By Yojana Sharma. While focused on their own citizens and areas, the growth in regional and national groups means the global network of community-engaged universities is also growing, including the network of networks, known as the Talloires Network which is holding its 2014 Talloires Network Leaders Conference in South Africa from 2-4 December. Read more...

By Wagdy Sawahel. Although the foreign-born population from Africa in the US is small relative to other foreign-born groups, a higher proportion of Africans are graduates than the overall foreign-born population and their numbers have grown rapidly over the past 40 years.
This was outlined in a US Census Bureau report, The foreign-born population from Africa: 2008-2012. Read more...

A Polish entrepreneur and data scientist, Marcin Wojnarski, has launched what he says is the first multi-disciplinary aggregator of open access journals and papers. Wojnarski says that his firm, Paperity, will connect authors with readers, boost dissemination of new discoveries and consolidate academia around open literature.
The company holds more than 160,000 articles from 2,000 scholarly journals and the number is growing. Wojnarski says the goal of his team is to cover 100% of open access literature in three years. Read more...

By Gilbert Nganga. A showdown is looming in Kenya’s higher education system following a government directive that universities should stop offering diploma and certificate courses from next year.
Education Cabinet Secretary Jacob Kaimenyi gave the order last week, saying such courses should be left to technical and tertiary colleges. Read more...

By Alexandra Hansen. Bachelor-degree graduates from Australia’s prestigious Group of Eight, or Go8, and technology universities earn a greater amount over their lifetimes than those from the lesser known and regional universities, according to a new analysis that found their total income was 6% more over a 40-year career. Read more...

By Beckie Supiano, The Chronicle of Higher Education. Campuses’ career counsellors have been seeing encouraging signs, and now a major survey of employers backs them up: The coming year looks to be a much better one for new graduates seeking jobs. Read more...

Réforme de la formation professionnelle
Tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur la nouvelle loi
La loi relative à la formation professionnelle à l'emploi et à la démocratie sociale a été promulguée le 5 mars 2014.
Retrouver les points forts de cette réforme, les références textuelles et les dates d’application dans notre tableau synthétique.
Nous tiendrons régulièrement à jour ce tableau au fur et à mesure de la parution des décrets.
Pour en savoir plus : l’essentiel de la réforme de la formation professionnelle.