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By Erin Zlomek. Els van der Helm tried to sign up for a corporate recruiting event through the University of California at Berkeley’s business school last year, but she was turned away. “I got the response, ‘Oh, actually this is just for the MBAs,’ which makes sense,” says Van der Helm, who graduated from Berkeley last May with a Ph.D. in psychology and now works as a junior associate for McKinsey. The MBAs “pay a lot of money to get their time with the recruiters,” she says. “Everything is very nicely laid out for them. For Ph.D.s, it’s not.”
Van der Helm and some of her classmates organized Berkeley’s first career conference last year for Ph.D.s looking for jobs outside of academia. More...

Turkey is boosting its efforts to attract more international students, whose number in Turkish universities has more than doubled over the past three years. 
The country is aiming to become a worldwide brand in international education with its new project “Study in Turkey,” the country’s higher education chief said at an international education conference in San Diego on May 30. More...

By Volha Charnysh. Students across the world dream about studying abroad, and Belarusians are no exception. The Europe Day Education Fair, organised by the EU Delegation in Minsk on 22 May, gathered a large enthusiastic crowd.  
The fair attracted so much attention in part because international education remains out of the reach of the majority of Belarusian students.  Challenges that European students never worry about, such as obtaining a visa, financing their education, or even academic preparation, force many young people to stay at home. More...

By Ruth Olurounbi. The President of University of the People (UoPeople), Shai Reshef, the world’s first non-profit, tuition-free, accredited, online university, has said that a tuition-free, online model for tertiary education can solve the vast shortage of university seats, impacting millions of people in Africa and around the world.
Reshef, who has 20 years of experience in the international education market, said a private sector partnership, would, in no small way, solve the problem of unavailability of university seats in Africa. More...

By Julie Coleman. Collins, publisher of one of the world’s most well-known dictionaries, is running a competition to encourage members of the public to vote on the new words that should be included in its next edition. But the hype around the selection of the words is masking something more special – the new resource on offer to us as amateur and professional word-lovers. More...

By James Williams. The recent University Alliance report on quality in higher education brings into sharp focus one of the major issues facing contemporary UK higher education: how we ensure that the sector maintains its reputation for quality in a period of dramatic change. More...

By Stephen Morton. In Salman Rushdie’s 1988 novel The Satanic Verses, the fictional character Whisky Sisodia comments that the “trouble with the Engenglish is that their hiss hiss history happened overseas, so they dodo don’t know what it means”. It is this complex and often unsavoury history – a history of conquest, dispossession, and violence – that Rushdie’s fiction attempts to make sense of. More...

By Alan C. K. Cheung. Brain drain has been a continuing problem in many developing countries for several decades. China is no exception. According to a report by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, there were more than a million Chinese students studying abroad between 1978 and 2006 and 70% failed to return to China after graduation.
In an effort to lure top talent back to China, in recent years the Chinese government has been implementing various initiatives, such as the Thousand Talents Program for top scientists, to reward those who choose to return. Although these initiatives, along with the recent booming economy, have been able to attract more talent from overseas in the past decade, many of these Chinese are still not willing to give up their job in developed countries to move back to China. More...

Dans quel contexte Pôle emploi va-t-il devoir agir en 2014 et au Cours des mois suivants ? Quels sont les enjeux et les besoins essentiels auxquels il faut que l’établissement soit en capacité de faire face ?
Ce diagnostic tente d’apporter des éléments de réponse et des repères utiles à ces questions. Il examine successivement :

• les dimensions macroéconomiques, d’emploi et de chômage ;
  
• le fonctionnement du marché du travail et de l’intermédiation sous l’angle des besoins des chômeurs ;
  
• le fonctionnement du marché du travail et de l’intermédiation sous l’angle des besoins des employeurs et des recruteurs ;
• la diversité des besoins des régions et des territoires au regard des disparités en matière d’emploi et de chômage.

Ce diagnostic s’inscrit également dans un contexte spécifique de politiques publiques dans le champ de l’emploi et de la formation professionnelle. Suite...