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La notion “d’attentes des étudiants” présente deux problèmes : (1) primo, qu’ils en veulent pour leur argent, et que ces considérations orientent leurs choix et doivent orienter ceux des universités [NdT : vaut pour les universités britanniques ou américaines, et certaines écoles françaises où les frais d’inscription annuels atteignent des sommets et où à l’issue des études, des prêts conséquents doivent être remboursés et l’attente de « retour sur investissement en terme d’emplois rémunérateurs » est très importante] ; (2) deuxio que les établissements intériorisent le fait qu’ils doivent produire des étudiants “employables” dans la mesure où les hommes politiques aiment déclarer que l’université est là pour lutter contre le chômage. Voir l'article...

Je voudrais que les gens commencent par réaliser qu’ils veulent, avant tout, faire des choses favorisant les apprentissages de leurs étudiants, ou s’engager dans des démarches pédagogiques, avant de vouloir utiliser telle ou telle technologie.

La pédagogie avant tout

Quand on dit à un enseignant : “Bon, alors, nous sommes équipés de Moodle et voici ce que vous pouvez faire avec. Vous voulez monter un forum dans une de vos classes ? Moodle va vous permettre de le faire et nous allons vous aider à le paramétrer” , on ne favorise pas l’intégration du numérique dans sa pédagogie, on fait exactement l’inverse. Voir l'article...

Historically across the OECD, the teaching profession has been largely dominated by women. The share of female teachers has been increasing over the past decade – reaching 68% in 2014 for all levels of education combined. The gender disparity decreases gradually with the level of education, from 97% of women in pre-primary education to 43% in tertiary education. Between 2005 and 2014, the gender gap increased at the primary and secondary levels, but decreased at the tertiary level. More...

Making doctoral education accessible and successful for students from low income, first generation families as well as members of immigrant or specific ethnic groups is a world- wide problem. In the US the traditional explanation for the low numbers of Ph.D. recipients from these groups are lack of preparation, lack of interest and a “leaky pipeline.” These alone are not enough to explain disparities. This article argues that the most powerful vehicles of exclusion are tacit knowledge and the implicit bias of faculty and is related to doctoral/faculty socialization. Faculty share the values and prejudices of the broader society and those of their own group—one which in the US is predominately white, male and from well-educated middle class families. More...

Since late 2015, the South African government has been under pressure to respond to an unprecedented post-1994 student movement demanding free university education. The initial concession of no fee increases placated university students for a while but during 2016 university fees, dissatisfaction with the government and the fragmentation of the government itself coalesced into a serious threat to Africa’s ‘’best’’ university system.
El primer apartado del estudio permite situar las producciones científicas de los dos países entre los principales productores del mundo. Francia ocupa el séptimo lugar a nivel mundial y España, el décimo. Los indicadores son relativamente similares para ambos países, incluso si se incluyen detalles más precisos como el autor responsable de las publicaciones o incluso la tasa de artículos altamente citados (o tasa de excelencia). More...

Since late 2015, the South African government has been under pressure to respond to an unprecedented post-1994 student movement demanding free university education. The initial concession of no fee increases placated university students for a while but during 2016 university fees, dissatisfaction with the government and the fragmentation of the government itself coalesced into a serious threat to Africa’s ‘’best’’ university system. More...

Research and Education are a foundation of European public life. They are predicated on values, trust, and the pursuit of truth, without which our institutions and our interactions cannot function. The next framework programme must strengthen frontier-led science. It must find new ways to connect research and education. Universities, and their entrepreneurial students, are also key to the innovation eco-systems. More...

This report is part of the RAND Corporation corporate publication series. Corporate publications are program or department brochures, newsletters, pamphlets, and miscellaneous information about the RAND Corporation or RAND's business units. Some corporate publications are published in the AR series as Annual Reports or as Administrative Reports. Administrative Reports are often required by the client or sponsor and provide a status report on work resulting from a contract. More...

This paper seeks to demonstrate that China’s massive investment in capacity to produce metals is not just the result of state support, but because the country is home to the world’s largest and technically advanced metallurgical plants, its companies are able to produce metals at lower cost than most of their foreign competitors. More...

This paper seeks to demonstrate that China’s massive investment in capacity to produce metals is not just the result of state support, but because the country is home to the world’s largest and technically advanced metallurgical plants, its companies are able to produce metals at lower cost than most of their foreign competitors. More...