ORGANISED BY : The EAN (European Access Network)
MAIN THEMES:to raise awareness of the obstacles hindering participation and success in post-secondary education and of effective action to remove them in diverse global settings, to inform key political leaders about the latest thinking and practices from around the world on how to significantly improve access to, and success in, post-secondary education
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Accès à l'emploi
Accords nationaux interprofessionnels (ANI) 2011 sur l’emploi des jeunes
Contrat d'autonomie

• DARES : Le contrat d’autonomie, mise en œuvre par les opérateurs et profils des bénéficiaires - Février 2011

Contrat d'insertion dans la vie sociale (CIVIS)

• DARES : Le contrat d’insertion dans la vie sociale (Civis) : moins d’emploi à la sortie du Civis en 2009 et 2010 - Janvier 2012

Parrainage

• Guide pratique 2003 Parrainage pour l'emploi (PDF)

Les missions locales s'engagent pour l'alternance
Grâce à la signature de la « Charte de mobilisation pour favoriser l’accès aux contrats en alternance des jeunes accompagnés par les missions locales » signée en septembre 2011, la ministre chargée de l’apprentissage et de la formation professionnelle à fait des missions locales « un acteur reconnu et incontournable de l’alternance ».

• La Charte de mobilisation pour favoriser l’accès des jeunes aux contrats en alternance des jeunes accompagnés par les missions locales
• Bernard Perrut souhaite que 50 000 jeunes des missions locales accèdent à un contrat en alternance
• Le portail de l'alternance

Liens utiles

Two weeks ago the University of California system-wide Faculty Senate announced that they have passed an open access policy for all 10 campuses. The policy covers 8000 tenure-track faculty, and as many as 40,000 papers annually, making up 2-3% of the worldwide scholarly journal content. More details (and some videos of me looking really tired) are here.
This is a major success. It’s a huge university system, with an unusually powerful federal faculty governance system, and getting any organization that large to do anything forward thinking is itself a triumph, and I’m proud to have been part of it. The policy commits faculty to making their work available using the California Digital Library’s eScholarship platform, or any other open access repository. It will begin on Nov. 1st, and will roll out first at UCLA and UCI, in addition to UCSF which passed a policy in May of 2012.
There has been some attention to this policy in the news media (at the Chronicle, Reason, the Daily Cal at CDE, and a nice Atlantic article that makes the point that open access is crucial to making Wikipedia more reliable). More...

A record number of students have already been accepted on to university courses, official figures show. As of midnight on Wednesday, 385,910 applicants had been accepted by UK universities and colleges - 31,600 more than at the same point last year, a rise of 9%.
The admissions service Ucas said it is the highest number of acceptances ever recorded on A-level results day. The figures come as students across England, Wales and Northern Ireland receive their results, with many also due to learn whether they have won a coveted place at university. More...

By Graeme Paton. Top universities are discriminating against private school pupils by engineering admissions in favour of teenagers from the state system, according to the head of Britain’s biggest independent schools group. Institutions are attempting to drive down recruitment from the fee-paying sector to satisfy Government demands for a more socially-balanced student body, it is claimed.
Barnaby Lenon, chairman of the Independent Schools Council, said the creation of specific targets that discriminate between state and private school pupils were “wrong” and actually risked favouring affluent children from “middle-class comprehensives”. An analysis by the Telegraph shows that 11 out of 20 members of the elite Russell Group want to increase admissions from state schools over the next five years. This includes Cambridge, Durham, Exeter, King’s College London, the London School of Economics and Warwick. One institution – University College London – has pledged to boost the number of places awarded to state-educated entrants by 10 per cent by 2016. More...

By Ellen Collins. Paywalls may not be the only barrier we need to overcome if the public is to benefit from academic research, says Ellen Collins. I hit a career high when my research on university library data recently appeared in the Guardian education pages. However, my initial surge of excitement was tempered slightly when I saw the journalist hadn't provided references to my actual study and significantly when I realised the single finding she'd quoted was – to put it charitably – not very reliable. My feelings on browsing the comments section can't really be articulated in a family news outlet, but it was clear that many people had picked up an incomplete understanding of how and why the research was being done. But the worst part of the experience was this: I had blogged the whole project – background, rationale, false starts, findings, corrections – openly online. Aren't these misunderstandings exactly the kind of problem that openness is supposed to prevent? More...

1st World Congress on Access to Post-Secondary Education - 7th - 10th October 2013, Montreal, Canada   
Online registration now open - click here to go to the registration site!  (Simultaneous translation in French and Spanish available for plenary sessions).
Introducing the World Congress Series on Access to Post-secondary Education    
"Connecting the Unconnected"
We aim to make a tangible impact on rates of participation and success in post-secondary pathways wherever youth and adults are held back by poverty, birth and other economic and social circumstances.
The number of people participating in post-secondary education has risen globally over recent decades, but participating successfully still remains beyond the reach of many. New efforts are needed to tackle the factors that continue to hinder successful participation. The World Congress Series aims to spark a new global movement to advance opportunities in post-secondary education for all people, wherever they live or whatever their background. Our goal is to 'connect the unconnected' for collective impact. This also means addressing inadequate primary and secondary education and opportunities for adult learning.    
The first of three World Congresses will take place in Montreal, Canada in October 2013 (with two more occurring in 2015 and 2017 in different countries). The Congress will give a strong voice for students and young people and will be informed and shaped by a series of virtual and live International Student Forums (ISF) in different regions of the world. It will end with an Agenda for Action and a series of experimental projects that will be the fulcrum for work by the movement across all continents. With other global, national and local activities in between the three major events, the World Congress series will progressively build and enact an agenda for change.    
The Congress is an initiatve of the European Access Network. More information can be found on the World Congress website: www.eanworldcongress.org.

23rd Annual Conference, University of Edinburgh, Scotland  2-5 June 2014
The EAN annual conference represents a unique international experience of diversity in action. Hosted each year by a different member institution or organisation in Europe, the conference brings together policy-makers, academics, practitioners, researchers, and administrators from around the world to address key issues in access and widening participation, diversity and inclusion. It also engages the participation of students, student support services, student organisations and employers.
Our annual conference provides a platform and opportunity for those committed to equity, diversity and inclusion to discuss and debate topical issues, learn from one another, develop initiatives and make new European and international contacts. In particular it aims:

• To stimulate European and international collaboration to widen access and participation
• To share experiences and promote good practice in creating an inclusive higher education
• To disseminate research findings to a wider audience
• To contribute to the development of equitable tertiary education systems in Europe and beyond

The Access Evolution: Adapt to Survive?
June 2013, 22nd Annual Conference at the Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France
Access to Higher Education: Is It a Right, a Privilege, or a Necessity
June 2012, 21st Annual Conference at University of Zagreb, Croatia
Student Diversity in Higher Education: Conflicting Realities
June 2011, 20th Anniversary Conference at VU University in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
From Access to Success: Closing the Knowledge Divide
June 2010, 19th Annual Conference at Södertörn University in Stockholm, Sweden
Past Conferences.