Sur le blog de Michel Abhervé pour Alternatives économiques. Dans le Rapport relatif à la lutte contre les discriminations et à la prise en compte de la diversité de la société française dans la fonction publique nous trouvons un certain nombre d'informations sur le programme PACTE dont les effectifs tournent autour de 300 personnes/an, selon ce rapport qui donne d'ailleurs des chiffres nettement plus élevés que ceux que publie la DARES dans le cadre des POEM. Plus...
The Value of Foundation Years in Higher Education
Whatever one may think of the Augar report and its varied recommendations, it appears to have focused generally on the right questions and to have appropriately considered existing research and evidence. More...
Does Augar present ‘evidence-based policy’, or ‘policy-based evidence’?
As someone with experience with independent reviews of higher education, I understand the energy and effort that panel members and officials put into such exercises. MillionPlus as a mission group inputted constructively into the Augar review process, submitting three tranches of written evidence. More...
Disturbing report into racism at UK universities is a wake-up call
Your reporting on racism in British universities (Revealed: the scale of racism at universities, 6 July) is disturbing and demands action from everyone working and studying in higher education, most importantly those of us leading institutions. More...
International Students Report Worries About Gun Violence
By Elizabeth Redden. A quarter of international students attending U.S. colleges report worrying about gun violence at their institution, while 37 percent say they worry about gun violence in the local community, according to a new survey of current international students and recent graduates conducted by the credential evaluation organization World Education Services that garnered 1,921 responses. More...
Russian Scientists Instructed to Report on Foreign Colleagues
By Elizabeth Redden. New recommendations from Russia's Ministry of Science and Higher Education instruct scientists to seek advance permission to meet with foreign colleagues and to report on those meetings, The New York Times reported. More...
Trump Overstated Academic Record, Report Says
By Andrew Kreighbaum. When President Trump applied to transfer from Fordham University to the more prestigious Wharton School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania in 1966, he interviewed with an admissions officer who was a close friend of his older brother, Fred Trump Jr. More...
Report Finds Limited Information on Short-Term Training
By Andrew Kreighbaum. A new report from the Institute for College Access and Success warns that little is known about the results of short-term postsecondary education and training programs that might become eligible for Pell Grants should Congress reduce minimum program-length requirements. More...
Report Says More Data Needed on Nondegree Credentials
By Andrew Kreighbaum. As lawmakers debate expanding Pell Grant eligibility to short-term programs, a new report from the Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations released Thursday urges more efforts to collect data on the outcomes of current short-term programs. More...
Removing the Barriers
By Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. A University of Maryland student has drafted a report showing how the state's flagship institution isn't accessible for students with physical disabilities. More...