By Dianne Lynch. A year ago, in February 2014, the metrics on journalism education were trending in worrisome directions. Enrollments were down at some of the most prestigious programs in the country for the second year in a row, and a Poynter Institute study revealed that journalism faculty members viewed their programs as far more central to the journalistic enterprise than their professional colleagues did. More troubling, almost 40 percent of educators themselves acknowledged that their programs were not keeping pace with changes in the industry. More...

By Ashfaq Yusufzai. Educationists have opposed the prime minister’s orders for revision of the curriculum of schools, colleges and universities insisting after the passage of 18th Constitutional Amendment, it was the domain of the provincial governments and not the centre.
“Policy, planning, curriculum and governance have devolved to provinces after the 18th Constitutional Amendment, so the provinces can make changes to curriculum in line with their own needs. The centre can’t interfere in such matters,” Khadim Hussain, the managing director of Bacha Khan Trust Educational Foundation (BKTEF), told Dawn. More...

The Universitat Oberta de Catalunya’s (UOC) UNESCO Chair in Education & Technology for Social Change has published a a ‘call for demonstrations’ for its International Seminar entitled “Revisiting the fundamentals of traditional curricula. R / Evolution: what “R” would mean for education”, that will take place in Barcelona from 1 to 2 December 2014.
More specific information on the call, and format of presentations, is available on this website. The deadline for proposals is 30 September 2014. More...

Par Véronique Soulé. INTERVIEW - Selon la sociologue Agnès van Zanten, le taux de réussite global cache une ségrégation par l’orientation. La sociologue Agnès van Zanten, directrice de recherche au CNRS, explique en quoi le système des filières, et donc du bac, est inégalitaire en France.
Peut-on dire que l’école s’est démocratisée, mais pas le bac ?
Incontestablement, il y a eu une démocratisation quantitative du bac. Dans les années 80-90, on a assisté à une augmentation très rapide du taux d’accès, même si l’on constate un net tassement depuis quelques années. Parallèlement, le taux de réussite n’a cessé de progresser. Suite...