Le PACTE ou Parcours d'Accès aux Carrières des Trois fonctions publiques s'adresse aux jeunes de 16 à 26 ans de faible niveau de qualification. Il leur permet d'être recrutés sur des emplois de catégorie C dans la fonction publique de l'Etat, la fonction publique territoriale ou la fonction publique hospitalière. Voir l'article...
Jusqu’au lendemain de la deuxième guerre mondiale, la population étudiante est un groupe minoritaire, relativement homogène, puisque largement issu des classes supérieures de la population. Ces caractéristiques ont évolué singulièrement à partir des années 1960 : explosion de la démographie étudiante, féminisation, multiplication des filières et plus large professionnalisation des études. En 1994, le sociologue François Dubet estime qu’il est difficile de définir l’étudiant des années 1990 parce qu’aucun type idéal nouveau n’a succédé à celui de "l’Héritier" (selon Pierre Bourdieu, Gérard Passeron, in « Les Héritiers, les étudiants et la culture », 1964). Dans les années 2000, l’enseignement supérieur recrute dans toutes les classes sociales mais les inégalités dans l’accès aux études supérieures et les parcours persistent.
Public access to federally-funded research took one move forward with the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs’ vote to support the Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act of 2015 (FASTR). More...
By Stefanie Botelho. It might be difficult to believe that by 2020, the US alone will be three million college graduates short of what projections say the economy will need. By 2025, that number could skyrocket to 16 million. Making college exclusive and expensive is not the answer the global economy needs, but that’s the trend in current budget climates. It doesn’t have to be this way. More...
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. It might be difficult to believe that by 2020, the U.S. alone will be three million college graduates short of what projections say the economy will need. More...
By Matt Reed. The twentieth century gave “re-education camps” a bad name.
(I can’t imagine anyone quoting that out of context…)
But short-term college programs for people who already have bachelor’s degrees (or higher) are looking like the new hot ticket for community colleges and for-profit providers. Read more...
The number of low-income students who meet key college-readiness benchmarks remained flat among 2014 high school graduates who took the ACT, according to a new report from ACT and the National Council for Community and Education Partnerships. Read more...
By George Williams. For a number of years now, the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) have been seen by many as the international gold standard for making online resources as accessible as possible. Published by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), these standards are likely to continue evolving as the technologies we use also continue evolving; the current version of the WCAG is 2.0. Read more.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
