By Abby Young-Powell. What exactly does it take to run a successful rent protest? Student activists explain it’s all about strength in numbers. More...
26 novembre 2016
26 novembre 2016
Grad Students And The Law
By Patrick Bigsby. Graduate students lead busy academic lives, doing things like performing original research and negotiating contracts. Graduate students also lead busy personal lives, doing things like getting married and renting apartments. Despite their professional status, most graduate students have yet to start to earn professional salaries and, consequently, are left with few options when leases go south, patents are in dispute, and other legal problems arise. Read more...
20 novembre 2016
Partenariat inédit pour l'accès à des étudiants normands au statut d'entrepreneur-salarié
L'EM Normandie et Créacoop 14, coopérative d'activités et d'emplois (CAE), signent un partenariat inédit en France, offrant la possibilité aux étudiants de l'école candidats à la création d'entreprise d'accéder au statut d'entrepreneur-salarié. Ils peuvent développer leur activité sans créer d'entreprise, tout en bénéficiant d'un statut de salarié en CDI et d'un cadre juridique, comptable et social sécurisant leur avenir.
Depuis la rentrée 2016, les étudiants de l'incubateur-école InsIDE peuvent intégrer Créacoop 14, quel que soit leur campus d'affectation (Caen, Le Havre, Paris, Oxford). Pendant les six premiers mois, ils bénéficient d'un Contrat d'Appui au Projet d'Entreprise (CAPE) pour travailler sur leurs projets. Si les indicateurs sont positifs, ils signent ensuite un contrat de travail en CDI leur conférant le statut d'entrepreneur-salarié et disposent de 30 mois pour aboutir, le cas échéant, à la création de leur startup. Voir l'article...
20 novembre 2016
HERE-ES Project - Peer learning activity on Student-centred Learning
The Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport MECD in collaboration with the Spanish Quality Agency ANECA, the European Association of Quality Agencies ENQA, the Spanish Conference of Rectors CRUE and the European Student Union ESU is organizing a Peer Learning Activity PLA on Student-Centred Learning in Alcalá de Henares a historic town around 34 kilometers away from Madrid at the premises of University of Alcalá on 7 – 8 April 2016. More...12 novembre 2016
Placing the student at the center
By Scott A. Bass. American University utilizes more than 36 databases for different student-related administrative and learning management functions. Each data system was designed to serve the professional needs of discrete administrative units and is maintained and updated as needed. More...
12 novembre 2016
What causes mind blanks during exams?
By and . It’s a pattern many of us have likely experienced in the past.
You prep for an exam and all the information seems coherent and simple. Then you sit for an exam and suddenly all the information you learned is gone. You struggle to pull something up – anything – but the harder you fight, the further away the information feels. The dreaded mind blank. More...
10 novembre 2016
Les effectifs étudiants dans les regroupements d'établissements en 2015-2016 - Note d'information n°8 - novembre 2016
Les regroupements d’établissements ont été initiés par la loi de 2013 sur l’enseignement supérieur et la recherche. Aujourd’hui, près de 200 établissements sont concernés, que ce soit sous la forme d’une communauté d’universités et établissements (Comue) ou d’une association. Cette recomposition du paysage de l’enseignement supérieur concerne 1 690 000 étudiants à la rentrée 2015, soit plus des deux tiers de l’ensemble des étudiants.
27 octobre 2016
Quiz: Do Students Know Feedback Helps Improve Their Writing?
Submitted by Tim Goral. Feedback is essential to improving writing skills, but do students understand the value of reading the comments instructors leave them? Share this short, online quiz with students to help them understand the power of feedback and how it can improve their writing performance and grades. More...
14 octobre 2016
CALOHEE Advisory Board Meeting: Partners move forward in measuring learning outcomes
CALOHEE’s main focus is on the the skills needed to prepare for the labour market, but furthermore on the role that the student later plays in society, after completing first and/or second cycle degree programmes. During the meeting, participating institutions were invited to complete a questionnaire focusing on modes of assessment for each of the five subject areas involved (Civil Engineering, Education and Teacher Training, History, Nursing and Physics). More...
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