INSERTION PAR L’ACTIVITE ECONOMIQUE : AIDE FINANCIERE
Publication de l’arrêté du 6 mars 2014 fixant le montant de l’aide financière aux structures de l’insertion par l’activité économique
Rapport de l’IGAS
« A la suite du rapport de modernisation de l’action publique (MAP) de l’inspection générale des affaires sociales (IGAS) et de l’inspection générale des finances (IGF) relatif aux aides financières à l’alternance, les ministres chargés de l’éducation nationale, du travail, de l’emploi, de la formation professionnelle et du dialogue social, et de la réforme de l’état, de la décentralisation et de la fonction publique ont souhaité prolonger la réflexion par une analyse des freins non financiers au développement du contrat d’apprentissage.
A cet effet, ils ont missionné, par lettre du 23 octobre 2013, l’Inspection générale des affaires sociales (IGAS), l’Inspection générale de l’éducation nationale (IGEN), l’Inspection générale de l’administration de l’éducation nationale et de la recherche (IGAENR) et l’Inspection générale de l’administration (IGA).
Ce rapport pointe les freins culturels, pédagogiques, juridiques, organisationnels et institutionnels, qui au-delà des aspects financiers, entravent le développement de l’apprentissage.
Il formule des recommandations visant à les surmonter… »
We will consider with interest the OFT's report. In October 2013, the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) launched a call for information on the undergraduate higher education sector in England in order to gain a better understanding of how choice and competition were working in the higher education sector. We welcome the report's recognition of the international excellence and reputation of higher education in England. As lead regulator for higher education, we look forward to discussing its recommendations with the Competition and Markets Authority.
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The March report, 'Higher Education in England: An OFT Call for Information' is available on the OFT web-site. More...
The Government's response to the Witty Review shines a spotlight on the role of universities as anchors of local and national growth. We welcome the Government's commitment to long-term support of knowledge exchange. The response also gives us exciting new challenges - accelerating effective links between small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) and higher education, deepening HE-Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) relationships and expanding the university contribution to international innovation. More...
HEFCE wishes to appoint new members to its Strategic Advisory Committees.
These positions provide a unique opportunity to contribute to higher education at a time of significant change in the sector. We are keen to recruit new members from education, business, industry and the professions, as well as from individuals who can represent the interests of students.
Enhancing the diversity of the membership of the committees is important to us and we welcome applications from under-represented groups, including women, disabled people and people from an ethnic minority background.
Further information and a person specification are available from the appropriate committee contact:
One-page application statements addressing the person specification should be sent to the appropriate committee e-mail address above by midnight on 11 April 2014.
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1. I am writing to you to provide early notification of the decisions taken by the HEFCE Board on funding for universities and colleges for the 2014-15 academic year, and decisions taken on the approach to recalculating elements of recurrent teaching grant for academic years 2012-13 and 2013-14. On Monday 24 March 2014, institutions will be able to download their recurrent grant letter and tables for each year from the HEFCE extranet. The content of these documents will be embargoed until 0001 on Thursday 27 March 2014: we will publish full information about our allocations to all institutions on that date.
2. The Board has made decisions on the funding to be distributed in the 2013-14 and 2014-15 academic years in the light of the funding for each financial year (1 April to 31 March) announced in the grant letter to HEFCE from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) of 10 February 2014. That letter made changes to the funding previously announced for the 2013-14 and 2014-15 financial years, as well as providing indicative figures for the 2015-16 financial year. More...
European Women Rectors Platform and Istanbul Technical University are happy to announce the fourth conference on "Beyond The Glass Ceiling: Women Rectors Across Europe, Role of Leadership in Structural Changes" which will be held in Istanbul on 15-17 May 2014.
Registration for Beyond the Glass Ceiling 2014 is now open! The deadline for the registration is extended until March 30th 2014. For further information, please visit the registration page.
The EU would offer talented non-EU students and researchers better living and working conditions so as to boost its member states' long-run competitiveness, under draft rules backed by the full Parliament on Tuesday. The rules would also clarify entry and residence conditions for foreign trainees, volunteers, school pupils and au pairs.
The EU spends 0.8% less of its GDP on R&D than the US and 1.5% less than Japan, prompting many of the world’s best researchers and innovators to go there instead, says the European Commission.
This update of EU rules, backed by 578 votes to 79 with 21 abstentions, would create better conditions to make the EU more attractive to third-country nationals seeking opportunities to do research, study, take part in a student exchange, or do paid or unpaid training, voluntary service or au pairing.
"Other countries in the world are doing a better job than we are in attracting competent and well-qualified workers. We often have complicated bureaucratic procedures (...) we need simplified, clearer rules to make the EU more attractive. More foreign students and international exchanges would boost economic growth, promote innovation, create more jobs in the long term and make our member states more competitive", said rapporteur Cecilia Wikström (ALDE, SE). More...
On 30 April 2014, the first Training Seminar as part of the ATHENA project will be held at the University of Helsinki, Finland. At the event we will welcome delegates from our partner universities, ministries of higher education and the national rectors’ conferences in Armenia, Moldova, and Ukraine, alongside representatives from our host partner universities, the University of Helsinki and Haaga‐Helia University of Applied Sciences.
The aim of the event is building capacity by disseminating examples of good practice in the field of financial management. Practitioners from our two host partner universities will present their experiences in this field, with the aim of enabling delegates from Armenia, Moldova and Ukraine to promote good financial management in their own institutions. The preliminary event programme can be found here. More...
The final ATHENA Country Workshop took place at Yerevan State University on 6 March
The ATHENA project held its final Country Workshop last week at Yerevan State University in Armenia. Those in attendance heard the conclusions of EUA policy analysis of the Armenian higher education system, as well as presentations from a range of international experts. Armenian stakeholders also had the opportunity to give their perspectives on the national reform process and the ways in which greater autonomy could be achieved.
The event follows similar events in 2013 in Moldova and Ukraine, attracted over 100 national delegates, including the Deputy Minister for Education and Science, other government officials, university leaders, academic staff, representatives of civil society organizations and students. It was co-organised by EUA and the Armenian project partners. All presentations are available on the event page on the EUA website. More...
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