put together a cute infographic showing how many square metres an academic salary bought in different parts of the world (the full article is here). I thought I would try the same thing for here in Canada. More...
False Charges of Austerity
By . A few weeks ago, Jamie Brownlee (who I believe is a graduate student at Carleton University) published a piece in Academic Matters (available here) in which he developed a two-part notion. First, he argued that universities had become “corporatized”, and second, he believes that governments played a big role in this by de-funding universities through austerity. More...
One In, One Out
By . I had a discussion a few months ago with a government official who was convinced she knew what was wrong with universities. “They have no discipline,” she said. More...
Learning from other sectors: using the right end of the telescope!
I was excited to see the new Hepi paper – Designing a Teaching Excellence Framework: Lessons from other sectors. It is a well-written piece on inspections of organisational performance in compulsory education and health care settings. More...
A full day of experiential learning in action
By . Software made available to the ChangSchoolTalks by the company E-180 enabled participants to book online a one-on-one face-to-face session with a personal mentor, i.e. with anyone attending the conference who had expertise that you would like to access. More...