By Scott Jaschik. Both ACT and the College Board announced Wednesday that they are lifting limits that have been in place on the number of ACT and SAT score reports that can be sent to colleges by low-income students who qualify for fee waivers. More...
By Colleen Flaherty. The American Association of University Professors on Thursday released a report on National Security, the Assault on Science, and Academic Freedom, detailing what the association describes as “troubling threats to academic freedom in the physical and natural sciences that have been exacerbated by the Trump administration’s hostility to science.” The report says that science has been increasingly politicized in the Trump era and questions, among other things, various Trump administration appointees to federal agencies founded in science, Congressional moves to curb research on climate and other topics, and President Trump’s various travel bans. More...
By Andrew Kreighbaum. Congressional lawmakers who are negotiating a final tax reform package will drop a provision to treat graduate students' tuition benefits as taxable income, according to a report from Bloomberg. More...
By Andrew Kreighbaum. Reports indicate congressional negotiators have dropped repeal of tax-exempt tuition waivers for graduate students and other provisions affecting higher ed from final tax-reform bill. More...
Le rapport annuel sur l’état de la fonction publique est destiné à partager le plus largement possible les données et les analyses sur les ressources humaines des trois versants de la fonction publique - emploi, recrutements et parcours professionnels, retraites, formation, rémunérations, conditions de travail et politique sociale -, qui permettent d’alimenter le dialogue social et de nourrir le débat public. Plus...
Mercredi 29 novembre 2017, le cours du bitcoin passait le seuil des 11 000 dollars, onze fois sa valeur de janvier. Au-delà de l’aspect spéculatif, cette envolée très médiatisée vient surtout affirmer la fiabilité d’une technologie informatique de certification des données sans intermédiaire : la blockchain ou « chaîne de blocs ». Plus...
The Council of Europe’s anti-money laundering and counter terrorist financing body (MONEYVAL) today published the third progress report of the Holy See/Vatican City State. The report evaluates the Holy See’s compliance with the recommendations made by MONEYVAL in its Mutual Evaluation Report in July 2012 and developments since the last progress report submitted in December 2015. More...
In a report on Spain published today, the Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) acknowledges a number of positive developments in police detention and prisons, but is highly critical of the continued resort to the measure of mechanical fixation of persons held in prisons and in centres for juvenile offenders. More...
The Council of Europe’s Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (GRETA) has published today its second evaluation report on Belgium. The report assesses developments since the publication of GRETA’s first evaluation report on Belgium in September 2013 as regards the implementation of the Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings. More...
In a report published today, MONEYVAL says that the Andorran authorities have acquired a reasonably comprehensive understanding of the money laundering and terrorism financing risks faced by the country. It however calls for a clear political oversight to be put in place in order to monitor the implementation of the action plans adopted to mitigate those risks. More...
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