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12 mai 2013

Report Urges More Help for Women at Community Colleges

http://www.insidehighered.com/sites/all/themes/ihecustom/logo.jpgA new report from the American Association of University Women makes several recommendations for furthering women’s success in community colleges, a goal the report calls “too often overlooked.”  Based on their research, authors Andresse St. Rose and Catherine Hill make two primary recommendations: “Support student parents” and “Increase the number of women in nontraditional fields, including STEM.” Read more...

12 mai 2013

Study: Hispanic College-Going Rate Tops White Rate

http://www.insidehighered.com/sites/all/themes/ihecustom/logo.jpgAn all-time high of 69 percent of Hispanics graduating from high school in 2012 enrolled in college that fall, according to analysis by the Pew Research Center. This is a greater proportion than that of white graduates from the same class, of whom 67 percent enrolled in college. According to Pew, Hispanic college-going has seen a long-term increase, especially since the recession hit, whereas enrollment by white high school graduates has gradually declined since 2008. Read more...

12 mai 2013

Les jeunes et l'entrepreneuriat

http://www.redressement-productif.gouv.fr/files/jeune-entrepreneur.pngCréer son entreprise quand on est jeune: aventure impossible ou initiative idéale? Selon l’Agence pour la création d’entreprises (APCE) les atouts des jeunes sont nombreux: pas encore de charges familiales, pas ou peu d'emprunts à rembourser, du temps pour préparer un projet, de l'imagination, de l'enthousiasme et surtout des aptitudes à assimiler rapidement de nouvelles notions. Des grands chefs d’entreprise ont ainsi monté leur projet à moins de 30 ans: Michael Dell à 19 ans, Richard Branson et Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet à 20 ans. A 23 ans, Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet créait sa deuxième société et Alain Afflelou a ouvert son premier magasin à 24 ans. Voir les études du MoovJee sur l'image de l'entrepreneuriat auprès des lycéens professionnels et des étudiants, réalisée pour l'APCE et le Salon des Entrepreneurs en février 2013 et de l'APCE - Zoom sur la création d'entreprise par les jeunes.
Quelques chiffres
En 2010, 24 % des créateurs d’entreprise
avaient moins de 30 ans dont 8% sont âgés de moins de 25 ans. Trois ans après leur création, 59% des entreprises créées par des jeunes sont toujours en activité. Selon les jeunes Français, savoir commander et diriger une équipe, être organisé, ou ne jamais être débordé sont des qualités indispensables pour les chefs d’entreprise. Pourtant cette vision change lorsque ces mêmes personnes créent leur entreprise. Etre autonome, savoir décider (39%), travailler beaucoup (31%) et savoir gérer le travail administratif (29%) apparaissent alors comme des compétences essentielles pour bien gérer une société.
En 2012, 37% des jeunes envisageaient de créer ou de reprendre une entreprise un jour, et parmi eux, 44% déclaraient vouloir passer à l’acte dans les cinq années suivantes. Les études tendent néanmoins à relativiser ces chiffres compte tenu des variations de projets des jeunes. Selon l’APCE, l’intention entrepreneuriale est fortement impactée par des caractéristiques liées à la connaissance et l’expérience de la création d’entreprise ainsi que de l’entrepreneuriat.
43% des jeunes chefs d’entreprise
déclarent un chiffre d’affaires annuel hors taxes de 80 000 euros ou plus. Un chiffre en augmentation pour 3 dirigeants sur 5. Si les créateurs de plus de 30 ans enregistrent des chiffres d’affaires relativement proches des juniors, les jeunes sont plus nombreux à déclarer avoir enregistré une hausse de ce dernier (58% contre 52%).
84% des jeunes chefs d’entreprise se déclarent satisfaits d’avoir pris le chemin de la création, dont 26% indiquent être même fortement satisfaits (c’est autant que pour les 30 ans et plus).
Un tiers des jeunes dirigeants déclare avoir fréquemment des problèmes de trésorerie. 50% des jeunes dirigeants déclarent avoir rencontré des problèmes de délai ou retard de paiement. Sont également citées: les difficultés d’accès aux crédits (26%) et une baisse importante du chiffre  d’affaires (24%). Suite de l'article...
Voir aussi sur le blog Entrepreneuriat étudiant: un axe fort de la politique de Geneviève Fioraso.

http://www.redressement-productif.gouv.fr/sites/all/themes/economie/img/redressement-productif.pngClôture des Assises de l'entrepreneuriat
La clôture des Assises de l'entrepreneuriat, lancées en janvier dernier par Fleur Pellerin, s'est tenue le 29 avril à l'Elysée. A cette occasion, le président de République a annoncé plusieurs mesures.
Pour stimuler l’esprit d’entreprise et mobiliser tous les talents

    * La formalisation d’un programme éducatif sur l’esprit d’initiative et l’innovation dans le Secondaire (de la sixième à la terminale) et dans l’enseignement supérieur;
    * La mise en place dès l’été 2013 d’un fonds pour la création d’entreprises dans les quartiers les moins favorisés;
    * La création d’un dispositif Entrepreneur Etudiant, qui permettra à ceux qui créent une entreprise à l’issue de leurs études de continuer à bénéficier du statut d’étudiant;
    * La suppression de l’indicateur « 040 » du fichier FIBEN de la Banque de France afin de favoriser le rebond des entrepreneurs;
    * La création d’un « visa entrepreneur » ou équivalent, pour attirer les jeunes talents étrangers en France.
http://www.redressement-productif.gouv.fr/files/jeune-entrepreneur.png Ag tosú le gnó nuair a bhíonn tú óg: tionscnamh eachtraíochta dodhéanta nó idéalach? Dar leis an nGníomhaireacht do ghnólachtaí nua-thionscanta (PACE), na sócmhainní go leor daoine óga: fós gan aon freagrachtaí teaghlaigh, beagán nó gan aon fhiach a íoc, am le dréacht de na samhlaíochta, a ullmhú scileanna díograis agus go háirithe chomhshamhlú go tapa coincheapa nua. Níos mó...
11 mai 2013

Hispanic high school graduates pass whites in college enrollment rate

http://s.troveread.com/perpos/0.2.11/5/widgets/rrwv1/img/logo.pngBy Valerie Strauss. It just so happens that in the same week that a co-author of a Heritage Foundation immigration study resigned for suggesting that Hispanics have lower IQs than whites, the Pew Research Hispanic Center released a new analysis showing that Hispanic high school graduates have passed whites in the rate of college enrollment. In a report by Richard Fry and Paul Taylor, the center says that “a record seven-in-ten (69%) Hispanic high school graduates in the class of 2012 enrolled in college that fall, two percentage points higher than the rate (67%) among their white counterparts.” Read more...
11 mai 2013

University: was it worth it?

http://bathknightblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/telegraph-logo.jpgBy David Ellis. The £9,000 question The first cohort of students paying £9,000 university tuition fees are reaching the end of their first year. David Ellis asks them if it has been worth the hefty pricetag so far. Until recently, those undecided about university were often given a rather dubious piece of advice: “Any degree will do – you just need a qualification.” Universities found applicants for every, and any, course. Equine science was a hit, golf management an unmitigated success. The sceptics laughed (though, interestingly, not Boris) but it wasn’t until Clegg’s broken promise and the tripling of fees that debate about the value of university really kicked off. But here's a thought. Perhaps we should consider what the students themselves think? They are, after all, the ones who matter. Student Money Saver asked 500 for their thoughts. Read more...
11 mai 2013

Students demand say over university principals' pay

http://bathknightblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/telegraph-logo.jpgBy Simon Johnson, Scottish Political Editor. Taxpayer funding for universities should be withdrawn unless students are consulted fully on the appointment of principals and their salaries, MSPs have been told. The National Union of Students (NUS) led a major attack on a draft code of governance drawn up by the chairs of university governing bodies, arguing that it ignored reform in the hope of protecting vested interests.
Students must be given more power over the “appointment and appraisal” of principals along with helping set the pay packets of such senior officials, they argued. Read more...
11 mai 2013

Universities 'need more cash to keep up with world's best'

http://bathknightblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/telegraph-logo.jpgBy Graeme Paton. British universities are lagging behind those in other countries because of a lack of investment in higher education, a major international study has found. The UK was ranked 10th in the world despite boasting some of the globe’s best research institutions such as Oxford and Cambridge, it emerged. According to researchers, it is outperformed by other nations such as the United States, Sweden, Switzerland, Denmark, Finland and the Netherlands in an assessment of the overall effectiveness of the higher education system.
British universities were named among the best in the world on a pound-for-pound basis – measuring research output and the production of a skilled workforce needed to meet the needs of industry. But the study by Universitas 21, an international network of universities and colleges, found that the nation slipped dramatically when assessed by the amount of public and private investment in universities. Read more...
11 mai 2013

Britain's universities should take a lesson from the land of the free

http://bathknightblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/telegraph-logo.jpgBy Fraser Nelson. Britain and the US have chosen two very different models for funding universities – and it’s clear which is winning. If a bunch of sadistic academics were to construct a mass experiment into mankind’s ability to resist temptation, it would look a lot like Stanford University. First, plonk a campus in one of the world’s most agreeable climates and make it look more like a spa hotel than a place of study. Next, have students dress as if they have stepped off the beach, and make sure one lies just half an hour away. Then hang hammocks between trees on the way to lecture theatres to ensnare the weak-willed. Finally, funnel 1,800 teenagers a year into this den of distraction – and see if they can do any work.
Oddly, they do. Work of sufficient quality to make Stanford one of the best universities on the planet. While famous for computing (and begetting Silicon Valley), most of its departments are now ranked amongst the world’s top five. Nor is it full of geeks: its athletic record is such that, if Stanford were a country, it would have come sixth in the Olympics – ahead of Germany and Australia. Rather than being a Californian freak, it is just the latest example of an extraordinary trend: the way that American universities are making dazzling progress while most British ones are in a state of crisis. Read more...
11 mai 2013

Guardian University Guide 2014: advice for institutions

http://static.guim.co.uk/static/f8df97e0df9f9797bda45deb8c5c707dc4e88eaf/common/images/logos/the-guardian/professional.gifCalling university administrators: the Guardian University Guide will be published on 4 June. Please check our tables to ensure that we have the correct information about your institution. The launch of the Guardian University Guide 2014 is approaching. We would appreciate it if you could take a look at our preview and alert us to anything that seems amiss. The tables won't provide scores but they do show which categories you'll appear in. There are three thing you need to check:
1. Subjects

The main post-publication query we get is "I have just applied to study subject X at institution Y. Why does it not appear in your rankings?" or "You rank institution Y within your table for subject X, but they have stopped offering courses in that subject area." Read more...

11 mai 2013

Testing questions: Diane Schmitt, English language teaching academic

http://static.guim.co.uk/static/f8df97e0df9f9797bda45deb8c5c707dc4e88eaf/common/images/logos/the-guardian/professional.gifDiane Schmitt gives the lecturer's perspective on the role English language plays in university learning and teaching
Where do you work and what is the focus of your role?

I teach on an MA in English language teaching at Nottingham Trent University (NTU) where most of my students are international. I also teach English for academic purposes (EAP), mainly in-sessional at the moment. Historically, when my university had a very small scale international office, its English language entry requirements were set based on my advice. Now this role is mainly carried out by staff in marketing.
What is your involvement in English language testing?

My main role is outside my institution working with BALEAP, a global forum for EAP professionals. Prior to becoming chair of BALEAP, I was testing officer on its executive for five years and led a working party that developed a new set of guidelines on English language tests for university entry. The aim was to raise awareness among admissions staff and decision makers in universities about how to select appropriate exams for assessing English language readiness for university. Essentially, the guidelines provide guidance on the right questions to ask about the validity and reliability of any given test in relation to making university admissions decisions. Read more...
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