‘Quality’ Time
By Ben Yagoda. Strolling about London on a recent vacation, I was gobsmacked to come upon this: The reason for my surprise was that, on my mother’s knee, I was taught that quality should not be used as an adjective but exclusively as a noun referring to a feature or characteristic of a person or thing.I haven’t been on my mother’s knee for a long time, but the injunction is still widespread. Bryan Garner’s entry on the word in Garner’s Modern American Usage reads, in its entirety: “When used as an adjective meaning ‘of high quality,’ this is a vogue word and a casualism <a quality bottling company>. More...
STEM Graduates Likelier to Have Jobs, but Most Don’t Work in STEM Fields
By Andy Thomason. New census data show that college graduates with degrees in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics—the STEM fields—are more likely than other graduates to have jobs. But almost 75 percent of them don’t actually work in those fields, according to the data. More...
In a MOOC Mystery, a Course Suddenly Vanishes
By Steve Kolowich. A massive open online course on making sense of massive open online courses caused massive confusion when the course content was suddenly deleted and the professor started writing cryptic things on Twitter. The MOOC, called “Teaching Goes Massive: New Skills Required,” was taught by Paul-Olivier Dehaye, a lecturer at the University of Zurich. Offered through Coursera, the course had been conceived of as a meta-MOOC designed to help disoriented educators find their feet in the online landscape. Read more...
U. of Zurich Says Professor Deleted MOOC to Raise Student Engagement
By Steve Kolowich. The University of Zurich says it has cleared up the bizarre case of the MOOC that went missing. But the university is offering few clarifying details to the public, which has been left to piece together theories from the university’s statements and from cryptic tweets by the course’s professor about an unspecified experiment he might have been trying to conduct. Read more...
Can MOOCs Help Professors Teach Traditional Courses More Efficiently?
By Steve Kolowich. Using free online materials such as massive open online courses in traditional classes can help colleges teach more efficiently without harming students, according to a long-awaited report from Ithaka S+R, an education-technology nonprofit group, and the University System of Maryland. Read more...
11 University and Library Groups Release Net-Neutrality Principles
By Avi Wolfman-Arent. The nation’s colleges and libraries have a message for the Federal Communications Commission: Don’t mess with net neutrality. Echoing almost a decade of pro-neutrality sentiment in academe, 11 higher-education and library groups released a set of 11 principles on Thursday that promote the notion that all Internet content, regardless of origin, should be treated equally. More...
Tuition and Fees Rise, but Cost of Living—by Colleges’ Estimate—Falls
By Jonah Newman. As usual, the U.S. Department of Education is a bit behind when it comes to data. Published tuition and fees increased by about 4 percent at public and private nonprofit four-year colleges and by nearly 5 percent at public two-year colleges from 2011-12 to 2013-14, when adjusted for inflation, according to a new release from the National Center for Education Statistics. More...
Majoration de l'aide en cas de double recrutement d'un jeune et d'une senior
PROJET DE DECRET : MAJORATION DE L’AIDE EN CAS DE DOUBLE RECRUTEMENT D’UN JEUNE ET D’UN SENIOR…. ET SUPPRESSION DE l’OBLIGATION DE TRANSMISSION D’UN DIAGNOSTIC SUR L’EMPLOI DES JEUNES ET DES SENIORS
Le montant de l’aide est porté à 8 000 euros pour les entreprises qui recrutent un jeune de moins de 26 ans en CDI, et un sénior de 55 ans et plus
DIAGNOSTIC
A noter : suppression de l’obligation de transmission d’un "diagnostic sur l’emploi des jeunes et des seniors" aux Direccte pour les entreprises de 50 à 299 salariés couvertes par un accord de branche… »
Réforme de la formation professionnelle - Nouvelle version du projet de décret
REFORME DE LA FORMATION PROFESSIONNELLE
COMPTE PERSONNEL DE FORMATION ET REMUNERATION DES SALARIES EN FORMATION
LA NOUVELLE VERSION DU PROJET DE DECRET S’INCRIT DANS UN COMPROMIS
La prise en charge par un OPCA (ou par un employeur) de la rémunération s’effectue « dans la limite de 50 % du montant total pris en charge pour le financement de la formation… »
COMPOSITION DU COPANEF ET DU COPAREF – PROJETS DE DECRETS
Comité paritaire interprofessionnel national pour l’emploi et la formation et Comité paritaire interprofessionnel régional pour l’emploi et la formation
1°Trois représentants pour la Confédération générale des petites et moyennes entreprises [CGPME] ;
2°Six représentants pour le Mouvement des entreprises de France [MEDEF] ;
3° Un représentant pour l’Union professionnelle artisanale [UPA].
4° Deux représentants pour la Confédération française démocratique du travail [CFDT]
5° Deux représentants pour la Confédération française de l'encadrement - Confédération générale des cadres [CFE-CGC] ;
6° Deux représentants pour la Confédération française des travailleurs chrétiens [CFTC] ;
7° Deux représentants pour la Confédération générale du travail [CGT] ;
8° Deux représentants pour la Confédération générale du travail - Force Ouvrière [CGT-FO].