By Jeffrey J. Williams. One of my colleagues went to Woodstock and another lived in Haight-Ashbury in 1969. While they’ve cut their hair since, they’re obviously baby boomers, and they sometimes tell me stories about protesting the Vietnam War, smuggling dope, and seeing Bob Dylan in concert. The strange thing is that I’m supposedly a baby boomer, since I was born in December 1958, but their stories recount a distant world. I only vaguely remember Vietnam on the news, have no memory of JFK, and find Bob Dylan grating. The events that made an impression on me were the Watergate hearings, stagflation, and the Carter and Reagan presidencies. Our music was different, too—OK, let’s forget Journey, but in our early 20s, we raised our lighters to some remarkable bands, like U2, the Cure, and, born in my year, Prince and Madonna. Read more...
Forget Gainful Employment. For-Profits Should Restructure Instead.
By Eric Best and Joel Best. Problems with for-profit colleges are receiving a great deal of attention in education news, and most of the conversation revolves around increasingly modest federal "gainful employment" rules that judge college programs based on their graduates’ debt levels. The Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities is aggressively lobbying lawmakers to further weaken the standards to protect continued federal student-aid payments to member institutions of the trade group. Read more...
How Social Media Will Change Higher Education
By . Social media will develop from an in-class pastime that is disdained by many professors to become an integral tool in education, a panel of experts has predicted. The panel’s study says the increasing use of social media will extend beyond socialization, citizen journalism and politics to become serious pedagogy. More...
Survey Series Examines Arab Attitudes to Media
By . Three years after uprisings across the Arab world expanded space in some countries for media and political freedom, Northwestern University in Qatar is examining just how media is used in the region. Not surprisingly, it has had to maneuver around some sensitivity.
On April 16, the university and the Doha Film Institute will release results of a survey that questioned 6,000 people in six countries on the use of entertainment media in the Arab world. The study will come on the heels of the first of its kind: Media Use in the Middle East, which was published by Northwestern University in Qatar last year and focused on the use of news, rather than entertainment, media. It surveyed more than 10,000 people in eight nations—Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Tunisia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates. More...
For Social Scientists in Qatar, Context is Key
By . Qatar has invested heavily in social science in recent years, trying to build a base of local researchers and drawing foreign academics eager to pursue well-funded research in the Gulf emirate. But Western researchers have learned that successfully conducting research in Qatar means navigating Qatari cultural norms, a challenge that’s forced many to re-think practices they might have taken for granted. More...
A Step Toward Employment: Career Centers
By . As countries from Egypt to Tunisia and Iraq grapple with high unemployment rates, growing populations of young people and political unrest fueled by economic problems, some universities are adopting a foreign concept: Career centers. Often with outside influence or support, the centers are sprouting up across the region. More...
For Many Palestinian Refugees, Higher Education Is Not an Option
By . Ammar Abu Yousef is going to celebrate his thirtieth birthday soon. For years, he dreamt of being a pharmacist. But now he has ended up in a small shop with handmade clay walls selling discounted mobile phones. The shop is in the Jerash refugee camp in Jordan, locally called the “Gaza camp” because more than 20,000 refugees from Gaza settled there after the 1967 war. More...
Do Human Evolution and Islam Conflict in the Classroom?
By . Hanging outside of Professor Touria Benazzour’s office is a cut out of a magazine portrait of Charles Darwin. Benazzour put it up when she began teaching human evolution 25 years ago, one of the first professors to introduce the sensitive and controversial topic in a Moroccan classroom. Today, Benazzour teaches in the master’s degree program at Mohammed V University, the capital’s oldest higher-education public institution. She claims her semester-long course on evolution is still the only one of its kind at a public university. More...
Nature Publishing Group Requires Faculty Authors to Waive ‘Moral Rights’
By Megan O'Neil. Faculty authors who contract to write for the publisher of Nature, Scientific American, and many other journals should know that they could be signing away more than just the economic rights to their work, according to the director of the Office of Copyright and Scholarly Communication at Duke University. Kevin Smith, the Duke official, said he stumbled across a clause in the Nature Publishing Group’s license agreement last week that states that authors waive or agree not to assert "any and all moral rights they may now or in the future hold" related to their work. In the context of scholarly publishing, "moral rights" include the right of the author always to have his or her name associated with the work and the right to have the integrity of the work protected such that it is not changed in a way that could result in reputational harm. Read more...
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Osez la VAE dans l’enseignement supérieur !
Trouvez, dans la Région PACA (Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur) et dans toute la France, l'Université qui vous permettra de valider vos acquis dans l’enseignement supérieur.
En Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, cinq établissements peuvent valider vos acquis dans l’enseignement supérieur :
- Aix-Marseille Université,
- Université d'Avignon,
- Université Nice Sophia Antipolis,
- Université de Toulon,
- CNAM-PACA.
Voir les détails et les coordonnées de ces établissements dans l'article Trouvez l'Université où vous pourrez valider vos acquis.
En France, plus de 80 autres universités peuvent valider vos acquis dans l’enseignement supérieur : Université Angers, Université d'Artois, Université d'Auvergne, Université de technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard, Université Blaise Pascal - Clermont-Ferrand, Université de Bordeaux, Université Bordeaux 1 - Sciences Technologies, Université Bordeaux Segalen, Université Montesquieu - Bordeaux IV, Université Bordeaux Montaigne, Université de Bourgogne, RéUniva4, Université Européenne de Bretagne (UEB), Université de Bretagne Occidentale (UBO), Université de Bretagne-Sud (UBS), Université Caen Basse-Normandie, Université de Cergy-Pontoise, Centre Universitaire Jean-François Champollion (CUFR), Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (CNAM), Université de technologie de Compiègne, Università di Corsica Pasquale Paoli, Université d'Évry-Val d'Essonne, Université de Franche-Comté, Université de Grenoble, Université Joseph-Fourier - Grenoble 1, Université Pierre-Mendès-France, Université Stendhal-Grenoble 3, Université de Haute-Alsace - Mulhouse-Colmar, Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (INALCO), Université de La Réunion, Université de La Rochelle, Université du Havre, Université Lille 1 - Sciences et Technologies, Universite Lille 2 - Droit et Santé, Université Charles de Gaulle - Lille 3, Universite de Limoges, Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale, Université de Lorraine, Université Claude-Bernard Lyon 1, Université Lumière Lyon 2, Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, Université du Maine, Université Montpellier 1, Université Montpellier 2 Sciences et Techniques, Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, Université de Nantes, Université de Nîmes, Université de la Nouvelle-Calédonie, Université d'Orléans, Université Paris-1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris 2), Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3, Université Paris-Sorbonne, Université Paris Descartes, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Université Paris Diderot Paris 7, Université Paris 8, Université Paris-Dauphine, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne, Université Paris 13 Nord, Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Université de Poitiers, Université de la Polynésie française, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, Université Rennes 1, Université Rennes 2, Université Jean Monnet Saint-Étienne, Université de Savoie, Université de Strasbourg, Université Toulouse 1 Capitole, Université de Toulouse II - Le Mirail, Université Toulouse III – Paul Sabatier, Université François-Rabelais de Tours, Université de Technologie de Troyes, Université de Valenciennes et du Hainaut-Cambrésis, Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines.