Par Orientations. La génération Y passe de nombreuses heures sur la toile tous les jours. Et elle en est consciente puisque les étudiants interrogés estiment que, demain, le numérique impactera forcement le travail (61 %), la manière de se déplacer (50 %) et les modes de consommation (48 %). Suite...
Par Wally Bordas. L'objectif des deux ministres est d'atteindre 60 % de diplômés de l'enseignement supérieur dans une classe d'âge. Une piste qui avait été proposée par le rapport sur la stratégie nationale de l'enseignement supérieur remis à François Hollande. Suite...
Par Wally Bordas. Le cap du million d'inscrits a été franchi pour France Université Numérique (FUN), principal portail en ligne pourvoyeur de MOOCs francophones. Depuis le lancement de la plateforme, 193 sessions de cours ont été proposées, dont 138 étaient inédits. Des MOOCs proposés par 61 établissements, dont 45 d'enseignement supérieur. C'est ce que révèle un communiqué de presse publié par l'organisation le 7 septembre. Suite...
By . Imagine a computer programmer. What does this person look like? What is this person doing? Is the person with anyone? What kinds of hobbies might he or she have. More...
By . One involves a tenured education professor who was fired from Louisiana State University ostensibly for using profanity in class with her students. The other is the emergence of “learning analytics,” the use of software to flag students who are not doing well in a class. More...
By . None of us has any control over the family we are born into. Yet the accident of birth determines a large share of each of our future earnings. Alarmingly, the more somebody’s own earnings depend upon what their parents earned, the more inequality persists. If this dependence – known as intergenerational earnings persistence – is high, a society is characterised by a dynastic structure where the poor stay poor and the rich stay rich. More...
By . Adult education has been through the wringer recently, with governments in all the UK nations making heavy cuts in what were already small and marginal services. At the same time, all European nations have growing numbers of older adults, and we have a vested interest in making sure they stay active – mentally as well as physically – for as long as possible. More...
By . By the time they are teenagers, more than two-thirds of young people are not doing enough physical activity. Teenagers spend an average of eight hours every day sitting, with 11 to 15-year-olds watching nearly three hours of television. Most of us are well aware that such behaviour risks damaging their physical health, but there’s an additional problem. More...
By , , , and . Our new research has shown that when women working in the social sciences apply for a research grant, they are just as likely as men to win funding. But while there is equality in the success rate, the fact that so few women are in professorial positions applying for grants means men still get more research money than women in the social sciences. More...
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