Attention however the stress test must be well doneToday the British market undertaking is expensiveHe had already been decided to add a family memberA very juicy system and obviously leads to swelling of the costsActions on a joint basis are frequently broughtTheir year end goal has also been revised 13 million expected from local communitiesBeing the only free youth channel was a chance77 billion in published data it moves of 3Two other divisions will be further developedThe French industry, said sometimes, is better than its image. Could we transpose this same judgment in the academic world, who feels today ill loved (A) that the fault How the militant part of the teachers-researchers is unclear that by opposing any reform, the image of the profession in the opinion is deteriorating from year to year It is scarcely credible at the time where the world of knowledge has never had as much development and development opportunities! Revolutionary technologies, emerging energy, green fighting, new solidarity implies the creation of new jobs: a true boulevard!
Many understood, but it is not that it is more often in speeches and motions, where it is mostly question of resistance, where one clings to the age-old argument of "lack of resources". It is not new, but the merits of the case is different. To respond to the changes in society, the academics must change also, and perhaps more than others if they want to play locomotive which is normally their role and not the brakemen. It must surely take care of the number of hours of service and capacity of the amphis, but that is not the heart of the matter: what matters, it is the content of the service, the service quality and its assessment.
That any good or service produced should be proof of its quality, a student of CM2 readily. Apparently, this is more difficult in the faculty. We are sometimes told that he could be a reflex of class. Paradoxically closer to Plato that Rousseau, some teachers would tend to give itself a privileged place in the city: one where you can feel relieved assessment. There is perhaps a little of this in the resistance to the assessment, but this is not the essential: the truth is that society (not only education) has lost much of its landmarks and its measuring instruments, and is struggling to replace that the economy is "dématérialise." Qualifications of the truss steel sheet, everyone can enjoy; those of the automobile, it get there again; "productivity" of a lecture or research, it is a little bit more complicated!
Will as such, hide behind this difficulty to renounce any effort of assessment What is needed is inventing new tools. And therefore is better placed than the academics to conduct this research on concepts and measures of the immaterial The United States have naturally a step ahead of us, especially after the work of Gary Becker, Nobel Prize 1992, teacher in Chicago. Little suspect of neoliberalism, Christophe Laval explains about Becker: "the achievement of the purpose of the economy was an historic moment...". Current dematerialization led us to expand the economic calculation.... This is the entire man which can be understood by the economic approach. "The whole man: what more stimulating Reconcile the quantitative and the qualitative: there are more exciting site
Hard to argue the contrary as long as it remains at the level of general ideas, but it is the passage to the concrete application of the imagination. In the US, it doesn't interfere to with measuring the decline in the overall knowledge of graduates in percentage terms; or to evaluate the skills of teachers from tests of oral expression; or to put explicitly, case by case basis, the results of the students at examinations with the quality of teachers... What would lead surely many reservations with us.
But there is no requirement to copy the American methods. Why not build indicators "in the French" Interested parties to take the lead! The list of universities at the global level, where the France is often pale figure, should play the role of aiguillon. But it is fencing to challenge. From the idea, unfortunately lasts, that the differences from one country to another are "choices of society", which, seems, would make any non-significant classification test. Verdict without appeal: to the country of Descartes, there seems little plagued by "methodical doubt."
Last argument: these rankings, as all forms of "benchmarking", would lead gradually to an unbearable level playing field. False, says sociologist François Dubet, pleasantly evoking the universal system of wine vintages designed by American Parker: the trend is the homogenization, but there is also a small malignant among winemakers, who, taking advantage of these comparisons, seek precisely to escape and to differentiate: modern version of "comparative advantage". What could be, mutatis mutandis, the teachers concerned to offer an attractive range. Indeed, this is done already, from time to time.
Enterprising universities, capable of pushing the mammoth there. Teachers and researchers knowing innovate, undertake, it exists. But should change gear.