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30 septembre 2013

Early Transfers: Dropouts or Successes?

By Matt Reed. You know that awkward moment when your sense of what goes without saying clashes directly with somebody else’s, and you’re too surprised in the moment to do a really good job of analyzing it?
I had one of those on Saturday. I was on a panel at the Education Writers Association’s higher ed conference in Boston, along with Zakiya Smith, from the Lumina Foundation, and Terry Hartle, from ACE. Scott Jaschik, from Inside Higher Ed, was the moderator, and the focus of the panel was President Obama’s proposals for tying financial aid to as-yet-unspecified measures of institutional performance. Read more...

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30 septembre 2013

Ask the Administrator: Transparency Ad Absurdum

By Matt Reed. An occasional correspondent writes:
I have been privy to a trend that at first I liked a lot, but most recently brought me alarm. (I am bringing this to you not as applicant in either process, just came across them through acquaintances.) In many VP searches the open forums and much of the interview process is very public. Public to the extent that I am seeing and hearing about more and more of the open forums being broadcast either on the radio, public television or youtube. All of which bring transparency to the search. Read more...

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30 septembre 2013

Rebounding From a Major Disappointment

By Jeff Abernathy. Most often, I choose some angle on a positive story for Alma in writing this blog. Even the stories about the challenges for higher education end up with something of a positive spin. Such is the nature of presidential journalism, I suppose.
But, even for the elite colleges, not all of the news is good. What happens when the college runs into a major disappointment? How do you discuss such matters in public? The old-style PR office would have counseled that we leave such news altogether out from public discussion, but since I came to Alma, I’ve been espousing transparency, so I need to “walk my talk.” Read more...

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30 septembre 2013

Signature d'une convention de coopération entre le CNFPTLV et le réseau des Carif-Oref

Le CNFPTLV (Conseil national pour la formation tout au long de la vie) et le RCO (réseau des Carif-Oref - Centres d'animation et de ressources d'informations sur la formation-Observatoires régional sur l'emploi et la formation) s'engagent, via cette convention, à poursuivre et développer leur coopération sur les points préexistants, mais définissent aussi de nouveaux axes de travail commun. Suite...

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30 septembre 2013

30 propositions pour améliorer la formation des chômeurs

L’Inspection générale des affaires sociales (Igas) a rendu public, le 20 septembre dernier, son rapport définitif sur l'évaluation de la politique de formation professionnelle des demandeurs d'emploi.
Alors que la négociation sur la réforme de la formation professionnelle a débuté le 24 septembre, l’Inspection générale des affaires sociales (Igas), missionnée en février dernier dans le cadre de la démarche de « Modernisation de l’action publique » du Gouvernement, a publié, le 20 septembre, la version définitive de son rapport sur la formation des demandeurs d’emploi. Elle y présente 30 propositions destinées à améliorer la qualité des formations et du service rendu aux demandeurs d’emploi, tout en formant un plus grand nombre d’entre eux. Rapport sur le site de la Documentation française. Suite...

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30 septembre 2013

Un guide pour "Trouver un emploi sans diplôme"

Le Centre d'information et de documentation jeunesse (CIDJ) vient de publier un nouveau guide "Trouver un emploi sans diplôme".
Ce guide examine toutes les pistes pour trouver un emploi quand on a quitté l'école après la 3ème ou arrêté ses études avant d'avoir un diplôme.
Tour à tour, il présente les secteurs qui recrutent (hôtellerie, restauration collective, grande distribution, services à la personne, armée de terre...) et donne des conseils pour la recherche d'emploi (CV, lettre de motivation, entretien d'embauche).
Guide CIDJ "Trouver un emploi sans diplôme"
Renseignements :
CIDJ
101, quai Branly - 75015 Paris
tél. 01 44 49 12 00

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30 septembre 2013

Med Students Earn Credit by Editing Wikipedia Articles

Medical students can earn academic credit at the University of California at San Francisco for editing content on Wikipedia. Fourth-year medical students in a new class will be editing articles, adding images, reviewing edits and adding citations to support unreferenced text. They will focus on editing 80 frequently used articles that have low levels of quality. Wikipedia is a widely used reference for health topics, but medical entries can lack sources and have gaps in content. Read more...

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30 septembre 2013

Higher Education in 2020

What will higher education look like in 2020? A new report from the Britain-based Observatory on Borderless Higher Education draws on interviews with 21 international education professionals in an attempt to answer just that. Here are a few of its main findings:
On MOOCs (massive open online courses), their impact “on pedagogy and university business models will be profound but an evolutionary shift rather than an avalanche of change.” Read more...

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30 septembre 2013

Khan Academy en Español

The online learning website Khan Academy has begun translating its video lessons into Spanish, a spokeswoman recently confirmed. The site already features portals that link non-native English speakers to video lessons in English, but translating the more than 100,000 practice problems and video lessons into a different language marks a first for the site. The spokeswoman said about 95 percent of the practice problems and about 2,000 video lessons have so far been translated into Spanish, which means Spanish speakers visiting the new site will see some content in English for the time being. Read more...

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30 septembre 2013

When Rating Colleges, Think Diving

By Walter M. Kimbrough. About one month ago, President Obama announced plans for sweeping changes in higher education. In short, he wants the system to be much more efficient, affordable, and timely. Numerous reports have indicated the cost of higher education has increased at rapid rates. Bloomberg indicated that since I started college in 1985, the cost has risen by 500 percent. Read more...

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