Formation Continue du Supérieur

À la rentrée 2014, selon les projections effectuées à partir des résultats provisoires au baccalauréat et des choix d’orientation observés les années précédentes, les effectifs étudiants augmenteraient de 1,6 % dans l’ensemble de l’enseignement supérieur.
Les flux d’entrée dans le supérieur seraient également plus élevés que ceux de l’an dernier, sous l'effet d'un surcroît important de bacheliers professionnels et d'une légèrer remontée des taux de poursuite d'études des bacheliers généraux et technologiques.
À l’horizon 2023, le nombre de bacheliers généraux augmenterait significativement pour toutes les séries par rapport à 2013, en raison principalement du dynamisme démographique.
La mise en place de l'orientation prioritaire a permis d'augmenter le taux de poursuite et les effectifs des bacheliers professionnels en S.T.S.  et des bachliers des séries technologiques en I.U.T.
Si les tendances en termes d'orientation, de poursuite d'études et de démographie se prolongeaient, les effectifs étudiants augmenteraient de 9% entre 2013 et 2023.

L'agence pour l'enseignement français à l'étranger (A.E.F.E.) fête ses 25 ans le vendredi 10 avril 2015. Un événement "en réseau" à suivre en direct sur le web.
Etablissement public à caractère administratif, sous tutelle du ministère des affaires étrangères et du développement international, l'A.E.F.E. assure le suivi et l'animation du réseau des établissements d'enseignement français à l'étranger, ainsi que les missions de service public relatives à l'éducation en faveur des enfants de nationalité française résidant à l'étranger.
A l'occasion de ses 25 ans, l'A.E.F.E. organise, le 10 avril 2015, une journée de rencontres avec les acteurs majeurs de l'enseignement français à l'étranger : tables-ronde, signatures de conventions avec de nouveaux partenaires. Cette journée sera ponctuée de rendez-vous numériques : diffusion de l'événement en direct sur le site dédié de l'A.E.F.E., duplex avec des établissements scolaires à l'étranger, vidéos et séquences radios, etc. Voir l'article...

Le Guide des bonnes pratiques linguistiques dans les entreprises est destiné aux entreprises implantées en France et ouvertes à l'international qui souhaitent concilier l'usage du français, langue habituelle au travail, avec les impératifs de la communication globale.
Il propose des solutions et des exemples de bonnes pratiques sur tous les sujets relatifs aux langues (gestion des compétences linguistiques des salariés, communication interne et externe de l'entreprise, sites Internet et intranet, traduction...). Publié par la Délégationgénéraleà la langue française et aux langues de France,il vient d’être réédité après avoir été diffusé l’année dernière à 10 000 exemplaires.Il estégalement disponible en anglais.Ce guide va prochainement s’enrichird’un outil d'auto-évaluation enligne, qui permettrad’obteniren quelques clics un diagnostic interactif et personnalisé de lagestion des langues dans l'entreprise.
La réédition de ce guide fait écho à une lettre ouverte que la secrétaire d’Etat chargée du développement et de la francophonie, Annick Girardin, a adressée aux acteurs du monde du travail à l’occasion de la Semaine de la langue française. En pointant à sa manière certaines dérives dans l'utilisation de termes anglais dans la vie des entreprises, elle met en évidence l'intérêt pour celles-ci de mettre en place de véritables stratégies linguistiques.
L’outil d’auto-évaluation sera disponible prochainement sur www.francaisautravail.org.

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Par Mickaël Portela. Les modes de vie des jeunes de 15 à 24 ans se distinguent de ceux de leurs aînés. En 2010, les jeunes dorment 30 à 45 minutes de plus par jour en moyenne et consacrent également une heure de plus à leurs loisirs. Ils passent, en outre, deux fois plus de temps à leurs relations sociales que les 30-54 ans.
Les jeunes hommes disposent en moyenne de plus de temps libre que les jeunes femmes, malgré une nette diminution du temps consacré aux tâches domestiques par les jeunes femmes depuis 1986. Elles y passent encore 44 minutes de plus que les jeunes hommes en 2010.
À autres caractéristiques égales, les étudiants et les jeunes en emploi ont des temps de loisirs similaires. Quant aux jeunes ayant quitté le foyer parental, ils disposent en moyenne d’une heure de loisirs en moins que ceux vivant chez leurs parents, à profil identique.

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• ER 911 : 24 heures chrono dans la vie d’un jeune : les modes de vie des 15-24 ans (pdf - 695.2 ko). Voir l'article...

Peer review plays a central and critical role in the systems of publishing and communicating research results, from the perspectives of researchers and also of publishers. There is currently much experimentation in different approaches to peer review, both pre- and post-publication. The experiments are in part a response to concerns – some of them longstanding, others that have arisen more recently – about the effectiveness and fairness of current systems. But they have also been stimulated by the potential of new technologies, and new entrants to the scholarly communications market.
The key concerns relate to the rise in the number of number of papers being submitted for publication, and the pressure on researchers to secure publication, especially in high-status journals. This pressure is passed on to publishers and editors who need to ensure that their peer review and other checks act as effective filters against the publication of work that does not meet appropriate standards or, worse, involves misconduct or fraud. They therefore worry about difficulties in recruiting high-quality reviewers; about the need to provide them with effective support, guidance and training; and about the risks to the reputation of their journals – and even to the scholarly publishing system as a whole – when pre-publication review fails to detect papers with major problems. On the other hand, many publishers are also concerned about over-critical or negative reviews, and the need to ensure that reviewers do not make unreasonable demands on authors, or set impossible standards. Achieving an appropriate balance between properly-rigorous review on the one hand and unduly critical review on the other is not easy, and publishers are taking various steps to enhance their ability to achieve it.
There are many vocal critics of current approaches to peer review, and advocates for new systems and approaches. But publishers stress the need to avoiding getting too far in advance of the different subject communities they serve. The cultures of those communities are very powerful, and journals and publishers are keen to avoid the risk of alienating key sections of them. Hence many innovations, even from the newer entrants to the market, are introduced as pilots and/or on an optional basis; and we are unlikely to see widespread abandonment, for example, of pre-publication in favour of post-publication review. Editors play a key role in advising publishers on what is or might not be acceptable; and their role is likely to be enhanced as the pace of experiment quickens in six key areas.
First, there is widespread acknowledgement of the need to move towards greater transparency and openness in the review process. But there is a clear distinction to be made between openness as to reviewers’ identities on the one hand, and the content of reviews to readers as well as authors on the other. In many subject communities, the former is likely to be less acceptable, at least in the short term, than the latter.
Second, there is common agreement on the desirability of more interaction between editors, reviewers and authors. More ambitiously, many publishers wish to see more dialogue not just between all those involved in pre-publication review, but also with those engaged in post-publication comments, reviews and ratings.
Third, more and more publishers are seeking to provide article-level metrics, going beyond the views, downloads and citations to include - with the help of services such as Altmetric, Plum Analytics, and Impact Story - a range of metrics relating to comments and ratings, mentions in social media and news sites, bookmarking and so on. There is debate about how the metrics are generated, the weightings attached to different measures and the extent to which they are aggregated, and so on. But they are an increasingly important feature of scholarly publishing.
Fourth, there is increasing interest in the provision of rewards in the form of scholarly credit and recognition for reviewers. Both publishers and start-ups such as Publons and Peerage of Science are keen to give proper credit for the contributions that reviewers make to the research community. There is little enthusiasm – rather the reverse – for any suggestion of monetary rewards. But recognition not just of the quantity but also the quality of reviews is likely to become an increasingly-significant part of the landscape.
Fifth, there are renewed efforts to improve guidance, training and feedback for reviewers; and assessment and ratings of reviews and reviewers. Such efforts are essential if the peer review system is to sustain the confidence of the research community.
Sixth, there is increasing interest in differentiating between the distinct but related purposes of peer review. The rise of mega-journals such as PLOS One and Sage Open has highlighted the usefulness of seeking to distinguish between whether the research on which a paper is based is sound and thus worthy of publication, and whether it fits with the nature, scope and ambitions of the journal to which it has been submitted. Not least, such a distinction can help reduce the redundancy of effort involved when papers are submitted successively to more than one journal. Publishers are making increasing use of ‘cascade’ systems to avoid reviewing papers more than is necessary, and they are keen to do more. Whether third-party review services will increase in role and scope, is not yet clear.
In addition to these six key areas, however, we have detected through our study a sense that publishers would welcome more guidance from key sections of the research community on the kinds of peer review services they want publishers to provide, and on the purposes that they should seek to fulfil. Unless the purposes are defined with greater clarity than they are at present, at least some of the current experimentation may prove to be of little point. Download Scholarly Communication and Peer Review - The Current Landscape and Future Trends.

By John Finamore and Beethika Khan. T​he number of college graduates in the United States nearly doubled between 1993 and 2013, from 29 million to 55 million, according to the National Survey of College Graduates (NSCG). The number of college graduates with degrees in science and engineering (S&E) fields grew faster than the number of college graduates with degrees in non-S&E fields. Additionally, in 2013, about 1 in 10 college graduates were employed in an S&E occupation, and this proportion has remained largely unchanged since 1993. Women accounted for more than one-half of the college graduate population in the United States in 2013. However, women constituted only 29% of those employed in S&E occupations.
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