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The first ever university branch campus backed by the Chinese State is to be established in Malaysia, one of Asia’s fastest growing education hubs. Xiamen University, a top twenty higher education institution in China, plans to open a five-faculty campus in September 2015, joining well known campuses of foreign institutions such as the University of Nottingham, UK, and Monash University, Australia.
“The invitation is historic because this is the first time that the Chinese government has allowed one of its universities to set up a campus abroad,” said Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak this week. Read more...

By Anna Malinovskaya. Perhaps all international students discover at some point that going to college in the States costs more than they pay in money terms. I have experienced personal costs that will impact my life long after my education here is done. Some I was prepared to encounter, and others caught me off-guard. I don’t regret my decision to study in the States, but coming here has meant closing some doors and cutting off some possibilities.
As long as I can remember, mainstream political opinion in Russia has been anti-American, encouraged by the older generation who grew up in the Soviet Union and taught that America was an enemy to be opposed. Not everyone in the country is anti-American of course – in fact, most people I know are not actively anti-American – but there is an underlying suspicion of American values and intentions. As a result, my decision to study in America is viewed warily, and even negatively, by some. Read more...

By Jordan Weissmann. The last few years haven't exactly been gentle to our public colleges and universities, or the students who attend them. Cash-poor state legislatures have gone to town on their higher education budgets, and as they've hacked away, tuition has risen along with the sums undergraduates have had to borrow. In total, 38 states cut post-secondary funding since the recession, many by more than a fifth.
So in that light, it sadly can be considered welcome news that just 16 states are planning to slash their spending any further in FY 2013, according to the Grapevine project at Illinois State University, which released its annual roundup of state-by-state higher-ed funding on Tuesday. The worst cuts this year are pending in Florida (8 percent), Alabama (6 percent) and New Jersey (5.5 percent). Another 16 legislatures increased their budgets by less than 2 percent, which will likely amount to a cut once inflation takes its bite. On the other hand, that means higher-ed will get a budget boost in 18 states. So let's say the glass is 1/3 full. Read more...

By Manash Pratim Gohain. In a first-of-its-kind opportunity, management students from 11 state government universities and National Institutes of Technology from remote corners of India will learn from international faculty alongside their counterparts from Erasmus University Rotterdam, McGill University and Richard Ivey School of Business of Canada or Grenoble Ecole de Management.
Management Development Institute Gurgaon will host International Summer University 2013 in April in which students from University of Kashmir, NIT Hamirpur and Kottayam will do 8 management elective courses and get the credits transferred to their MBA. Read more...

By Michael McDonald. Moody’s Investors Service cut its 2013 outlook for all of U.S. higher education to negative, citing mounting pressure on revenue sources.
“Most universities will have to lower their cost structures to achieve long-term financial sustainability and fund future initiatives,” Moody’s said today in a report, led by analyst Eva Bogaty.
The ratings company previously had a stable rating for market-leading research institutions and a negative rating for other U.S. universities and colleges since 2009. The cost to attend college has increased faster than the rate of inflation over the past four decades, with some private institutions topping $60,000 a year. Read more...

By Katherine Sellgren. "Negative rhetoric" from the government is deterring international students from applying to UK universities, says a university vice-chancellor. Prof Edward Acton, vice-chancellor of the University of East Anglia, warns of a sharp fall in the UK's share of the international student market.
Similar concerns have been raised by Dr Wendy Piatt, director general of the Russell Group of leading universities.
The government says tougher regulation of net migration is necessary. Under new visa regulations that came into force in April, students face tougher questions about their destination, limits on their ability to work and harder questions on their English-language capability. Read more...

By Tamar Lewin. In an unusual arrangement with a commercial company, dozens of public universities plan to offer an introductory online course free and for credit to anyone worldwide, in the hope that those who pass will pay tuition to complete a degree program. The universities — including Arizona State, the University of Cincinnati and the University of Arkansas system — will choose which of their existing online courses to convert to a massive open online course, or MOOC, in the new program, called MOOC2Degree.
The proliferation of free online courses from top universities like Harvard and Stanford over the past year has prompted great interest in online learning. But those courses, so far, have generally not carried credit.
“We’re taking the MOOC idea, but now it will be part of a degree program, not a novelty,” said Randy Best, the chairman of Academic Partnerships, a company that helps public universities move their courses online. Read more...

By Cherise Lesesne. In order to support the partnership between the United States and Brazil, referred to as the Joint Action Plan to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Discrimination (JAPER), the Brazilian government has agreed to send approximately 1,000 students to several of the nation’s historically Black colleges and universities. As a result, selected HBCUs are preparing efforts to accommodate an average of 30 to 50 students to be admitted into each selected school for the 2013 fall semester.
Brazil, a country that shares a similar historical past to the United States as a hub for transported African slaves, relies heavily on affirmative action within the education system. Facing many of the same social and economic disparities that minorities in the United States endure, the Brazilian government established the JAPER agreement in 2008 to initiate an interagency that would share resources between commercial, economic and educational efforts. Along with the JAPER agreement was the formation of the HBCU-Brazilian alliance, which recognized the social and economic challenges for Afro-Brazilian students. Read more...

Missionné par la Région Rhône-Alpes, le PRAO publie le référentiel de la fonction d'accueillant généraliste et le guide pratique de l'accueillant.
Donner l’occasion à chaque rhônalpin d’être accueilli, informé sur les questions relatives à son orientation, sa formation, sa recherche d’emploi, telle est l’ambition du service d’accueil information généraliste mis en place de façon expérimentale par la Région Rhône-Alpes dans le cadre du Service Public Régional de la Formation (SPRF) sur 5 puis 8 territoires expérimentaux depuis 2011.
Ce dispositif piloté sur chaque Zone Territoriale Emploi Formation (ZTEF) et mis en œuvre  par différentes structures intervenant sur le champ de l’information et l’orientation des publics doit permettre de couvrir l’ensemble du territoire et de garantir une proximité et une lisibilité pour l’usager tout en facilitant la mutualisation des ressources des différents acteurs.
Cela étant, comme dans tout dispositif inter structures, la qualité du service rendu est liée à l’homogénéité des approches et la clarification de repères collectifs.
C’est pourquoi la Région Rhône-Alpes a missionné le PRAO afin qu’il anime un travail collaboratif avec les acteurs des territoires pour formaliser les contours de la mission d’accueillant généraliste et pour identifier des ressources partagées à destination des professionnels.
Deux documents sont aujourd’hui publiés: Le référentiel de la fonction d’accueillant généraliste et Le guide pratique de l’accueillant.
Conçus avec les professionnels de terrain, ils visent à:
- Clarifier la nature du service rendu, les activités et compétences mis en œuvre à l’occasion de l’exercice de la  fonction d’accueillant et formaliser les éléments permettant la mise en place d’une démarche de progrès.
- Concourir au développement d’une culture professionnelle spécifique et commune quelles que soient les structures d’appartenance.
- Faciliter la communication interne et externe sur le service rendu et donner un cadre de référence aux nouveaux professionnels qui auront à l’intégrer.
- Mutualiser  les supports d’intervention et sources d’information.
- Contribuer ainsi à une plus grande homogénéité des approches.
>> Pour en savoir plus sur le Service Public Régional de la Formation (SPRF), rendez-vous sur rhonealpes.fr.

Une palette d’aides régionales soutient orientation, formation ou reconversion pour favoriser le retour à l’emploi.
Responsable de la formation professionnelle des jeunes et des adultes, la Région propose et finance un ensemble de formations continues et d’aides individuelles pour accompagner les demandeurs d’emploi et les personnes concernées par les mutations économiques. Orientation professionnelle et formation, que se soit pour se remettre à niveau, s’engager dans une formation qualifiante ou élargir ses compétences : une carte à jouer face à la crise.
Un service public régional de la formation professionnelle
Mis en place l’an dernier par la Région Bretagne, pionnière dans ce domaine, il a pour mission d’assurer l'accès de tous les demandeurs d’emploi à une formation de qualité gratuite, avec un effort sur les publics prioritaires (moins de 26 ans sans diplôme, plus de 45 ans, bénéficiaires du RSA, travailleurs handicapés…). Il repose sur le programme Bretagne Formation (ensemble des formations qualifiantes de niveau CAP, BEP et Bac)  tandis que le Programme régional supérieur (PRS) regroupe l’ensemble des formations post-bac).
La  fiche sur le programme Bretagne Formation (PBF).
La fiche sur le programme régional supérieur (PRS).
Les aides individuelles à la formation
Elles permettent de financer des projets de formation à titre individuel et peuvent accompagner des formations qualifiantes (Chèque Formation), des formations d'adaptation à l'emploi (Chèque Force), des formation pour se reconvertir (Chèque reconversion) mais aussi aider une démarche de la validation des acquis de l'expérience (Chèque Validation).
La fiche sur le chèque Chèque Formatiohttp://blog.univ-provence.fr/admin.php?op=newPostn.
La fiche sur le chèque Chèque Force.
La fiche sur le chèque Chèque reconversion.
La fiche sur le chèque Validation. Suite de l'article...