By Steven Mintz. Yes, although such units are difficult to sustain.
The notion that any headline that ends with a question mark can be answered by the word “no” – a maxim known as Betteridge’s Law – is not always right. University systems can benefit greatly from a central innovation unit. Unfortunately, such units are exceptionally difficult to sustain. More...
L'Université d'Hiver de la Formation Professionnelle (UHFP) aura lieu à Biarritz du 31 janvier au 2 février 2018, sur le thème Compétences, transitions, pratiques : le défi de l'innovation, sous le haut patronage de Monsieur Emmanuel MACRON, Président de la République et en présence de Madame Muriel PENICAUD, Ministre du Travail.
Organisée par Centre Inffo - association sous tutelle du ministère en charge de la Formation professionnelle - tous les 2 ans, l'UHFP est le rendez-vous incontournable des acteurs et des professionnels de la formation : partenaires sociaux, OPCA, Pôle-Emploi, APEC, représentants des pouvoirs publics, entreprises, etc. (35 institutions et réseaux partenaires - 160 personnalités et experts).
L'innovation dans le champ de l'orientation-formation, pourquoi, pour qui ? Que peut-elle apporter de concret aux citoyens, aux professionnels, aux territoires ? Autant de questions-clés au cœur du millésime 2018 de l'Université d'hiver de la formation professionnelle.
Nouveauté de l'édition 2018 : la remise des premiers Innov'Trophées, en partenariat avec le FPSPP (4 catégories de prix) et l'agence Eramus+ Education Formation France (projets de coopération européenne).
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I love my cell phone. It’s sleek, fits in my too-small girl-pants pockets, and comes out largely unscathed every time I unintentionally throw it on the ground. Throughout the course of graduate school it has slowly become an extension of my hand: I anxiously search for it when I forget where I left it, and I incessantly lock and unlock it using the fancy fingerprint reader when I’m fidgeting before a seminar. More...
My first semester as a teaching assistant, I was required to take a course on pedagogy. Teaching your first class can be incredibly intimidating. From preparing notes to deciding what methods work best for your material and class, the list of issues to consider seems endless. More...
Now I would like to take a moment to highlight intangible gifts that graduate students (secretly) crave. The following gifts are free. However, they can be quite time and labor intensive—full disclosure. More...
It's pretty common for academics to talk about gaps in the literature. We want to find them, right? If we find a gap, that's a spot where we can do some work, as long as it's an area that will be of interest to other researchers in our fields. More...
If the best dissertation is a finished dissertation, as the saying goes, is the best doctorate simply the one that is over and done with. More...
Graduate student instructors sometimes operate under a lot of external constraints, because they do not have much control over the curriculum they are being asked to teach. That can make receiving an accommodation notification from a student rather fraught. More...
While the 2017 national average for graduate degrees shows that about 9.3% of the population has a masters degree, 2% a doctoral, and 1.5% a professional, graduate education amongst Black people is lower than their white and Asian counterparts according to a 2016 census on educational attainment. More...
Employing an alternative genre essay to improve student writing. More...
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