Formation Continue du Supérieur

Créé par la Fondation d'entreprise Veolia, en lien avec le Campus Veolia.
Le Prix de la Solidarité Etudiante vise à encourager la prise d'initiative et l'implication des étudiants de l'enseignement supérieur au service de projets d'intérêt général.
Le prix récompense les démarches innovantes concourant au développement durable, et s'inscrivant dans l'un des trois domaines d'intervention de la Fondation :

The Washington Monthly has published its College Guide, which is based on social mobility, research, and service.
The top five places in the National Universities category are:

The winners in the other categories are:

The social mobility criteria are: number of low income students (receiving Pell grants), cost, predicted and actual graduation rate. More...

Emerging, a human resources consultancy and Tredence, a research institute specializing in personnel marketing and recruiting conducted an online survey in 20 countries worldwide with the objective of describing the ideal university from a corporate perspective. Global Employability University Ranking is the list of the top 150 universities as selected by more than 5000 top international recruiters. More...

The University Ranking by Academic Performance was first published in 2009 by the Informatics Institute at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara. It is a research based ranking with six indicators measuring publications, citations and international collaboration covering altogether 23 fields.
As might be expected, Harvard is first in more fields, twelve in all, than any other university, while Oxford remains at the top in the humanities, holding first place in History and Archaeology and Philosophy and Religious Studies.  Science subjects are the domain of Californian universities with the California Institute of Technology first for Physical Sciences, University of California Berkeley for Chemical Sciences and Environmental Sciences, and University of California Davis for Agriculture and Veterinary Sciences. More...

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The newly designed website, launched in 2014, will be truly multilingual with access in some major world languages (Arabic, Chinese and Russian) as well as widely-spoken European languages (English, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish) and some less widely used languages (Catalan and Greek). More...

Today’s post is from Adrian Blundell-Wignall and builds on his OECD working paper The Bitcoin Question: Currency versus Trust-less Transfer Technology. The views expressed here are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of the OECD or of its member countries.
The working paper argues that some of the technologies associated with crypto-currencies are very interesting and may one day become a serious disruptive technology for financial intermediaries—but that these technologies should be thought about separately from the crypto-currencies like Bitcoin that have some very dubious uses. These coins, the paper argues, can never replace legal tender like dollars. However, some Bitcoin proponents seem to be very confused about the place crypto-currencies occupy versus legal tender. More...

Today’s article is by Andy Martin, Lecturer in the Department of French at Cambridge University. His latest book is The Boxer and The Goal Keeper: Sartre versus Camus
I was once having a chat with a Great Writer. I was an ardent admirer of his work, so I was probably a little awe-struck (now I would probably tone down the awe, but I was in a phase of youthful enthusiasm). Naturally, I raved on about one of his earlier works. He was not just modest (in fact he wasn’t really a modest guy at all), he had genuine doubts about everything he had done. He wasn’t really sure that all those novels deserved the accolades. More...

UIL, together with the UNESCO Regional Bureau for Education in Africa (BREDA) in Dakar, the UNESCO Regional Office in Abuja is coordinating the development of a West African curriculum framework for formal and non-formal bilingual education. As part of this initiative seven country teams from Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, Niger, Senegal and Togo took part in a workshop from 18 to 20 August 2014 in Cotonou, Benin.
The workshop was opened by the Minister of Culture, Literacy, Arts and Crafts and Tourism and the Secretary General of the Ministry of Pre-primary and Primary Education of the Republic of Benin and the Director of the UNESCO Regional Office in Abuja .
The curriculum framework outlines the basic competences required by teachers in bilingual education and is accompanied by a teachers’ guide. The framework aims at operationalizing actions adopted in the Policy Guide on the Integration of African languages and Cultures into Education Systems, which was adopted by the Ministers of Education present at the African Conference on the Integration of African Languages and Cultures into Education in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso in 2010.
Link to Policy Guide: uil.unesco.org/fileadmin/keydocuments/Africa/en/policy_guide_sep_web_en.pdf. More...

On the 28th of August, the Erasmus Student Network is celebrating the launch of MapAbility platform, a ground-breaking online map designed to inform disabled students about the accessibility level of European Higher Education Institutions.
MapAbility’s primary aim is to conduct extensive research into the accessibility level of Higher Education Institutions in Europe. With this new online map, ESN is using MapAbility data to provide disabled students with an exclusive guide to accessibility in European Universities. More...