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2 mars 2014

Ecoles des Mines : les frais d'inscription des étudiants s'envolent

Les EchosPar Marie-Christine Corbier. Les droits de scolarité vont quadrupler pour les étrangers, pour compenser la baisse de la subvention de l'Etat. Une association saisit le Conseil d'Etat. Les étudiants étrangers doivent-ils payer des droits de scolarité plus élevés que les étudiants français ? « Oui », répondent les prestigieuses écoles des Mines, regroupées derrière l'Institut Mines-Télécom. « Oui » aussi, estiment les ministères de tutelle de ces écoles (Redressement productif et Budget). Deux arrêtés du 23 décembre dernier, cosignés des deux ministères, prévoient en effet une différenciation des droits de scolarité pour les étudiants français et étrangers (hors Union européenne) dans les écoles de l'Institut Mines-Télécom et les six écoles des Mines qui lui sont rattachées (Paris, Saint-Etienne, Alès, Douai, Nantes, Albi-Carmaux). La hausse des droits de scolarité doit s'appliquer dès la rentrée prochaine. Pour les étudiants français et les ressortissants de l'Union européenne, ils augmenteront de 850 à 1.850 euros. Pour les étrangers, ils passeront de 850 à 3.850 euros. More...

2 mars 2014

Big fee rises at elite Mines schools hit non-EU students hardest

http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UWN.jpgBy Jane Marshall. Fees for French and European students at the elite Écoles des Mines will more than double from the next academic year – but will rise by four-and-a-half times for non-European students. An immigrant support organisation is appealing to France’s State Council to annul the ‘discriminatory, unjust and illegal’ measures. New students enrolling at the prestigious Mines schools of engineering and management will have to pay €3,850 (US$5,256) if they are from countries outside the European Union, and €1,850 if they are French or EU nationals. At present fees for all students are €850 a year. The increases are to compensate for a cut in the state subsidy, according to the daily financial newspaper Les Echos. They will take effect from the 2014-15 academic year and will affect only new students. Read more...
2 mars 2014

Pay level leak prompts public outrage, angers rectors

http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UWN.jpgBy Michael Gardner. Leaked pay statistics showing drastic increases in the salaries of university leaders have caused an uproar in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The disclosure comes while universities and the state government are squabbling over new higher education legislation. Read more...
2 mars 2014

Improving conditions for foreign students, researchers

By Karen MacGregor. The European Union Parliament last week supported draft rules that will offer ‘talented’ non-European international students and researchers improved living and working conditions. The aim is to boost the ability of member countries to attract the world’s finest minds. The draft rules were backed by parliament with 578 votes to 79 against and 21 abstentions – showing considerable support for a rule change that, it said in a press statement, “would also clarify entry and residence conditions”. Read more...
2 mars 2014

Time to put protection of HE on the global agenda

http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UWN.jpgBy Brendan O'Malley. The reporting in Education Under Attack 2014 shows that the problem of attacks on higher education is “immense”, but most of all it tells us that a collective response is needed involving states and the international higher education sector, according to Robert Quinn, executive director of Scholars at Risk. Read more...
2 mars 2014

Higher education under violent attack in 28 countries

By Brendan O'Malley. Attacks on higher education institutions, students and staff are much more widespread than previously thought, according to a study published last Thursday by the Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack. The study, Education Under Attack 2014, is the most comprehensive yet on the issue of violent attacks against schools, universities, students, teachers, academics, education officials and education trade unionists worldwide by armed groups, armed forces and security forces. Read more...
2 mars 2014

Government to combat plagiarism and illegal degrees

http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UWN.jpgBy Eugene Vorotnikov. The Russian government has designed a new set of rules to combat fake dissertations and degrees. The move follows a recent order by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev after a series of scandals exposed well-known politicians, businessmen and officials who illegally received degrees from prestigious Russian universities. According to a recent study conducted by Anti-Plagiarism, one of Russia’s leading analytical agencies in the field of intellectual property, one out of every 10 theses on history defended in Russia involves plagiarism. Read more...
2 mars 2014

ANU’s bilingual MOOC a hit in India

afr.comBy Tim Dodd. Anant Agarwal, president of US massive open online course provider edX, is a native Hindi speaker. He was born and grew up in India until he left for the United States to study for a masters and PhD at Stanford University. Today, India is a major market for edX. Indian students make up 250,000 of the 2 million worldwide who have registered for edX courses.
But Professor Agarwal had to come to the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra to find the first edX MOOC to be delivered in his native language. On April 29, ANU will launch Engaging India, a 10-week course which ANU academics McComas Taylor and Peter Friedlander will present online with the help of ANU India specialists, taking advantage of the university’s widely-recognised expertise on the country. More...

2 mars 2014

New ways colleges target rich alumni

By Melanie Hicken. Targeting alumni for donations is big business for colleges and universities -- and schools are getting more savvy with their tactics. Called "prospect research," the practice of targeting wealthy alumni is not new. But the tools are getting better: complex data models using massive databases that store everything from wealth and income to class reunion attendance. Schools can now predict how likely a student's parent or diehard university sports fan is to open their wallet. They can analyze whether a fraternity member tends to be more generous than those who ditched the Greek scene. More...

2 mars 2014

Trends forcing change in higher education recruitment

MetroWest Daily News, Framingham, MABy Scott O'Connell.From recruiting in the American south to catering to working adults, local colleges and universities are finding new ways to attract students as they deal with a predicted drop-off in high school graduates in the state over the next decade.
According to the National Center for Education Statistics, the number of public high school graduates in Massachusetts, after increasing nearly 12 percent from 2003-04 to 2008-09, is expected to fall off 5 percent from 2008-09 to 2021-22. Some other New England states are projected to have even steeper declines. More...

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