L'académie de Paris propose en ligne un Guide des compétences clés, destiné aux acteurs du champ de l’éducation et de la formation : prescripteurs de formations (entreprises, OPCA, institutions et professionnels de l’insertion et de l’emploi…) et concepteurs et/ou animateurs de formations (responsables d’organismes de formation, enseignants, formateurs…).
Consulter le guide. Voir l'article...
By Fatma Mili - EvoLLLution. Competency-based education is such an intuitive and appealing concept that once we consider it, we start wondering, “Why did we wait so long?”
In competency-based education, students earn a degree upon demonstrating competency in their chosen field of study rather than upon spending 120 credit hours in school. More...
By . Chapter 5 of my open textbook, ‘Teaching in a Digital Age‘, is now published. In Chapter 5, I developed the concept of a learning environment.By Natalie Samson. Mygradskills.ca will help students to succeed, whether they pursue a career in academia or not, say developers.
The Ontario Consortium for Graduate Professional Skills Training, or GPS, launched Mygradskills.ca on Sept. 7. The site offers graduate students and postdoctoral scholars at Ontario universities access to 18 free, self-paced modules on topics such as research management, converting a CV to a resumé, mentoring undergrads, mental health and wellness, and a primer on intellectual property. More...
By Michelle R. Weise. With A’s doled out in almost half of all undergraduate courses—compared to only 15 percent in 1961— have grades become meaningless?
Ten years ago, Princeton University began limiting the A-range awards in each course to 35 percent. In recent news, the university is likely to reverse efforts to curb grade inflation and instead allow academic departments to set their own grading standards. More...
By Graeme Paton. A major international study by the OECD finds that just a quarter of UK graduates display high-level literacy skills – significantly behind countries such as Japan and Finland. Read more...
By Lizzy Davies and Peter Walker. Report says university graduates in the southern Europea are less skilled than high school leavers in Japan and Holland. University graduates in Italy and Spain have been singled out as having particularly low basic skills by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) as it warned that the picture "fit" with high unemployment levels in the southern European countries. Read more...
Les présidents des conférences de présidents d’université allemande, française et polonaise souhaiteraient commenter la probable future structure de la Commission Européenne, en particulier en ce qui concerne le Commissaire en charge de l’enseignement supérieur. Tout en étant pleinement conscients que les indications communiquées sont encore provisoires, nous aimerions faire entendre notre profonde inquiétude quant à l’intention de créer un portefeuille de Commissaire portant sur ‘’les Compétences, la Jeunesse et le Multilinguisme’’.
Nous sommes, en effet, convaincus que le remplacement du terme ’’éducation’’ par celui de ‘’compétences’’ enverrait un signal négatif et erroné.
Notre intime conviction est que le futur portefeuille du Commissaire (et la Direction Générale qui lui est associée) devrait continuer à proposer le terme ‘’éducation’’ dans son intitulé.
Professeur Jean-Loup SALZMANN, Président, Conférence des Présidents d'Université (CPU)
Professeur Horst HIPPLER, Président, Hochschulrektorenkonferenz (HRK)
Professeur Wieslaw BANYS, Président, Konferencja Rektorów Akademickich Szkół Polskich (KRASP). Voir l'article...
By Andreas Schleicher Deputy Director and Special Advisor on Education Policy to the OECD's Secretary-General. When Norway makes the front page, the focus is usually on the country’s vast natural resources which have generated the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund. In today’s economic climate, this is definitely good news.
Yet if you look beyond the headlines there is little room for complacency. Norway faces slowing productivity growth in the mainland economy, high labour costs and modest levels of entrepreneurship and innovation. Read more...
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