By Graeme Paton. Figures from the National Apprenticeship Service show that up to 27 people are chasing each training place, with demand being fuelled by increased interest among women.
Up to 27 school leavers are competing for every apprenticeship place as rising numbers of teenagers shun university in favour of the workplace.
New figures show that on-the-job training schemes have been swamped with record numbers of applications over the last 12 months. More...
By Chrisella Herzog. An Interview with Monica Flores Barragán
Across the globe, we hear too many stories of high youth unemployment. The part of the story we do not always hear, however, is the trouble businesses around the world have in recruiting enough high-quality talent from the STEM fields to fill all the IT, computer science, and engineering positions available.
Monica Flores, Regional Managing Director for ManpowerGroup’s Latin America division, is on the front lines of bringing talent to available jobs, as she oversees a continent-wide recruitment and training effort. After her appearance on a panel at the World Economic Forum’s Latin America regional meeting in Peru, the Diplomatic Courier sat down with her to discuss the global war for talent, challenges specific to Latin America, and what can be done to address it all. More...
By Ian Mundell.The first European mobility scoreboard is proving a useful tool for universities, not least because it has revealed some worrying trends. Europe's governments have a long-standing commitment to encouraging young people to study abroad and to removing obstacles that are in their way. Yet it is only now that an overview has been produced to show what those commitments mean in practice. The first edition of the European mobility scoreboard, published in January, shows considerable variation across Europe. It also reveals areas where it is impossible to say what, if anything, has been achieved. More...
Von Fabienne Roth. Studieren im Ausland, klar, das machen viele. Aber warum gerade in der Türkei? Diese Frage hörte ich häufig. Sie wurde mir vor und nach meinem Auslandssemester so oft gestellt, dass ich begann, mich selbst zu fragen, warum das für andere so abwegig schien.
Mein Entschluss, ein Auslandssemester zu machen, stand schon während der Schulzeit fest. Im fünften Semester war es soweit: Ich fand mich mit einem Flugticket in der Hand wieder. Ankara ist die Hauptstadt der Türkei und mit fünf Millionen Einwohnern ihre zweitgrößte Stadt. Mehr...
Liberal Swedish MEP Cecilia Wikström tells The Local about a new EU directive that will allow greater opportunities for non-EU students who wish to study and work in Sweden.
Back in 2011, the Swedish government introduced tuition fees for students from outside the EU, prompting the precipitous drop in the number of non-EU students studying in Sweden. More...
By Karen Kleiss. Critics blame 'draconian' budget cuts for lowered access to classes. A new report issued by a coalition of student groups shows the vast majority of Alberta's post-secondary education students believe government should take steps to make education more accessible and affordable. Nine in 10 students place high importance on a postsecondary education system that has "affordable" and "predictable costs," while more than 80 per cent say government can decrease debt loads and increase participation rates by offering more grants and bursaries that need not be repaid. More...
David Helfand. Education today provides excellent preparation for a job – in the 19th-century. This is not terribly surprising, as both our curriculum and our modes of delivery were developed in the 19th-century. There’s only one problem: We live in the 21st-century. It takes 5 milliseconds to communicate with someone in Europe, not 5 weeks. It takes half a dozen robots to assemble an automobile, not 100 factory workers. Everything has changed – except education. More...
By Karen Seidman. As countries compete for the most engineers and scientists, and the greatest technological and medical breakthroughs, and as funding to universities is being cut, the need for humanities in higher education is being questioned.
At a forum at McGill University on Tuesday debating the relevance of humanities education, about 40 academics and students who gathered in the arts building lamented the economic realities of the world today that pressures students to take programs that lead directly to jobs.
Yet enrolment in McGill’s humanities programs — which typically include literature, history, languages, the arts, philosophy and religion — has been steady, or increasing slightly, said Maggie Kilgour, who organized the event. More...
By Frances Willick. A coalition of groups concerned about the state of post-secondary education is calling on the provincial government to increase funding to higher education, and says it has the support of Nova Scotians behind it.
A new Nova Scotia Post-Secondary Education Coalition poll found that 60 per cent of those surveyed believe government funding should comprise a larger portion of university and college budgets — and they are willing to pay higher taxes to make education more affordable.
The report, called Building for the Future, polled 800 Nova Scotians over seven days in December. More...
By Carys Mills. Splitting summers working at a grocery store and students’ union never made Nicole Desnoyers enough money to pay her University of Ottawa tuition on time.
Not with other bills, rent to pay and books to buy, said Desnoyers, 21, now in her fourth year of the women’s studies program.
So each August, left with few options, Desnoyers missed her tuition payment deadline, knowing the result would be late fees. “We can’t afford our tuition even after four months of solid work if you’re working a minimum-wage job,” she said. More...
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