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Student-Loan Debt Could Become Next Financial Bubble, S&P Says - Businessweek
Published on 2012-02-10 22:24:02
Federal and private student-loan debt is approaching $1 trillion and surpassed credit-card debt for the first time in 2010, according to Mark Kantrowitz, publisher of FinAid.org, a college grant and loan website. Under U.S. law, student-loan debt -- unlike credit-card...
L'échec cinglant de la formation des enseignants - LeMonde.fr
Published on 2012-02-09 06:57:01
Le bilan établi par la Cour des comptes est accablant : cette réforme "soulève aujourd'hui des questions de fond sur l'organisation de la formation initiale, sur l'attractivité du métier d'enseignant et sur l'adéquation de ce nouveau dispositif aux grands objectifs...
Thu Feb 9 2012 19h30 Understanding French Higher Education at The American Library in Paris
Published on 2012-02-08 08:25:57
Thu 09 February 2012 19h30 AAWE Understanding French Higher Education with the AAWE authors of Beyond the Bac – Higher Education in France and Abroad. Speakers : Fred Weissler, professor of mathematics at Université Paris 13; Elyse Michaels- Berger, former Academic Director of the HEC MBA Program; and Sallie Chaballier, co-chair of the FAWCO education task force and AAWE coordinator of Paris College Day. AT The American Library in Paris
School autonomy: good news from an experiment in England
Published on 2012-02-06 08:33:22
In just six years Paddington Academy has gone from absolute failure to high performance with the same kids. The secret? New freedoms over staffing and teaching methods. And brilliant, highly motivated teachers. Can this work in France? Read more on The Economist.
Concours : Qu'est-ce qui change en France?
Published on 2012-02-03 02:09:25
Voici les nouvelles conditions de recrutement des enseignants publiées sur le site de l'Education Nationale
Grève des enseignants contre les suppressions de poste et la réforme de l'évaluation - LeMonde.fr
Published on 2012-01-31 06:03:01
Les enseignants sont de nouveau appelés à faire grève et à participer à une "manifestation nationale à Paris", mardi 31 janvier, pour réclamer le retrait du projet de réforme de leur évaluation et dénoncer les 14 000 suppressions de poste...
Will French universities finally break their chains?
Published on 2012-01-23 09:05:11
On January 1, 2012, all French universities will officially become "autonomous", which in theory means greater control over their destiny, in particular concerning budget and staffing. The concept of autonomy was introduced in 2009 for 18 universities, followed by another 33 in 2010 and 22 in 2011, based on the 2007 law known as LRU. The LRU allowed universities to manage their payroll for the first time, including flexibility on salaries and the possibility of bonuses. By removing a
Mitt Romney hawks big donor's for-profit university as solution for rising higher education costs
Published on 2012-01-19 08:24:37
As US prosecutors close in on for-profit university financing scams, GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney publicly heaped praise on a buddy's for-profit college: Full Sail University. For-profit colleges have been criticized for targeting low-income students because they qualify for large federal loans. But students who enroll are less likely to graduate with a meaningful credential and eight times more likely to default on the loan. Full Sail University offers a $81,000 video game art program
Higher education: Largest for-profit university in USA answers to a single family
Published on 2012-01-15 11:09:52
With 600,000 students in over 200 locations, the University of Phoenix is America's largest for profit university. And it is the wholly owned subsidiary of Apollo Group, which is tightly controlled by a single Arizona family. One of the wealthiest men in the USA, the founder, John Sperling, is a sharecropper's son, Cambridge Phd, activist for medical marijuana. He alone decides the fate of the company and the university he built. According to Jahna Berry, writing in The Arizona Republic, "
Socialist Hollande accuses Sarkozy of wanting "Anglo Saxon" school
Published on 2012-01-06 00:45:45
Anglo-Saxon is code in France for everything English and American, which, when uttered by French politicians of the left often means something foreign and unspeakable. It's the one politically correct insult. And a lot easier than actually formulating an idea or plan. So when François Holland attacks Nicola Sarkozy for favoring "Anglo-saxon" school, it really just means that the French Socialist presidential hopeful hasn't a clue what to propose...