An Open Letter to the U.S. Congress
The open letter to the U.S. Congress signed by 25 Nobel prize winners has been released. It calls for support for open access to scientific materials. "When a woman goes online to find what treatment options are available to battle breast cancer, the cutting-edge, peer-reviewed research remains behind a high-fee barrier. More...
Redwood Group Maps Managed Learning Environments
After eWeek's take on the Redwood Group, covered here a few days ago, Wilbert Kraan of CETIS constributes with his own, less sensational, take on the group's work. Readers will want to note his reference in this context to the E-Learning Framework (ELF) being undertaken by Industry Canada, Australia's Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST) and JISC/CETIS. More...
OOPS! A Free Model for Open Knowledge
Description of OOPS, a site that invites people to create Chinese translations of MIT's OpenCourseWare courses. Goof discription of how a chaotic, non-managed project can produce good results. More...
Free Culture
Lawrence Lessig outlines the history of remix - the practice of using materials from previous works to createnew works, and contrasts this with the copyright "insanity" that has come to characterize the legal environment today. Summary of his talk at ITI in Utah. By Stephen Downes, Stephen'sWeb, September 1, 2004 [Refer][Research][Reflect]. More...
USU Instructional Technology Institute
Yesterday's unscheduled interruption in the smooth flow of newsletters was caused by travel from New Brunswick to the ITI in Logan, Utah. Internet access has been a bit of a challenge (though I'm fine now) - if you sent me email, it will be a day or two before I respond, as my email client can't cross the proxy server here in Utah. More...
By Elizabeth Redden. American universities' ties with Saudi Arabia -- always controversial -- are coming under more scrutiny. A look at the multimillion-dollar connections between Saudi Arabia and leading American universities -- and the questions being raised about what the Saudis are getting. More...
By Elizabeth Redden. A biographer of the Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi will not take up his post as a professor of humanities at a new university after Hindu nationalist student groups objected to his appointment, The Guardian reported. More...
By Elizabeth Redden. The University of Liverpool is abandoning plans to open a campus in Egypt after coming under criticism from academics who accused it of ignoring the country’s human rights record, The Guardian reported. More...
Les branches professionnelles ont pour missions de définir les conditions d’emploi et de travail des salariés et de réguler la concurrence entre les entreprises dans leur champ. Les extensions des accords de branche, qui sont généralisées en France, consistent à étendre les dispositions d’un accord à l’ensemble des entreprises d’une branche professionnelle, qu’elles aient été ou non engagées dans la négociation de celui-ci.
Un quart des entreprises, employant deux tiers des salariés, adhèrent à une organisation patronale, selon la mesure de l’audience patronale réalisée en 2017. Les extensions des accords de branche conduisent donc à rendre ces accords applicables à trois quarts des entreprises et un tiers des salariés, qui ne seraient pas couverts en l’absence d’extension. Les entreprises adhérentes comptant en moyenne six fois plus de salariés que les non-adhérentes, les branches où les grandes entreprises sont nombreuses présentent des taux de couverture patronale élevés.
Dans les conventions collectives de branche où la couverture patronale est faible, les salariés sont davantage des jeunes et des femmes. De manière générale, ils sont moins bien rémunérés, et les minima salariaux garantis par les accords conventionnels sont plus faibles.
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