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7 octobre 2012

Proportion of migrants with degrees on the rise – OECD

http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UWN.jpgBy Yojana Sharma. As international migration has risen in recent decades, the proportion of migrants with university degrees has also increased – with the most recent migrants to developed countries likely to be the best educated – according to just-released statistics from the OECD.
One third of immigrants who arrived less than five years ago in OECD countries, or some 5.2 million people, are tertiary educated. This has enormous human capital implications for both sending and destination countries.
“On average, the proportion of higher education graduates is greater among recent immigrants than for the native-born populations of the OECD countries (24%) or for longer standing immigrant communities (27%),” according to an OECD report presented at a conference held on 5 October in Paris, on identifying and better using migrants’ skills.
Harnessing the Skills of Migrants and Diasporas to Foster Development, prepared in cooperation with France’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, found that in Canada, Australia, Ireland and the UK more than half of recent migrants are higher education graduates.
The finding that new immigrants are better educated reflects “both the selective nature of migration to OECD countries and the increase of the education level of young people in countries of origin,” it said. More...
7 octobre 2012

UK universities face 'collapse into mediocrity', latest rankings predict

http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UWN.jpgBy David Jobbins. The United Kingdom still has some of the best universities on the planet, vying for the top slots in the latest Times Higher Education World University Rankings with leading US universities.
But their relative strength lower down the rankings is under pressure and they face a collapse in their global position within a generation, the rankings’ compilers warn.
Phil Baty, editor of the rankings, likened the coalition government’s policy of permitting universities to triple tuition fees in England to “a sticking plaster for an amputation”.
A slide in the UK’s middle-ranking universities contrasts with big gains across Asia-Pacific countries, representing a shift in power from West to East.
The California Institute of Technology retains the top placing this year. But Oxford rises two places in the 2012-13 table to take joint second place with Stanford University, pushing Harvard into fourth position.
Cambridge is down one place to seventh and Imperial College London holds on to eighth place. The rest of the top 10 are from the US.
While the UK remains the second best represented country behind the US in the world top 200, with seven top 50 universities and 31 top 200 institutions, it has suffered substantial losses in stark contrast to gains for most of Asia’s leading institutions.
More...

7 octobre 2012

Stockholm funding boost for internationalisation

http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UWN.jpgBy Jan Petter Myklebust. Stockholm University Rector Kåre Bremer last week announced that he would allocate SEK100 million (US$13 million) in extraordinary funds to enhance internationalisation.
He said the university was among the world’s top 100 and the new investment was “to enhance this position and meet the demands of an increasingly globalised research and higher education world”. The funding will be used for:
  • 50 sabbaticals for Stockholm University researchers going abroad.
  • 25 two-year postdoctoral positions for international students (SEK850,000 per postdoc per year).
  • A collaborative programme for bilateral cooperation with the universities of Helsinki, Illinois, Cornell, Wisconsin-Madison, Singapore, Fudan and Queensland, strengthening the Stockholm University Academic Initiative.
  • Establishment of an institute for advanced studies where 15 to 20 foreign researchers will be recruited for research visits as Wallenberg Academy Fellows, and where Swedish researchers might also be supported.
  • SEK17.5 million will be used to recruit foreign researchers.
  • SEK5 million will be allocated to departments at the university, with SEK50,000 for each international student the departments recruit who is paying tuition fees, in order to strengthen the international study programme – 100 such student placements will be supported.
The investment by Stockholm University is strategically aligned with the budget proposal this year of the Alliance government to strengthen Swedish research and higher education with SEK4 billion each year from 2016, notably for biomedical research and international collaboration.
7 octobre 2012

MOOCs – BlackBerry’s lesson for higher education

http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UWN.jpgBy Rahul Choudaha. In 2007, BlackBerry was at the forefront of the smartphones industry with over 40% of the market share in the United States. However, the iPhone offered a new choice to consumers and redefined their expectations of a smartphone.
Now Blackberry is arguably on its deathbed, with its market share slipping to less than 4% in the US. The Wall Street Journal notes that “it was a blinding confidence in the basic BlackBerry product that was at the root of RIM's [parent company of Blackberry] current troubles”.
In the same vein, MOOCs are beginning to offer a new choice to students, and are not only changing the financial equation of foreign branch campuses but also the way education is delivered as a result of technological advances.
The MOOCs debate
In my previous blog, I argued that branch campuses are infrastructure-intensive efforts with high financial and reputational risk. In contrast, MOOCs offer a low-cost, flexible alternative for ‘glocal’ students to potentially earn a foreign credential. Yet some branch campuses may be turning a blind eye to this alternative choice, which may lead them into the BlackBerry fallacy. More...
7 octobre 2012

First overseas branch campus set to open in Laos

http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UWN.jpgBy Patrick Boehler. At 7.15 every morning, Professor Wen Shuming and eight Chinese colleagues share a breakfast prepared by two local maids, who have been taught how to cater to the tastes of alien educators.
The group then leave their shared home and head for the office: two tube-shaped rooms with bare walls and fluorescent lights in a one-storey building on a busy road, next to a cash machine, a sportswear store and a deserted private school.
They are employed by Soochow University, but this office isn’t in Jiangsu province, nor even in China. It is on the outskirts of Vientiane, the capital of Laos.

7 octobre 2012

Curriculum internationalisation in an African context

http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UWN.jpgBy Loveness Kaunda. On 31 August, the International Education Association of South Africa – IEASA – launched its first special interest group, which will become a feature of its annual conferences and one of the main features of the association’s strategies for achieving its objectives.
This was a culmination of many years of collaboration between IEASA members and the chairs of similar special interest groups from the European Association of International Education and the International Education Association of Australia. Joint collaborative activities over the years included workshops, seminars, training and joint conference presentations on aspects of internationalisation at home and internationalisation of the curriculum. It was decided to launch IEASA’s first special interest group on internationalisation of the curriculum at its 16th annual conference, which was hosted by the University of Cape Town. (See video showing conference highlights here.)

7 octobre 2012

Higher education spending set to rise dramatically

http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UWN.jpgBy María Elena Hurtado. As a placatory gesture to protesting students, Chile’s President Sebastián Piñera has enacted a law that cuts interest rates on student loans and has also increased education spending in his budget proposal for 2013. But despite all government efforts, students appear to remain unsatisfied.

The new legislation, announced at the end of September, reduces interest on loans for private university students from 6%-2%. Once they secure employment, monthly repayments will amount to only 10% of salary, a 40% reduction to what had previously been on the books.
Piñera said the new law would offer improvements to the current situation. “The government’s previous system did not link repayment to earnings. Students had to pay a fixed sum, independent of their level of earning or whether they were in employment or not.”

7 octobre 2012

Belgium concerned about flood of Dutch students

http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UWN.jpgBy Robert Visscher. The number of Dutch students attending universities in Flanders in northern Belgium has increased for the 10th year in a row. Universities and politicians in Belgium are concerned about the trend, particularly because of the costs and the poor performance of Dutch students.
Over the past four years growth in the number of Dutch students in Belgium has been especially high. Their number has increased by 50% to more than 6,000.
One of the main factors pushing Dutch students towards neighbouring Belgium – especially the region where people mostly speak Flemish, which is close to Dutch – is tuition fees, which are €1,771 (US$2,300) in The Netherlands against €578 (US$752) in Belgium.
Doing further study sets a student back between €4,000 and €20,000 in The Netherlands, while Belgian students only have to pay a tuition fee once.

7 octobre 2012

More funding for HE, priority for students in austerity budget

http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/UWN.jpgBy Jane Marshall. Higher education and research have been relatively spared in France’s austerity budget. While most other ministries have experienced cuts, the sector’s allocation for 2013 rose by 2.2% over the previous year, totalling nearly €23 billion (US$30 billion), with priority going to student support and including funding for 1,000 new university posts.
The budget’s €514 million increase was in spite of the economic crisis, and against a predicted 3.5% cut for higher education and research made earlier this year after the socialist-led government came to power.
Geneviève Fioraso, higher education and research minister, expressed satisfaction. “With an increased budget in this very constrained climate, we shall manage,” she said.
Her chief priority was student support, including more funding for housing – in line with government policy to build 40,000 new units in five years – and increased grants, including introduction of a 10th month for the 650,000 students receiving them. More...
7 octobre 2012

L’université est une chance pour la formation des maîtres, saisissons-la!

http://www.cpu.fr/fileadmin/img/bandeau_newsletter.jpgAprès le rendez-vous manqué du début des années 1990, avec la création jamais tout à fait « digérée » des IUFM, après l’échec cuisant de la réforme de 2007, où les perspectives de suppressions d’emplois et d’économies dans l’Education nationale l’ont largement emporté sur les enjeux d’une élévation, au niveau du master, du recrutement et de la qualification des enseignants du premier comme du second degré, une chance historique se dessine pour une réforme de la réforme, pour une refondation de la formation des maîtres qui apparaît enfin pour ce qu’elle doit être: une priorité et une urgence politiques majeures, de début de mandat présidentiel, la mère de toutes les batailles pour une véritable politique de la jeunesse, dont dépend que le pays reprenne goût et espoir dans l’avenir.
Priorité à la formation des maîtres

40 000 postes mis au concours dès 2013, c’est plus qu’un signal dans un budget de réduction des déficits publics, c’est une formidable bouffée d’oxygène, c’est un horizon qui se dégage pour nos étudiants, dans un contexte de crise et de chômage, c’est une responsabilité et un défi pour tous ceux qui, dans nos universités, ont la charge de les former et de les préparer aux concours de recrutement.
Les universités françaises seront au rendez-vous que leur fixe la Nation, elles sont prêtes à répondre à la confiance et aux espoirs que les jeunes placent en elles. La formation des maîtres des écoles, des collèges et des lycées est au cœur de notre engagement d’enseignants et de chercheurs; c’est une des clés de la réussite de nos étudiants qui commence bien avant leur entrée dans l’enseignement supérieur.
Par ailleurs, comment prouver que nous savons remplir notre mission d’insertion professionnelle des étudiants si nous n’apportons pas la démonstration que nous savons aussi la réussir pour ceux qui nous sont les plus proches, dont certains deviendront des collègues dans nos universités, et sur qui repose la qualité de la formation de notre jeunesse – et, donc, l’avenir du pays!
Un défi pour les universités

Nul ne prétend que ce sera facile! Nous devrons faire face au défi du nombre sans altérer la qualité et le niveau de la formation. Les incertitudes et la dégradation des conditions d’entrée dans le métier ont provoqué, dans certaines disciplines, une crise des vocations. La période de transition va susciter, parmi les responsables des formations, un regain de pression et de nouvelles instabilités, alors qu’ils en sortent à peine. L’articulation entre la formation et le concours est complexe, et génératrice de tensions. Au sein de nos universités, entre les diverses composantes, mais également entre les universités de nouveaux équilibres vont devoir être trouvés. Ainsi, il va nous falloir, avant même que les débats des Assises de l’enseignement supérieur et la recherche aient porté leurs fruits, inventer de nouveaux types de structures dans nos universités. Nous devrons organiser un travail commun avec un Ministère employeur, celui de l’Education Nationale, qui de par sa taille et les enjeux qu’il porte laisse généralement peu de place à la souplesse et à la négociation. Nous savons tout cela. Mais, au regard de l’enjeu, du défi qui nous est lancé, toutes ces difficultés devront être surmontées. Comme le chantait Aragon,
Quand les blés sont sous la grêle
Fou qui fait le délicat
Fou qui songe à ses querelles
Au cœur du commun combat

Ensemble

La formation des maîtres représente une telle urgence, se trouve tellement au cœur des missions de nos universités, qu’il n’est finalement pas absurde, même si ce peut être inconfortable, que son organisation précède les Assises de l’enseignement supérieur et de la recherche et oblige nos établissements à se structurer pour remplir cette mission: à la vérité, c’est le socle de nos autres missions!
N’en déplaise à Philippe Aghion, c’est un enjeu pour nos universités autrement déterminant que de limiter le pouvoir des présidents, qui serait excessif! Face au défi qui nous attend, les présidents n’auront jamais trop de pouvoir de conviction, d’entraînement, d’apaisement, parfois, de concertation et de négociation, toujours, avec les différents acteurs internes ou externes pour permettre à nos universités d’être à la hauteur de la confiance qui est placée en elles. Nous ne sommes pas seuls. Nous avons conscience d’exprimer, quelles que puissent être les tensions et les inquiétudes, l’engagement profond de tous les acteurs de nos établissements.
Alors, décidément, oui, l’université est une chance pour la formation des maîtres. Autant que la formation des maîtres est une chance pour nos universités!
http://www.cpu.fr/fileadmin/img/bandeau_newsletter.jpg Μετά από ποτέ η χαμένη ευκαιρία από τις αρχές της δεκαετίας του 1990, με την ίδρυση αρκετά "πέψη" IUFM μετά την οικτρή αποτυχία της μεταρρύθμισης του 2007, όπου οι προοπτικές της μείωσης των θέσεων εργασίας και την εξοικονόμηση Εθνικής Παιδείας έχουν πολύ μεγαλύτερη από τις προκλήσεις της αύξησης σε επίπεδο μάστερ, την πρόσληψη και τα προσόντα των εκπαιδευτικών ως το πρώτο από το δεύτερο βαθμό, μια ιστορική ευκαιρία έχει προκύψει για τη μεταρρύθμιση της μεταρρύθμισης, για αναμόρφωση της κατάρτισης των εκπαιδευτικών, που φαίνεται τελικά ότι θα πρέπει να είναι μια προτεραιότητα και μια σημαντική πολιτική προτεραιότητα της πρόωρης προεδρικής θητείας, η μητέρα όλων των μαχών για την πραγματική πολιτική για τη νεολαία, η οποία εξαρτάται από τη χώρα συνεχίσετε την γεύση και την ελπίδα για το μέλλον. Περισσότερα...
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