Programmation des contrats uniques d'insertion du second semestre 2013
Circulaire Circulaire DGEFP n° 2013-09 du 5 juin 2013 relative à la programmation des contrats uniques d'insertion du second semestre 2013
Résumé: Le nombre de demandeurs d'emploi a atteint, au cours du premier semestre 2013, un niveau particulièrement élevé.
La mobilisation accrue de tous les outils de la politique publique de l'emploi est donc plus que jamais nécessaire pour permettre l'inversion de la courbe du chômage.
Afin d'intensifier le rythme des prospections, les enveloppes du deuxième semestre 2013 vous sont notifiées dès maintenant en intégrant une enveloppe complémentaire de 92 000 contrats aidés, soit 262 000 contrats au total. La diffusion anticipée de la circulaire, avant son application à compter du 1er juillet 2013, doit ainsi vous permettre de préparer la gestion du second semestre. Télécharger la Circulaire DGEFP 2013-09 PROGRAMMATION CUI.

By Nontobeko Mtshali. The graduation rate among undergraduate students in South Africa’s 23 public universities is 15 percent.
The rate for Master’s students is 20 percent and for doctoral students 12 percent.
These figures are contained in the Department of Higher Education and Training’s first annual statistical report, published this year, which looked at the “size and shape of post-school education and training in South Africa”.
Nicolene Murdoch, the executive director for teaching and quality at Monash South Africa, said the graduation rates have ranged from 15 percent to 20 percent for several years now. Read more...

By Chris Marshall. ACCESS to Scotland’s universities remains as socially unequal as it was in the mid-1990s, despite the scrapping of tuition fees and attempts to encourage more working-class students, a major study has found.
Research by Edinburgh University found the composition of students by social class had “changed little” across the UK, regardless of whether or not fees were charged.
The analysis of university application figures between 1996 and 2010 showed that, while devolution had led to diverging policies on higher education, there had been a limited impact, with national differences in tuition fees failing to alter social inequalities. Read more...

By Lucy Sherriff. Payday loans lenders have been banned from advertising at three UK universities for exploiting "vulnerable" students, after some were found to have interest rates of more than 4000%. The University of Northampton, Northumbria University and Swansea University have all committed to prohibiting adverts from companies calling the lenders "hugely irresponsible" for targeting students struggling with financial debt. The decision is the result of a lengthy drive by the National Union of Students to hold payday lenders to account, after research revealed as much as 10% of students in vulnerable groups have accessed high risk debt, with many starving themselves to save money. Payday loans adverts are already banned at the University of East London, who said it wanted to prevent students becoming "financially destitute or desperate" through taking out high-interest debts. Read more...

LUCKNOW: The rupee devaluation has hit foreign education plans of many. While students pursuing higher education from a foreign university have no choice but to bear the brunt, those who have plans are putting them on hold. Besides, those looking out for jobs abroad too are finding it tough to sail through. Garima Kakkar, a graduate in Bachelors in Business and Management from University of Manchester, UK, has been planning to go to Ohio State University in USA to pursue Masters in Marketing. "Due to dollar appreciation, I am on the verge of dropping the idea. I expect my cost to go up by at least 10 lakh Indian rupees in air tickets, cost of living and poor availability of jobs in US,'' says Garima. Read more...

MOSCOW, June 13 (Alexey Eremenko, RIA Novosti) – Physics and theology are hard to combine –and an attempt to open a theology department at a prestigious Russian nuclear physics institute has stirred up a storm of protest and verbal sparring between scientists and clerics, highlighting Russia’s increasingly tense religious-secular divide.
The new department is due to open in the fall at Moscow’s National Research Nuclear University (MEPhI), ranked the third best institution of higher learning in Russia, according to a 2012 survey by the business weekly Expert.
But the plan has numerous ardent critics, who call it an infringement on secular education by the Russian Orthodox Church, which has been playing a growing role in public life since the fall of Communism. Read more...

By Adam Taylor. This morning, the New York Post published a story arguing that New York University was "booting" blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng from the university after pressure from the Chinese government. The paper speculates that NYU's plans for a Shanghai campus were behind the decision. Chen, a political dissident who spent years under house arrest in China, became a fellow at the university after escaping from his homeland with the help of Hillary Clinton in May 2012.
Now a source close to Chen has hit back at the article, describing it as a "hatchet job" on embattled NYU President John Sexton, whom the source also described as a "hero" and a "stand up guy" for the role he played in accepting Chen in the first place. Read more...

By Sascha Bercovitch. Caracas, June 10th 2013 (Venezuelanalysis.com) – In an effort to achieve wage increases, professors at 13 universities across the country have gone on strike, bringing university operations to a halt.
University strikes, normally led by professors and students belonging to the conservative opposition, have become common over the past several years in Venezuela, delaying scheduled classes and often causing students to graduate later than expected.
As the current strikes began at several universities last month, groups in Caracas led a large march throughout the city, during which Minister for University Education Pedro Calzadilla spoke. Read more...