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By David Felsen. The administration has tackled energy reform to open up the country’s state oil monopoly to foreign investment and to develop global partnerships in the energy sector. The government also recently introduced an education reform with a view to raising teaching standards and holding Mexican teachers more accountable at the K-12 level, through changes such as the introduction of across-the-board performance evaluations. Furthermore, the government’s recent autumn tax bill seeks to improve efficiency in the country’s tax system. However, despite the positive measures undertaken during President Peña’s first year in office, numerous challenges remain across a range of sectors. These include issues that impact the country’s global competitiveness, not the least of which is higher education. In September the 2013 QS World University Rankings -- considered by many to be the gold standard of rankings in global higher education -- came out with its list of the world’s top universities. And the telling stat? Mexico did not have a single university represented within the top 100. Nor, for that matter, did Brazil or India. China produced only one Top 100 school. More...

By Dana Sand. Study: 78% of U.S. who studied abroad in 2010-11 were white. Kenya Casey studied abroad as an undergrad in 1997. As an African American, she noticed an under-representation of minority students on her trip. Today, as associate director of the Center for International Programs Abroad (CIPA) at Emory University, she says the trend hasn't changed. The Institute of International Education's Open Doors data shows that 78% of U.S. students who studied abroad in 2010-11 were white. More...

By Gretchen Dobson. You’ve heard it many times: We’re in the relationship business. But how do you build and maintain relationships with your alumni when they’re scattered across the globe? Should you even try?
For educational institutions pondering whether to implement an international alumni program or for those wishing to improve their existing programs, this book can offer guidance and insight.
Being Global also includes a wealth of information about best practices being implemented by independent schools, colleges, universities and business schools around the world. These concrete examples look closely at managing from a distance, student-alumni programs, programming with faculty and signature programs. A comprehensive appendix list points you to hundreds of additional resources on these topics and more.
Is international alumni relations right for your institution? Let this book help you find the way to an answer.

New study finds that many colleges, indeed up to half in a sample, are pondering the development of their own MOOCs, Massive Open Online Courses. Most seem to be "skinny dipping" in the market, interested in producing a MOOC in a niche area as a hedge to potential wide scale changes in higher education over the next five years. More...

By Jeff Borden. Earlier this month, I went to an eLearning conference in Saudi Arabia and again, the topic of Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs, came up. But, they were discussed very differently at this conference than I have described in past posts. For the past few years, I have noted that MOOCs are the easiest way to get attendance at eLearning conference presentations. About 25-35% of conference sessions talked about the  – mostly from a, “How You Can Do It” perspective although there were always a few asking if we should, “Believe The Hype?”
But at this conference, it was stated as official — “The Hype Is Over.” This was stated emphatically by both an American keynote presenter and by the Director of eLearning for the main University in the Kingdom. They both noted that MOOCs were just simply given too much credit out of the gate and that they often took away from the real conversation of eLearning. More...

Par Lydie Chaintreuil, Dominique Epiphane. "Les hommes sont plus fonceurs mais les femmes mieux organisées" : quand les recruteur-e-s parlent du sexe des candidat-e-s. Bref , n° 315 , 2013 , 4 p.
Les discriminations à l'embauche sont punies par la loi. Pourtant, lors d'un recrutement, le critère du sexe est rarement neutre. Le supposé manque de disponibilité des femmes n'est pas seul en cause. Tout un ensemble de traits de personnalité encore assignés « naturellement » aux hommes et aux femmes peut venir biaiser la sélection. Les propos de recruteurs, des deux sexes, montrent que les stéréotypes ont la vie dure...
Pour en savoir plus sur l'étude EVADE :
Evade - Entrée dans la vie active et discriminations à l'embauche, Lydie Chaintreuil, Thomas Couppié, Dominique Epiphane, Emmanuel Sulzer, Net.doc n°114, octobre 2013
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Génération Quoi ? est un programme interactif produit par France Télévisions, Upian et Yami2. Il s’articule autour de trois films documentaires, diffusés en octobre sur France 2, et d’une grande enquête dont le but est de dresser un portrait des 18-34 ans en France, ceux qu’on appelle parfois la Génération Y.
Plus de 150 000 personnes ont déjà répondu à l’enquête : un grand questionnaire en ligne, conçu en collaboration avec Cécile Van de Velde, sociologue et maître de conférence à l’EHESS, et Camille Peugny, sociologue et maître de conférence à l’Université Paris-VIII. L’objet de ce questionnaire est de sonder les aspirations, les espoirs et les craintes de la Génération Y.
Un portrait documentaire et statistique de la Génération Y est constitué des témoignages de jeunes et enrichi en temps réel par les chiffres recueillis via le questionnaire.
Pendant un an, les caméras de la documentariste Laetita Moreau ont suivi des jeunes de la mission locale de Cergy à la recherche de leur premier emploi, de leur premier stage, ou juste de leur voie.

> Le site du programme generation-quoi.france2.fr

> La série documentaire à voir ou à revoir sur le site de l’émission Infrarouge