The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) recently released a report on The Employment Status of Instructional Staff Members in Higher Education.
The report reveals that the growth in contingent faculty is much greater than the growth in tenured faculty, a story all-too-familiar to Canadian professors and academic librarians.
Between 1989 and 2011, the total number of faculty grew by 81 per cent, but the growth was mostly in the ranks of the continently employed.
There were more than twice as many non-tenured full-time faculty and more than two and a half times the number of part-time faculty by 2011. See more...

When thirty percent of all international students would find a job in their host country, they would soon become a net contributor to the economy, research by the ‘German Academic Exchange Service shows. However, differences exist between countries, in Germany it will take 5 years, in Switzerland 17.
Countries benefit significantly from value creation resulting from student mobility. However, international students do not pay off immediately, it depends on the study costs, the place of study and the percentage of students that stay after their study and find a job. Yet, the country’s economy benefits directly from an increased consumer spending, researchers from the German Academic Exchange Service and Prognos concluded in the report “The Financial Impact of Cross-Border Student Mobility on the Economy of the Host Country”. Besides Germany, the researchers studied the Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Switzerland and Spain. More...

By Vincenzo Raimo. Unless student loans are made available for study overseas, studying a whole degree abroad will be limited to the very well-off or super bright. Study abroad is the thing of the moment: last year, we had the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) Industrial strategy for international education talking about the government's "ambition to increase the number of UK students gaining valuable experience through overseas mobility placements". More...

By Manash Pratim Gohain. Even good students in Class X, who are eligible for science or commerce, are not shying from humanities and social sciences at the senior secondary level. This is not just because of the plentiful and interesting career opportunities they bring to you but also because, everywhere, the liberal arts seem to be finally getting their due importance. Two private universities recently came up exclusively for liberal arts. In 2007 Delhi got its own in the form of Ambedkar University.
Rise in interest for humanities is evident from the fact that schools which didn't have these subjects have now started offering them and others have increased their intake. There was no humanities stream at Amity International School in Saket and Noida three years ago. The Indian School, which has over 25 students in the humanities section, had just three students in 2007-08. More...

By Mami Maruko. Two of the most popular English-language proficiency tests in Japan can no longer be used to obtain student visas to Britain after a British TV program exposed fraud in the test-taking process.
The visa ban applies to the TOEIC (Test of English for International Communication) and the TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language), said Educational Testing Service, the U.S.-based company that runs the tests, last week. More...

La transition énergétique est un enjeu majeur pour l’environnement, l’emploi et la justice sociale dans la région PACA.
Alors qu’une loi sera proposée au Parlement cette année, la région Provence Alpes Côte d’Azur prend déjà toute sa part dans l’accompagnement de la transition énergétique, à travers ses politiques de développement économique, de formation professionnelle et d’apprentissage, de trains régionaux, de soutien aux filières du bâtiment durable et des énergies renouvelables…