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A quota for large schools (France)

Valerie Pécresse, Minister of Higher Education, has set a target for large schools French to accommodate 30% of stock. It ¹ s a criterion of social mix as imperfect as the 20% social housing by municipality, but it has the advantage of being simple and robust. Some of the most prestigious schools are still far away. Without rapid progress, a minister will probably one day have to make these mandatory quotas. Realism because they control are achieved to restore the French a modicum of hope for their children.

Indeed, inequalities are dug rather than packed in recent years. More and more families are worried, wrongly or rightly, that their children do not see their professional and social progress compared to theirs. They can certainly dream for them a football career, a singer with charm, comedian successful entrepreneur or self-taught. But in France as it still works, great schools, and republican elitism they were supposed to represent, remain the most common route of upward mobility. Yet they became reserved for children of the most privileged classes.

Many former students or parents of students in these schools recognize the political and social problem it poses. But they still all - and that's natural - so that their children cross the mythical barrier of the competition. The only answer to this type of situation is the quota in one form or another. Science "and its director, Richard Descoings, are again at the forefront on this new commitment. This school had already shown the way by seeking to recruit in disadvantaged areas. It is to his credit and it has not to our knowledge affected the prestige of her degree. On the contrary.

Source: LesEchos.fr (November 2009)

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The second Norwegian University is considering a boycott Academic Israel

The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim (central west), second in the country will vote soon on a possible academic boycott of Israel, said here at the university Tuesday.
Management will review the November 12 open letter about thirty scholars who advocate the suspension of academic and cultural cooperation with Israel until a guarantee it will put an end to the occupation of Palestinian territories. "
"(...) We believe it is time that academic institutions contribute to international pressure against Israel so that real negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian democratic authorities and the international community can begin," according to this text.
"The Israeli universities and other institutions of higher education have played a key role in the politics of oppression", say the academics.
Anne Katherine Dahl, Deputy President, said that as a result of this initiative, the Board of Trustees of the university had decided to study a motion on a possible academic boycott.
"The board thought it was legitimate to consider the issue, it does not necessarily mean that abound in the direction of the signatories," said Ms. Dahl told AFP.
The Board comprises 11 members: four state representatives, four representatives, two other students and temporary employees.
Rector, Torbjoern Digernes, has meanwhile issued a negative opinion on Tuesday against the proposed boycott.
"As academics, it is our duty to encourage research into the causes of the conflict between Israel and Palestinians and ways to resolve it, "he wrote in a memo addressed to the Board of Directors.
" We are therefore dependent on the ability to cooperate with Israeli academics and hear their views on the conflict ", he notably said.
Initiative signatories follows similar campaigns launched in recent years in Great Britain and the United States, following the example of the academic boycott imposed against South Africa at the time of apartheid.

Source: LeMonde.fr (2-11-2009)

My Public Masterbation

"I did and I apologize HEC"

Historically, HEC is proud to train as finance and marketing from the champions. But the current economic collapse stems Does not a large part of the triumph of this hypercapitalism that graduates of this institution have just learned how to implement and to serve? It is not in this book, to stigmatize a school, but to question the spirit of the great business schools and management: business education is suited to the social, environmental? What is its share of responsibility for the disorders that we live in? Florence Noiville surveyed alumni, met with students during schooling, studied the reforms of the Harvard Business School. All converge to show that if one does not reproduce the skids of the last quarter century, it is urgent to rethink the "school of capitalism". Take the problem at its root by providing the future leaders of grid values based on a new approach to the purposes of the enterprise, the common good and wealth. The crisis provides an opportunity for this new situation. If nothing is done, we will continue to teach our elites to think about the world in a pattern which we see every day that does not work.

Florence Noiville is a journalist in the world. A graduate of HEC, Sciences-Po and holds a Master of Business Law, she began her career in finance before you leave everything to the culture. She is now a literary critic in the world of books and host of the same name on LCI. She is also the author of a biography of Nobel Isaac Bashevis Singer and a novel, The Donation (Stock).