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By Sangita Thebe Limbu. Higher education is supposed to give you skills and confidence. But lots of students end up feeling just plain anxious. Does the education system foster insecurity?
Ivan Illich, an Austrian philosopher, said schools create inferiority. When I first read this, I thought, how hypocritical of Illich to criticise institutionalised education when he himself studied at universities in Rome and Salzburg.
However, I'm now a final-year undergraduate, and experience and further reading have made me sympathetic towards Illich, particularly in relation to higher education.
Universities are often portrayed as institutions for social mobility – gateways to social status, cultural sophistication and professional jobs. Read more...

The continent’s burgeoning economies could prove a major source of future student recruitment, says Marguerite Dennis. Consider the following: there are about a billion people in Africa, and the continent has 20 per cent of the world’s land and 15 per cent of the world’s population. Around 70 per cent of the population own a mobile phone.
Africa had six of the world’s fastest-growing economies between 2001 and 2010. Direct foreign investment in Africa has increased by 50 per cent since 2005. From 2003 to 2011, Chinese annual investment in Africa increased from $100 million (£66 million) to $12 billion. The Chinese government has funded 40,000 private sector jobs, 20,000 scholarships and 29 Confucius Institutes in 22 African countries. Read more...

Rendue publique par Pôle emploi le 9 avril 2013, l’enquête sur les Besoins en main-d’oeuvre (BMO) 2013 fait état de 1 613 100 projets de recrutement dans les 388 bassins d’emploi français, soit une augmentation de 0,3% par rapport à 2012.
La part des employeurs envisageant de réaliser au moins une embauche au cours de l’année 2013 atteint 18%. Ce qui correspond à 421 900 recruteurs potentiels. Seulement 14,9% des établissements de moins de 10 salariés envisagent de recruter, alors qu’ils sont plus de la moitié dans les structures de 100 salariés ou plus.
La moitié des postes envisagés sont des emplois durables (CDI ou CDD de six mois ou plus).
Figurent parmi les profils les plus demandés, plusieurs métiers de services aux particuliers comme les animateurs socioculturels, les aides à domicile ou les aides ménagères, les serveurs de café et de restaurants, les employés de l’hôtellerie. Les services aux entreprises offrent également de nombreuses opportunités soit sur des postes opérationnels et peu qualifiés (agents d’entretien de locaux, manutentionnaires), soit sur des postes de cadres (ingénieurs, cadres d’études et R&D en informatique). En savoir plus sur les résultats du BMO en Poitou-Charentes. Tous les résultats: http://bmo.pole-emploi.org/. Suite de l'article...

By Kyle Spencer. ALONG his block in Newark’s West Ward, where drugs are endemic and the young residents talk about shootings with alarming nonchalance, Najee Little is known as the smart kid. He got all A’s his sophomore year, breezing through math and awing his English teachers. His mother, a day care worker, and father, who does odd jobs to make ends meet, have high aspirations for him. They want him to earn a college degree. So last year, when Bard College opened an early college high school in Newark for disadvantaged students with dreams of a bachelor’s degree, he was sure he’d do well there. He wrote his first long paper on Plato’s “Republic,” expecting a top grade. He got a D minus. “Honestly,” he recalled, “I was kind of discouraged.” Read more...

By MICHAEL BARBER, KATELYN DONNELLY and SAAD RIZVI. Our belief is that deep, radical and urgent transformation is required in higher education as much as it is in school systems. Our fear is that, perhaps as a result of complacency, caution or anxiety, or a combination of all three, the pace of change is too slow and the nature of change too incremental.
We need an inspired generation, all of whom are well-educated and some of whom are able to provide the bold, sophisticated leadership that the 21st century demands. We need citizens ready to take personal responsibility both for themselves and for the world around them: citizens who have, and seize, the opportunity to learn and relearn throughout their lives. We need citizens who are ready and able to take their knowledge of the best that has been thought and said and done and apply it to the problems of the present and the future. Read more...

By Tobi Soniyi. The body regulating legal education in the country, the Council of Legal Education, Tuesday said the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) had not been accredited to run law degree programme.
Speaking in Abuja at a briefing to commence the 50 years anniversary of the Nigerian Law School, the Chairman of the Council, Mr Onueze Okocha, said anyone who studied law at NOUN and hoping to secure admission to the Nigerian Law School was merely wasting his time and resources.
He explained that NOUN did not have the necessary pre requisites such as moot court, lecturers among others to run a degree in law.
He advised those already studying law at NOUN to transfer to accredited universities. Read more...

By Martin Shipton. New figures published today show Welsh universities have seen their overall funding settlements increase Share on print Share on email.
Universities in Wales have seen their overall funding settlements increase despite a marked reduction in public funding. A change in the way higher education is funded sees students themselves offset reductions to core university budgets by paying up to £9,000 for their courses. Money is allocated by the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (Hefcw) on the basis that universities deliver on specific government priorities and teach certain subjects. But fees paid by students over and above the old £3,575 rate – the maximum universities can charge is £9,000 – go direct to universities themselves. Read more...