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14 septembre 2014

Kuali Goes For Profits

By Kenneth C. Green. Tenth anniversaries for technology companies are (or should be) big events – a real cause for celebration. A tenth anniversary, especially for tech firms that focus on the higher education market, means that you have survived major challenges: product development and launch, market acceptance, funding, personnel changes, product upgrades, multiple (and increasingly expensive) EDUCAUSE and other ed-tech conferences, and more. Read more...

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14 septembre 2014

OECD ‘Education at a Glance’ Report Published

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has released its annual Education at a Glance report, an almanac of indicators on such topics as educational attainment, employment rates by level of education, funding for educational systems, and student mobility across the 34 OECD member nations as well as for 10 additional countries. The dataset encompasses many wealthy nations that predominantly make up the OECD’s membership, in addition to countries with rapidly emerging economies, including Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. Read more...

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14 septembre 2014

Tugged in Two Directions

By Paul Fain. A surge in new competency-based degree programs has created challenges for the accreditors tasked with approving them. They must seek to ensure academic quality without quashing promising ideas, while also dealing with sluggish and sometimes confusing guidance from the federal government. That was the message from top officials of three regional accrediting agencies, who spoke to a group the Council on Adult and Experiential Learning (CAEL) brought together here. Read more...

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14 septembre 2014

Umbrella Group Backs Unbundling

By Paul Fain. In recent years the American Council on Education has experimented with issuing credit recommendations for online courses from non-college providers, sometimes sounding more like Silicon Valley than One Dupont -- the stodgy headquarters of the higher education lobby. Read more...

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14 septembre 2014

Humanities: Still Here

By Scott Jaschik. Maybe the sky didn't fall on the humanities after all. The new edition of "The Humanities Indicators," being released today by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, suggests much more stability in humanities departments between 2007-8 and 2012-13 than is widely assumed to be the case. Read more...

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14 septembre 2014

Measuring What?

By Scott Jaschik. The New York Times kicked off its higher education conference here Monday night by releasing what it called a "revolutionary college index" that ranks institutions that enroll students from low-income backgrounds. The rankings are derived from a formula based on the proportion of undergraduates who receive Pell Grants and the net price (what students actually pay as opposed to sticker price) paid by those with family incomes of $30,000 to $48,000. Read more...

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14 septembre 2014

The Pulse: The Future of 'Flipping'

By Doug Lederman. This month's edition of The Pulse podcast looks at what the future holds for efforts to use technology to "flip" the classroom. Read more...

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14 septembre 2014

Young Families and Student Debt

By Doug Lederman. Studies that show student loan debt increasing are a dime a dozen these days. But while a new report from the Federal Reserve Board reinforces the idea that more Americans are taking on more debt to finance their postsecondary education, it also suggests a slowing of that trend in the last three years. Read more...

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13 septembre 2014

Senior (Citizen) Student Debt Rising

By Michael Stratford. The number of Americans who are nearing or past retirement age and still have student loan debt has ballooned in recent years, as has the amount of money the government is seizing from their Social Security checks to recoup defaulted federal loans, Congressional researchers have found. More than 700,000 households headed by Americans 65 or older now carry student debt, according to a report released Wednesday by the U.S. Government Accountability Office. Read more...

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13 septembre 2014

Attributions du Ministre du travail, de l'emploi, de la formation professionnelle et du dialogue social

Publication du décret n° 2014-1032 du 11 septembre 2014 relatif aux attributions du ministre du travail, de l'emploi, de la formation professionnelle et du dialogue social

« Article 1 : Dans le titre, au premier alinéa de l'article 1er et au premier alinéa du I de l'article 2 du décret n° 2014-406 du 16 avril 2014 relatif aux attributions du ministre du travail, de l'emploi et du dialogue social, après les mots : « de l'emploi », sont insérés les mots : « , de la formation professionnelle ».
Article 2 : Au premier alinéa du IV de l'article 1er du décret n° 2014-401 du 16 avril 2014 relatif aux attributions du ministre de l'écologie, du développement durable et de l'énergie, après les mots : « de l'emploi », sont insérés les mots : « , de la formation professionnelle ».
Article 3 : Au IV de l'article 2 du décret n° 2014-403 du 16 avril 2014 relatif aux attributions du ministre des finances et des comptes publics, après les mots : « de l'emploi », sont insérés les mots : « , de la formation professionnelle ».
Article 4 : Au deuxième alinéa de l'article 3 du décret n° 2014-408 du 16 avril 2014 relatif aux attributions du ministre de l'intérieur, après les mots : « de l'emploi », sont insérés les mots : « , de la formation professionnelle ».
Article 5 : Au premier alinéa du II de l'article 2 du décret n° 2014-409 du 16 avril 2014 relatif aux attributions du ministre des droits des femmes, de la ville, de la jeunesse et des sports, après les mots : « de l'emploi », sont insérés les mots : « , de la formation professionnelle »…

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