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Vì sao sinh vật biển hay nuốt nhầm rác nhựa?
Chuyên mục: Giáo dục – Education
U.S. Confidence in Higher Education Now Closely Divided
gallup.com by Jeffrey M. Jones
Nearly as many U.S. adults have little or no confidence as have high confidence
WASHINGTON, D.C. — An increasing proportion of U.S. adults say they have little or no confidence in higher education. As a result, Americans are now nearly equally divided among those who have a great deal or quite a lot of confidence (36%), some confidence (32%), or little or no confidence (32%) in higher education. When Gallup first measured confidence in higher education in 2015, 57% had a great deal or quite a lot of confidence and 10% had little or none.
The latest results are based on a June 3-23 Gallup survey that gauged Americans’ confidence in various institutions. A follow-up story reporting on the remainder of institutions will be published in the coming days.
This year, Gallup and Lumina Foundation partnered to better understand the nature of confidence in higher education. The research includes the trend results reported above from Gallup’s June telephone survey as well as new results from a contemporaneous web survey of more than 2,000 Gallup Panel members.
A review of the historical trends shows that confidence has dropped among all key subgroups in the U.S. population over the past two decades, but more so among Republicans. Americans who lack confidence in higher education today say their concerns lie in colleges pushing political agendas, not teaching relevant skills, and being overly expensive.
A separate article in the Gallup-Lumina series will report that Americans are significantly more confident in two-year colleges than four-year colleges when evaluating the two types of institutions separately.
Republicans’ Confidence Has Changed the Most
Confidence in higher education among Republicans today is nearly a mirror image of what it was nine years ago. In 2015, 56% of Republicans had a great deal or quite a lot of confidence, and 11% had little or none. Now, 20% are confident and 50% have little or no confidence.
Republicans are not alone in having reduced confidence in higher education, as 35% of independents, down from 48% in 2015, and 56% of Democrats, down from 68%, are confident.
In the past year, all party groups have shown at least some increase in the percentage with very little or no confidence, and a decrease in the percentage saying they have some. None of the party groups shows meaningful change in high confidence over the past year.
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Học trò ngày xưa thi thế nào để đỗ trạng nguyên?
Chủ Nhật, 30/06/2019 16:00:00 +07:00 VTCNews.vn
Để đỗ trạng nguyên, nho sinh thường phải trải qua quá trình học tập vất vả, thuộc lòng nhiều sách kinh nghĩa, thông thạo làm thơ phú, ứng đối.
Theo “Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư”, nền khoa cử nước ta bắt đầu từ năm 1075, dưới thời vua Lý Nhân Tông.
Trong buổi đầu, thể lệ thi cử chưa ổn định. Về sau, theo sự phát triển của giáo dục và khoa cử, thể lệ thi cử ngày càng đi vào nền nếp, khuôn khổ, gồm 3 kỳ thi là Hương, Hội, Đình.
Nhiều vòng thi nghiêm ngặt
Thi Hương được tổ chức quy mô tỉnh hoặc liên tỉnh để chọn người vào thi Hội. Theo sách “Khâm Định Đại Nam Hội điển sự lệ”, kỳ thi Hương thời Nguyễn có ba vòng (tam trường) hoặc bốn vòng (tứ trường).
Tiếp tục đọc “Học trò ngày xưa thi thế nào để đỗ trạng nguyên?”Nâng cao Hiệu quả Giáo dục Đại học tại Việt Nam – World Bank
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Doanh nghiệp và các trường nghề: Sao mãi không gặp nhau?
Tia sáng – 19-11-2024 – Đặng Hoàng Vị – Nguyễn Thanh Thủy
Việt Nam đang duy trì cách tiếp cận lạc hậu trong việc đào tạo lao động có kỹ năng cao.
Đội ngũ giảng viên doanh nghiệp – những người vẫn đang làm việc tại khối doanh nghiệp tham gia giảng dạy sinh viên – mới có vai trò chính trong việc hình thành kỹ năng thực tiễn cho người học. Ảnh: Fanpage TVET Viet Nam
“Để đảm bảo chất lượng sản phẩm, công ty sử dụng 100% lao động đã qua đào tạo. Những lao động đã qua đào tạo có kỹ năng về lý thuyết lẫn chuyên môn. Và cuối cùng là kỹ năng về nghề. Ba yếu tố này là rất cần thiết đối với doanh nghiệp” – Đó là phát biểu của ông Phan Quyết Long, Giám đốc Công ty TNHH Xây lắp Chế tạo và Cung cấp Thiết bị Công nghiệp Thành Long trong hội thảo trực tuyến “Xu hướng đào tạo nghề – Góc nhìn đa chiều’’ do Báo Kinh tế và Đô thị tổ chức.
Tiếp tục đọc “Doanh nghiệp và các trường nghề: Sao mãi không gặp nhau?”Tự chủ đại học dựa trên học phí ?
Tia sáng – 15-11-2024 – Võ Thị Hải Minh
Xuất phát từ chủ trương xã hội hóa các dịch vụ công cách đây gần 20 năm, việc các cơ sở giáo dục đại học đua nhau tăng học phí gần đây có thể khiến giáo dục đại học của Việt Nam phát triển không bền vững.
Khối ngành Y dược có học phí đắt nhất và tăng mạnh nhất trong những năm gần đây. Ảnh: Khoa Y dược, trường Đại học Y dược, Đại học Quốc gia Hà Nội.
Gần đây báo chí rầm rộ đưa tin mức học phí cho năm học 2024-2025 của nhiều trường đại học tăng đáng kể so với mức học phí năm học 2023-2024. Ví dụ, trường Đại học Y Dược (Đại học Quốc gia Hà Nội) tăng gấp đôi học phí so với năm học trước, lên đến 55 triệu đồng/năm. Sinh viên trường ĐH Luật TP.HCM năm học 2024-2025 phải đóng học phí cao hơn năm trước từ 4 triệu đến 16,5 triệu đồng/năm tùy chương trình. Trường ĐH FPT áp dụng mức học phí cho sinh viên nhập học mới năm 2024 với mức tăng học phí từ 1,8-2 triệu đồng/học kỳ.
Tiếp tục đọc “Tự chủ đại học dựa trên học phí ?”Tuition exemption for five-year-old pre-schoolers – a humane policy
VNN – August 13, 2024 – 08:01
The policy of waiving tuition fees for five year olds has alleviated the financial burden on families and created opportunities for all children to attend school.
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| In a class of pre-school in Sơn La Province. Photo giaoducthoidai.vn |
HÀ NỘI – As the new school year approaches, Lê Cẩm Vân and her husband in Thanh Hóa City of Thanh Hóa Province are anxiously preparing to pay the beginning-of-year school fees for their four children (two in primary school and two at five aged in pre-school class).
Vân said: “Both of us work freelance jobs with unstable incomes, so the start of each school year is very stressful, as we have to cover costs for fees, books, pens, and clothes for the children.
“This year, upon hearing that five-year-old pre-schoolers would be exempt from tuition fees, our whole family was overjoyed.
Tiếp tục đọc “Tuition exemption for five-year-old pre-schoolers – a humane policy”AI kiểm chứng lối học từ chương
NGUYỄN VẠN PHÚ – 19/06/2024 15:44 GMT+7
TTCT – Chương trình học tiếng Anh ở nhà trường phổ thông sẽ càng lạc lõng với sự phổ biến của AI tạo sinh nếu không chịu thay đổi để đáp ứng.
Cách dạy và thi tiếng Anh, từ không chuyên đến chuyên, ở Việt Nam vẫn như mấy chục năm trước, trong khi ta đã ở thời của trí tuệ nhân tạo (AI) tạo sinh, chuyện học và thực hành ngôn ngữ đã khác rất nhiều.
Using the IELTS for high school admission is unfair: education ministry
VNE – By Thanh Hang, Duong Tam February 29, 2024 | 04:31 pm GMT+7
Inferring advantages for students with IELTS scores in the high school admission process may breed inequality, as not everyone has the means to study and take the test, the education ministry said.
Nguyen Xuan Thanh, head of the Department of Secondary Education under the Ministry of Education and Training, said there are four groups of students eligible for high school admission without taking the entrance exams in accordance with regulations from 2014: students at ethnic minority boarding schools; students of ethnic minorities; disabled students; and students with national prizes regarding culture, art, sports and science.
Certain other student groups get bonus points during the admission process, including children of war martyrs and invalids, as well as those living in areas with dire socioeconomic circumstances.
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| Students prepare to take a test for high school admision in HCMC, June 2023. Photo by VnExpress/Quynh Tran |
Buổi giao thời của giáo dục Việt Nam
tiasang – 14/02/2024 – NGUYỄN VĂN CHÍNH
Giáo dục của nước ta hiện nay vẫn bám vào cái triết lý “tạo ra con người mới xã hội chủ nghĩa”, dù chả biết cái con người ấy có đặc điểm gì, trong khi nền kinh tế đã chuyển sang mô hình thị trường, dựa trên kinh tế đa thành phần và hội nhập vào thế giới.
Vietnam requires native English teachers to go through 120-hour training program
VNE – By Duong Tam January 25, 2024 | 10:01 am GMT+7
Students learn with a foreign teacher at Res English Language School in HCMC. Photo courtesy of Res
Students learn with a foreign teacher at Res English Language School in HCMC. Photo courtesy of Res The education ministry has requested foreigners teaching English at language centers in Vietnam to complete a training program, focusing on pedagogical skills.
Vu Minh Duc, head of the Teacher and Education Management Officials Department under the Ministry of Education and Training, said Tuesday that the program, which was introduced last month, aims to improve the quality of language teaching and learning in Vietnam.
Teachers at foreign language centers who must participate in this program include native English speakers, foreigners with an associate degree in English, or an associate degree along with a foreign language proficiency certificate of level 5 or higher according to the six-level foreign language competency framework used in Vietnam or equivalent.
Tiếp tục đọc “Vietnam requires native English teachers to go through 120-hour training program”Ireland Could Become the Next Nation to Recognize the Rights of Nature and a Human Right to a Clean Environment
The move to enshrine those rights is part of a flurry of developments advancing the rights of nature movement this year.
insideclimatenews.org By Katie Surma January 1, 2024
Ireland—a nation synonymous with its abundant, verdant landscapes—is considering a nationwide referendum on the rights of nature and the human right to a healthy environment.
If that happens, Ireland would become the first European country to constitutionally recognize that ecosystems, similar to humans and corporations, possess legal rights. More than two-thirds of the 27 European Union countries already recognize a universal human right to a healthy environment.
In December, a legislative committee proposed that the Irish government take a series of administrative measures to draft proposed constitutional amendments recognizing that nature has inherent rights to exist, perpetuate and be restored, and that humans have a right to a clean environment and stable climate.
To take legal effect, the proposed amendments must be approved by both houses of parliament, the Dáil Éireann (the lower house) and the Seanad (the upper house), and win a majority of the popular vote.
Tiếp tục đọc “Ireland Could Become the Next Nation to Recognize the Rights of Nature and a Human Right to a Clean Environment”Higher Education’s Donor Problem
time.com
BY NICHOLAS DIRKS JANUARY 11, 2024 2:02 PM EST
Dirks is currently the president of the New York Academy of Sciences and author of the new book CITY OF INTELLECT: The Uses and Abuses of the University
The end of Claudine Gay’s brief and turbulent presidency at Harvard has hardly put an end to controversies about elite university leadership and governance. Bill Ackman, the “activist” donor and Harvard graduate, is calling for further resignations from the Harvard Corporation, while baiting MIT’s President, Sally Kornbluth, with the Shakespearean query: “et tu?” Meanwhile, Mark Rowan, the board member who engineered the takedown of the University of Pennsylvania’s erstwhile president, Elizabeth McGill—the first of the Washington three to step down—has now been pressing his advantage in calling for major reforms of an academic nature at Penn. Philanthropy and academic freedom are colliding in ways that have the potential to undermine the true purpose and mission of our universities.
As much as these, and some other, donors have appeared to embody popular discontent with those at the pinnacle of higher education, it is easy to forget that not long ago the scandals around these universities had to do with donors who used their gifts as leverage to secure admission for their children, making visible the problematic relationship between some individual philanthropy and private interests. We all called for firewalls then but seem now to have forgotten those critiques of the relationship between private interests and higher education.
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Tiếp tục đọc “Higher Education’s Donor Problem”Tributes to Jacques Delors, ‘architect’ of the modern European Union
The former president of the European Commission, who played a crucial role in the construction of the European Union, died on Wednesday at age 98.
Le Monde with AFP Published on December 28, 2023, at 10:39 am (Paris)
A ‘builder’ of Europe
European Council President Charles Michel said Delors “led the transformation of the European Economic Community towards a true Union.”
“A great Frenchman and a great European, he went down in history as one of the builders of our Europe,” Michel posted on social media.
Current European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said Delors had “shaped entire generations of Europeans, including mine” and was “a visionary who made our Europe stronger.”
European Central Bank chief Christine Lagarde highlighted Delors’s role for the single European market and “the path he laid out towards our single currency, the euro.” Europe, she said, “has lost a true statesman.”
‘Statesman with a French destiny’
French President Emmanuel Macron called his fellow countryman a “tireless creator of our Europe.” Posting on X, formerly Twitter, Macron said “his commitment, his ideals and his rectitude will always inspire us.” Delors was “a statesman with a French destiny,” Macron added.
Olivier Faure, head of the Parti Socialiste, of which Delors was a member, said, “A giant has left us.” Delors, who served as finance minister under President François Mitterrand, a Socialist, sought to “overcome tragedy by building a durable peace” after World War II ravaged Europe, Faure added.
‘Founding father’
“Modern Europe today loses its founding father,” said Enrico Letta, a former Italian prime minister who currently heads the Jacques Delors Institute created by the ex-Commission chief.
Writing on X, Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani praised “a personality who showed, on the basis of Christian values, the path of strengthening Europe.”
‘What many thought impossible’
Belgium’s Prime Minister Alexander De Croo also hailed the EU’s “founding father”, whose “project for a stronger and more secure union remains hugely relevant for the Europe of tomorrow.”
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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said that Delors “always believed in a united, open and prosperous” Europe. “He worked to make what many thought impossible a reality,” Sanchez wrote on X.
‘Visionary’
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz hailed Delors as a “visionary” and an “architect of the EU as we know it.” Delors fought for European unity “like few others”, Scholz added in a message posted on X, urging Europeans to continue his work for the continent’s benefit.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken described Delors as a “visionary statesman.” “Delors transformed Europe through tireless service to the idea of a Europe whole and free,” Blinken wrote on X.
Editorial Jacques Delors’ double legacy
Le Monde with AFP
Israel-Gaza war is having a chilling effect on academic freedom
Listen to podcast https://shows.acast.com/60087127b9687759d637bade/65804f3a3c61a300185b8044
“In the UK we’ve seen suspension of students and staff from their universities. We’ve seen cancelling of events … of student activities like protests and sit-ins. We’ve seen a few cases of students that were arrested. We’ve seen students whose visas are threatened to be revoked.“
Across parts of academia, concerns are mounting that the Israel-Gaza war is having a chilling effect on academic freedom. In the second of two episodes of The Conversation Weekly exploring how the war is affecting life at universities, we speak to an Israeli legal scholar, now based in the UK, about the pressures that academics and students are facing to rein in their views about the war.https://embed.acast.com/60087127b9687759d637bade/65804f3a3c61a300185b8044
In the two months since the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel and subsequent Israeli war on Gaza, Neve Gordon is worried that there’s been a major clampdown on academic freedom in the US, Europe and Israel.
After teaching for 17 years in southern Israel, Gordon moved to the UK in 2016 and he’s now a professor of human rights and humanitarian law at Queen Mary University of London. His research looks at the laws of war with a special focus on Israel-Palestine, and on definitions of antisemitism.
He’s also the vice-president at the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies and chair of its committee on academic freedom. In this role, he’s been following the impact of the conflict on free speech at universities, and recently hosted an international webinar on the issue.
In the UK we’ve seen suspension of students and staff from their universities. We’ve seen cancelling of events … of student activities like protests and sit-ins. We’ve seen a few cases of students that were arrested. We’ve seen students whose visas are threatened to be revoked.
In Israel, Gordon told us he was aware of 113 cases in Israel of students and staff who have been suspended or dismissed, and at least ten students who have been arrested for their criticism of Israel’s attack on Gaza. “We have several students sitting behind bars for Facebook or tweets that basically express empathy for the suffering of the Palestinians,” he says.
Read more: American universities in the spotlight over reaction to Israel-Gaza war – podcast
Meanwhile, in Germany, many protests supporting Palestinian rights have been banned and Gordon says colleagues in Germany have told him that “the situation is untenable”.
All this, Gordon says, is having a chilling effect across academia.
I’m getting phone calls from friends in different universities in different countries saying that they want to cancel their Israel-Palestine course for next semester because they’re afraid that things that they will say in class can be interpreted by students as antisemitic.
Listen to the full interview with Neve Gordon on The Conversation Weekly podcast, where you can also listen to the first of our two episodes on the way the Israel-Gaza war is affecting life at universities, focusing on what’s been happening at one American public university.
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