Dans l'attente de l'habiltation des nouveaux organismes collecteurs de la taxe d'apprentissage (voir notre info), l'agrément national de cinq organismes est prorogé jusqu'au 31 décembre 2015.
Il s'agit de de l'Association pour le développement de la formation professionnelle dans les transports, de l'Union nationale des industries de carrières et matériaux de la construction, de l'Association française de forge et de l'Association des syndicats de la distribution et de la maintenance des matériels.
Arrêtés du 29 août 2014 (JO du 10/9/14). Voir l'article...

La Préfète de région et le Président du conseil régional ont organisé le 9 septembre 2014, une conférence régionale sur l'alternance qui s'est tenue à la maison de la région Poitou-Charentes. Ils considèrent que l’alternance, et en particulier, l’apprentissage, constitue une voie d’excellence d’insertion durable vers l’emploi. Voir l'article...

Le CNFPT et le conseil National Emploi Formation Orientation Professionnelle (CNEFOP) organisent avec l’appui technique du Réseau des Carif Oref, un séminaire à Paris le 3 octobre 2014, dans le cadre de rencontres territoriales de la formation professionnelle. Le thème sera : Emploi, formation, trajectoires professionnelles, quels enjeux et quelles gouvernances pour les territoires et les citoyens ?
Télécharger le bulletin d'inscription et le programme complet. Voir l'article...

By David Watson. By international standards, British universities have extraordinarily high levels of autonomy. They control all of their assets, they employ their own staff, renew their own leadership and governors and can enter freely into contracts. They are formally masters of their own fate.
In practice, of course, this autonomy has gone along with dependence on government-originated contracts for teaching, research and other services, that impose their own conditions. As a consequence, higher education institutions have learned to lobby – individually and collectively – for their share of public funding. More...

India has emerged as the least expensive destination for foreign education, while Australia is the costliest, according to an HSBC report.
According to the report, the average annual cost including university fees and living expenditure of an undergraduate international student in India is around $5,642 per annum, while for Australia it is as high as $42,093 a year.
Indian education costs are the least among 15 countries surveyed and the costs are lesser than those in Turkey. Read more...

By Shujie Leng. Netizens want Chinese money to fund Chinese schools, but the country's billionaires have reason to hesitate. On the morning of September 8, Harvard University celebrated what school President Drew Gilpin Faust called an historic moment after it received a $350 million gift from a wealthy Hong Kong family. The gift, to the Harvard School of Public Health, is the largest ever in the university's 378 years of history. It may sound like a victory for Chinese soft power, but many Chinese netizens are angry that the money isn't being directed toward domestic concerns. More...

By David Ng. Every year, I usually find myself speaking in at least one lecture hall full of first-year university students. And every year, I ask them the same question: “Do you know who Chewbacca is?” This, I do because I happen to be a fan of Star Wars, and also because I use it as my own silly (and flawed) index of how a person’s knowledge base can change from year to year to year. More...

By Allison Sekuler. Flashback 20 years ago to little Janey’s first day at kindergarten: She was bright-eyed and filled with dreams. She could be a scientist, a writer, a builder…. More...