Selon le rapport d'application de la loi fiscale de la députée PS Valérie Rabault, la réforme de la prime pour l'emploi et du RSA activité a, au final, pénalisé moins de personnes que prévu : alors que les estimations chiffraient 1,2 million de lésés potentiels, son rapport fait état de 740 000 perdants.
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Violence adds to pressure for HE reform bill changes
By María Elena Hurtado. August was coming to an end when a group of angry students barged into the office of Eduardo Silva, rector of the Jesuit university Universidad Alberto Hurtado, in Santiago, Chile. Read more...
Structural Higher Education Reform ‒ Design and Evaluation Synthesis Report
This is the executive summary of the final synthesis report of the project Structural Higher Education Reform—Design and Evaluation. CHEPS and CHEGG were contracted by the European Commission (DG EAC) to analyse system-level (or ‘landscape’) structural reforms in higher education, in particular in relation to the policy process through which reforms were designed, implemented and evaluated and factors affecting success or failure. The overall objective is to provide policy makers at the European, national and institutional levels with policy relevant conclusions concerning the design, implementation and evaluation of structural reforms. More...
Foundations focus on scaling successful reforms

The real enemy of education reform

CIHR backs down from research financing reform
By Elizabeth Payne. Canada’s chief health science funding agency backed down Wednesday, agreeing to undo a controversial reform that led to open revolt by many of the country’s scientists.
“I think it is a big win for health research in this country,” said Bill Tholl of HealthCareCan which represents academic health science centres in Canada, at the end of the day-long meeting. More...
Universités : la réforme du master patine
Par Marie-Estelle Pech. Pour certains au gouvernement, ce serait aujourd’hui «le bon moment» pour faire avancer le dossier de la sélection des masters universitaires, car les esprits «se sont ouverts sur la question». Suite...
Réforme du master : l’exécutif planche sur une loi
Vietnam’s Higher Education Reforms Target 10,000 PhDs in Six Years
Vietnam has announced a bold new higher education reform agenda. The government of Vietnam will offer up to 10,000 government scholarships for overseas doctoral study between 2014 and 2020 (or 1,300–1,500 per year) to tertiary and research institute staff. The so-called 911 Project will also offer scholarships to qualified non-academic professionals committed to tertiary. More...
Higher Education Reforms in Afghanistan
By Ahmad Jawed Samsor. None of higher education institutions in Afghanistan has ever been evaluated or ranked by an International or regional ranking body, in other words the institutes have not yet met the minimum Requirements to be ranked or be placed in one of those lists. Read more...