Le 31 mai 2018, les acteurs de l’orientation professionnelle sont invités à travailler deux questions autour de l’entreprise : Comment des entreprises attirent et intègrent des personnes éloignées de leurs métiers ? Comment évoquer l’entreprise et favoriser les opportunités lorsqu’on est professionnel du Spro. Plus...
Dispositif d'insertion professionnelle "1 000 réfugiés"
Pour les migrants qui ont obtenu leurs papiers, l’accès au marché du travail ressemble souvent à un parcours du combattant. Le dispositif Hébergement, orientation parcours vers l’emploi (Hope) dont l’expérimentation porte sur 1 000 réfugiés vise essentiellement l’insertion. En Pays de la Loire, 82 réfugiés ont intégré à ce jour, ce parcours qui associe hébergement, accompagnement social, découverte des métiers et formation professionnelle. Plus...
La Rubrique Organisme de formation fait peau neuve !
Destinée aux organismes de formation, cette rubrique a été repensée afin d’offrir davantage de services tout en un. À partir de "l’accès pro" puis "Organisme de formation" du site Orientation Pays de la Loire, ce sont six onglets qui présentent des ressources pour les professionnels. Plus...
What happened and what’s next: mid-term evaluation of the Erasmus+ programme
The programme’s most recent version, Erasmus+, began in 2014 with a budget of €16.45 billion for the period 2014–2020. It aims to provide more than four million people with the “opportunity to gain competence and have a personal socio-educational and professional development through personal training, work experiences or volunteering abroad worldwide”. More...
Ranking of Japanese Universities
Times Higher Education (THE) has published the second edition of its Japan University Rankings. In joint first place are Kyoto University and the University of Tokyo while some less well-known institutions such as Akita International University, the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies and Nagoya University of Commerce and Business have performed well in the Environment group of indicators. More...
New Rating System for India
A new higher education rating system for India has just been announced. The QS I-GAUGE is a joint venture of Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) and the ERA Foundation, Benguluru. It is currently in the pilot stage and is based on the QS Stars international audit system. More...
Hard to make money on rankings
One of the greatest misapprehensions about rankings –wrote Alex Usher – is that rankers are “just doing it for the money”. For the most part, this is wrong. It’s really hard to make money at rankings. Not surprisingly, only about half of all rankings are done for commercial reasons. More...
US News Publishes 2019 Best Grad School Rankings
The US News has just published its 2019 rankings of US graduate programmes in six disciplines: business, education, engineering, law, medicine, and nursing. More rankings of doctoral programmes in fields such as biological sciences, chemistry and computer science will follow later in the year. More...
Game research ranking
A total of 23 countries are represented here. The largest number of institutions are located in the United States and there are nine in Japan and the Netherlands, eight in the UK and Canada, four in Australia and Portugal, and three in Sweden, Germany, Italy and France. There are none in Africa, the Middle East, Russia or China and only one in Latin America. Three multinational organisations, Google, IBM and Ubisoft, are included. More...
New Voting Indicator for Washington Monthly rankings
University rankings have tended to emphasise research or indicators such as resources, selectivity and reputation. In addition to research the Washington Post college rankings in the USA attempt to measure contributions to the public good. Indicators include the number of students joining the Peace Corps and Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC), federal funds spent on service, graduation rates, and the percentage of students receiving Pell grants. More...