Formation Continue du Supérieur

By Michael Stratford. President Obama sent Congress a budget request Monday that would increase federal spending on many higher education programs and also aims to reap savings for the government by changing some student loan and repayment options. Read more...

By Michael Stratford. The Obama administration revealed this week that extending its income-based repayment program to 5 million existing student loan borrowers will cost taxpayers more than $9 billion. Read more...

By Elizabeth Redden. European higher education leaders are concerned that two trade agreements currently being negotiated could cast doubt on the ability of national and regional governments to determine the character of their higher education systems.
At issue are the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), for which negotiators from the European Union and the United States entered their eighth round of talks this week, and the Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA), which is being negotiated between 23 World Trade Organization members, including the E.U. and the U.S.
The higher education-related implications of these agreements, which are being negotiated behind closed doors, are not entirely clear. But in a statement released last week, the Council of the European University Association warned that the autonomy of national and regional governments could be threatened if higher education is subject to international trade rules. Read more...

By Elizabeth Redden. After Algonquin College, a community college in Ontario, announced that it would be opening an all-male campus in Jazan, Saudi Arabia, the faculty union’s newsletter published an alarming image: that of the beheaded bodies of five Yemeni nationals convicted of murder and robbery. Read more...

Le Café de l’Alternance une rencontre conviviale et efficace avec un jeune en recherche d’un contrat en Alternance »
Chers partenaires,
La Mission Locale a initié un nouveau mode de recrutement, « Le Café de l’emploi ».
Il a permis à bon nombre de ses participants (jeunes candidats et entreprises qui recrutent)  de vivre une expérience réussie, pour cela nous vous invitons à nous rejoindre sur cet événement.
Vous trouverez ci-joint l’invitation à cette manifestation et le coupon-réponse vous permettant de vous y inscrire.
Le jeudi 9 Avril 2015
de 8h30 à 11h00
Lieu : en attente de confirmation
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Parution de l'étude-action sur les Emplois d'avenir
L’Institut Bertrand Schwartz, appuyé par l’Union Nationale des Missions Locales (UNML), a lancé en octobre 2013 une étude-action sur les Emplois d’avenir, comportant deux volets menés de façon concomitante entre octobre 2013 et novembre 2014. Les résultats de l'étude sont en ligne à partir du 5 février 2015.
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