L'agence Europe-Education-Formation France et le Céreq ont signé en cette rentrée une convention de partenariat.
Cette convention permettra une meilleure collboration entre les deux structures. Elle aura pour objet, notamment, deux projets d'envergure :

• une enquête dite "Génération"
• une étude sur le nombre et l'impact des études à l'international chez jeunes Français.

Ce partenariat permettra de mieux étudier l'impact des programmes européens sur ses bénéficiaires, en terme d'acquisition de compétences et de connaissance. Voir l'article...

The New York Times is preparing “a new ranking of colleges and universities based on their ability to attract underprivileged kids”. The background to the proposed rating is the concern that established rankings such as the US News and World Report’s (USNWR) America’s Best Colleges encourage universities to put too much emphasis on recruiting outstanding faculty and keeping class sizes low. As a result, institutions may neglect to provide adequate support for students from disadvantaged backgrounds.
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Chronicle of Higher Education. More...

By Mark Keese of the OECD Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs. Six years after the start of the financial crisis, employment still hasn’t got back to pre-2007 levels in many countries, and for many people working conditions have got worse, according to the OECD’s Employment Outlook 2014, released today. Talk of ‘sovereign defaults’ and the whole system unravelling has faded, but – at a personal level – the conversation of the Great Recession has become one about job loss amongst family and friends, cutbacks at work, falling wages, under-employment, insecurity, and what this means for simply trying to make ends meet. More...

EUA monitors European-level developments at the interface of the Bologna Process and the EU Directive on the recognition of professional qualifications.
The latest update on developments – which has been posted on the EUA website – follows EUA’s recent briefing note on the amended Directive (2013/55/EU) that was published at the end of December 2013.
The latest update deals with developments in the Bologna Process, the EU institutions, and professional, academic and regulatory bodies; it makes particular reference to the sectoral professions (including medical doctor, dentist, general care nurse, pharmacist and architect).
Please click here to read more on professional qualifications. More...