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9 décembre 2012

Need to prepare for the next wave of foreign students

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By Rahul Choudaha. A recent commentary in University World News highlighted issues facing US higher education in sustaining international student growth rates. Although some of the concerns raised are relevant, they mask the latent strength in the scale, diversity and capacity of the American higher education system to become a more attractive player in the international student mobility arena.
The concept of international student recruitment in the US is a relatively new development. It gained traction in response to post-recession budget cuts, primarily in public higher education institutions. The external environment prompted institutions to start recruiting international students, but the internal capacities and resources of many were ill prepared for this sudden shift towards a more proactive recruitment model.
Against a backdrop of higher expectations for international enrolment and declining budget support, this lack of internal capacity triggered the adoption of quick turnaround recruitment approaches. For example, several institutions started experimenting with commission-based recruitment agents, anticipating lower upfront costs. These quick-fix practices, however, have created gaps in institutions’ ability to manage the qualitative risks associated with the use of agents and provide adequate support services to meet international student needs. Read more...

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9 décembre 2012

Call for universities to respond to shortages of health professionals

By Jan Petter Myklebust. Europe’s youth workforce declined by 11% between 2000 and 2010, while the health and social work sector experienced a 3% increase in its workforce, creating more than 770,000 jobs at the same time as there was a five-million decline in job openings elsewhere. Changing workforce and skills needs have important implications for higher education.
The health sector is projected to grow by 5% between 2010 and 2020, meaning that more than a million new jobs will be created, in addition to the job openings that will occur because of replacement needs, estimated at seven million, which will require increased numbers of highly qualified people.
Most member states in Europe are facing critical workforce shortages: in 2009, about 30% of all doctors were over 55 years of age and by 2020, an estimated 60,000 doctors or 3.2% of all European doctors, are expected to retire each year. Important 'shortage countries' such as the US, Australia and Canada also create added competition for scarce human resources.
Projections show that not enough young recruits are coming through the education system to replace those who leave, with several countries already experiencing a shortage of doctors and nurses. At the same time, surveys show that many nurses are leaving the profession, ranging from 19% in The Netherlands to 49% in Finland and Greece. Read more...

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9 décembre 2012

Debate on potential to host several higher education hubs

By Alya Mishra. With Singapore, South Korea, Malaysia and, more recently, Sri Lanka and Bhutan aspiring to become global education hubs in Asia, India’s potential to host several hubs – and the challenges it would face in doing this – has become a point of recent debate.
With more than 600 universities and 31,000 colleges, and the third largest student enrolment after China and the United States, India has what it takes to become a global education hub, argue experts.
But lack of a comprehensive national policy, bureaucratic red tape and the slow pace of higher education reform may prevent India from achieving this. Read more...

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9 décembre 2012

New legislation is a blow to university autonomy

By Nicola Jenvey. South Africa’s universities view their autonomy as sacrosanct, and so the decision by Higher Education and Training Minister Blade Nzimande to push through legal amendments that will allow him to intervene in university governance "at whim" has come as a severe blow. Last month parliament voted in favour of the Higher Education and Training Laws Amendment Bill, and last week it was approved in the National Council of Provinces –- the final step ahead of becoming law.
The bill essentially simplifies the process by which the government can place struggling universities under administration and sanctions other kinds of government interventions. But it has shocked the sector is that neither Higher Education South Africa (HESA), which represents the vice-chancellors of the country's 23 universities, nor the statutory advisory Council on Higher Education (CHE), were consulted on the amendments.
Both entities had made presentations to parliamentary bodies, arguing that the amendments would affect their autonomy. It was, said HESA Chair and Durban University of Technology Vice-chancellor Ahmed Bawa, “extraordinarily disappointing" that they had not been consulted before the bill went to parliament – especially as the amendments were "devastating". Read more...

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9 décembre 2012

Foreign exchange costs eased for international students

By David Jobbins. Universities’ increasingly important revenues from international students are being seriously depleted by foreign exchange charges on fees and other transactions.
In the UK alone universities spend £34 million (US$54 million) a year in foreign exchange charges, given that approximately 35% of international students make up to three payments a year by international bank transfer at a charge of £6 a transaction, with the remainder using credit cards, which carry a 1.6% surcharge each time.
But using a new system established by a UK-based company, Uni-Pay, the costs are reduced to nothing. International students pay their fees in local currencies in their home countries and the university receives payments in domestic currency (Pounds Sterling in the case of the UK). More...

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9 décembre 2012

Role of assessment contested at Educa conference

By Michael Gardner. Radical modernisers and educational traditionalists clashed at this year’s Online Educa Berlin (OEB) conference in Germany’s capital. Donald Clark, a director of the United Kingdom’s University for Industry, called for a new approach to accreditation.
Addressing the motto of this year’s OEB, “Reaching beyond Tomorrow”, participants discussed the motion that “a ban on diplomas and degrees awarded by schools and universities would have a positive impact on competence development and lifelong learning”.
Clark referred to two critical aspects in this context – developments in technology and their impact on course provision, and growing youth unemployment. Read more...

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9 décembre 2012

Double the number of disciplines achieve world standard or above

By Geoff Maslen. A national report on the work of Australia’s university researchers has found that the number of disciplines in higher education institutions performing at and above world standard has doubled over the past two years, with 10 universities rated above the world standard for research, including four performing at well above world standard.
The report notes that more than 450 instances of fields of research were ranked at, above or well above world standard, and in all 22 broad fields of research in between three and 14 Australian universities achieved a rating at above or well above world standard.
Prepared by the Australian Research Council, the report was released by Science and Research Minister Senator Chris Evans, who said the Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) report showed Australia was on track to have 10 universities in the world's top 100 by 2025 – a target set out in the government’s Australia in the Asian Century White Paper, which was released by Prime Minister Julia Gillard last month. Read more...

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9 décembre 2012

1,000 university leaders to receive ‘upgrade’ training abroad

By Yojana Sharma. China is stepping up its overseas training programme for presidents and vice presidents of public universities as it looks to upgrade higher education to compete with world-class systems and top universities internationally.
Some 1,000 university presidents and vice presidents will be sent to the United States, Britain, Australia and Germany for leadership training courses beginning this month, under a new 80 million yuan (US$12.8 million) programme over five years, the Ministry of Education has announced.
China’s Vice-minister of Education Hao Ping said in mid-November, in remarks carried by the official Xinhua news agency, that the training would help university presidents to understand how higher education in developed countries has evolved and to learn about university management reforms. Read more...

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9 décembre 2012

Lancement de la version mobile de "lesmetiers.net"

Lancement de la version mobile de "lesmetiers.net"
Le site lesmetiers.net a lancé le 22 novembre une version mobile de son site internet. Fiches métiers, vidéos, actualités sur les métiers et les formations… on retrouve l’essentiel des informations présentes sur le site internet.
Chaque semaine un métier est mis à « à la une », et chaque jour une nouvelle actualité est proposée. Un moteur de recherche « métiers », permet de retrouver à partir d’un simple mot-clé, l’ensemble des fiches et des vidéos.
Consulter le site depuis votre mobile.
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Inscrivez-vous gratuitement à notre service d’alerte pour être prévenu par SMS des actualités du site lesmetiers.net (nouveau dossier, nouvelle fiche...).
Lancée le 22 novembre dernier, la version mobile du site lesmetiers.net met vos contenus préférés à portée de votre mobile.
La version mobile du site lesmetiers.net vient d’être mise en ligne!
Vous y trouverez des fiches métiers, des vidéos, ainsi qu’une sélection d’actualités sur les métiers et les formations en Ile-de-France.
Simple, colorée et fidèle à l’univers graphique du site lesmetiers.net, lesmétiers.net version mobile vous propose:
    En page d’accueil, chaque semaine un métier « à la une », et chaque jour une nouvelle actu;
    Sur la page « Métier », un moteur de recherche métiers, par mot clé ou par ordre alphabétique, qui vous permet de retrouver sur votre mobile l’ensemble de nos fiches métiers et de nos vidéos métiers;
    Sur la page « Actu », les 10 dernières actualités publiées sur le site.
Soyez les premiers à surfer sur la version mobile du site lesmetiers.net. Pour vous y rendre, rien de plus simple: il suffit de taper « lesmetiers.net » dans votre moteur de recherche mobile.
N’hésitez pas à nous faire part de vos impressions et de vos attentes en nous écrivant par mail à l’adresse contact@lesmetiers.net. Patricia Holl

Έναρξη του κινητού έκδοση του "lesmetiers.net"
Lesmetiers.net site ξεκίνησε 22 Νοεμβρίου κινητή έκδοση της ιστοσελίδας του. Περιγραφές θέσεων εργασίας, βίντεο, ειδήσεις για τις θέσεις εργασίας και την κατάρτιση... θα βρούμε περισσότερες από τις πληροφορίες που περιέχονται στην ιστοσελίδα. Περισσότερα...

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9 décembre 2012

Une enquête sur la notion d’employabilité/formation

L’Institut du Développement Professionnel France (IDEP) a réalisé une étude sur la notion d'employabilité/formation* auprès de 172 entreprises et 320 salariés. Cette enquête de 5 mois (février-juin 2012) révèle que le panel d’individus interrogés porte un intérêt marqué pour la formation professionnelle. Cependant ils sont encore 32% à méconnaître leurs droits à la formation et 77% à ne pas maîtriser l’accès aux différents dispositifs et à leurs financements. On remarque néanmoins que les femmes connaissent mieux leurs droits que les hommes.

Pour 63% des employeurs interrogés, développer l’approche employabilité/formation favorise l’amélioration de l’image sociale de l’entreprise. Ce sont les managers qui demeurent les relais d’information et qui sensibilisent leurs salariés à la formation professionnelle.

* capacité individuelle à acquérir et à maintenir les compétences nécessaires pour trouver ou conserver un emploi.

Lire l'étude.
The Institute of Professional Development France (IDEP) conducted a study on the concept of employability/training with 172 companies and 320 employees. This survey of five months (February-June 2012) reveals that the panel of individuals interviewed has a strong interest in vocational training. More...

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