By Michael Newman. These are my instructions for how to read a certain way: a guide to reading as a means of gaining knowledge you intend to use in something you are going to discuss or write. Of course there are lots of ways to read. More...
By Nona Robinson. Understanding their position is one way to start problem-solving on controversial issues. More...
By Jessica Riddell. When I was in graduate school, I used to joke that if academia didn’t work out, I’d become a party planner. My flippant remark elicited the expected response – laughter – largely due to the ostensible incongruity between the weighty, cerebral world of academia in contrast with the ephemeral, and seemingly superficial, pursuits of the party. More...
By Moira Farr. Many survivors believed their confidential statements would be destroyed, not archived for posterity. More...
By Francesca Borgonovi. A sense of self-efficacy is essential if students are to fulfil their potential. Yet too many students, particularly disadvantaged students, do not have confidence in their ability to tackle mathematics tasks. This month's
PISA in Focus reveals that mathematics self-efficacy is strongly associated with mathematics performance, and that disadvantaged students are less likely to feel confident about their ability to tackle specific mathematics tasks than advantaged students, even when comparing students who perform similarly in mathematics. Read more...
By Bill Below. Are policy makers stuck in time? That may explain why incremental issues that cumulate and creep slowly across the temporal dimension pose such huge challenges. Politicians are clearly more comfortable in the here and now. Harder to deal with are slow-moving emergencies such as climate change, growing inequality and state pension reform, to name but a few. More...
By Gillian Tett. The Silo Effect first sprung to life during the Great Financial Crisis of 2008. But it is not a book about finance. Far from it. Instead, it asks a basic question: Why do humans working in modern institutions collectively act in ways that sometimes seem stupid? Why do normally clever people fail to see risks and opportunities that are subsequently blindingly obvious? Why, as Daniel Kahneman, the psychologist, put it, are we sometimes so “blind to our own blindness”. More...
L’interdiction de travailler infligée par la politique allemande aux personnes sans statut de séjour sûr et la reconnaissance rendue difficile de diplômes et de formations empêche ces personnes de mettre à profit leurs capacités et leurs qualifications professionnelles en Allemagne pour mener une vie autonome qui n’est rendue possible que par le travail salarié. Voir l'article...
« Non habemus hic manentem civitatem ». Ces mots célèbres que l’on trouve dans la Lettre aux Hébreux ont sans doute inspiré les politiques universitaires des dernières années. Les ministres qui se sont succédé ont dû considérer que le sort de l’université était scellé, qu’aucun gouvernement n’oserait plus défier le pouvoir de veto des syndicats des étudiants. “Non habemus hic manentem universitatem”, ‘notre université définitive ne se trouve pas sur cette terre’ est ainsi devenue leur credo, aussi inavouable que reconnaissable dans tous les décrets, arrêtés et lois qui ont pierre après pierre démonté l’édifice de l’université française. Le dernier rapport de la Stratégie nationale de l’enseignement supérieur propose de poursuivre avec une persévérance diabolique l’œuvre de “secondarisation” de l’université française. L’université aurait désormais pour principale mission de diplômer 60 % d’une classe d’âge. La ministre de l’éducation nationale, de l’enseignement supérieur et de la recherche le recommande au Président de la République, qui, venu inaugurer l’année universitaire à l’université Paris-Sud de Saclay, en a fait aussitôt l’objectif stratégique. Ite, missa est. Voir l'article...
In the context of their institutional mandate and the geographical scope of each agency, Cedefop and the European Training Foundation (ETF) continue their cooperation by fully exploiting possibilities for synergies between them, while respecting their mandates. More...
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