Pathways In Education And Access To Employment
This paper aims to compare the pathways in education and the access to employment of young French graduates from the two principal tertiary short vocational tracks: the Advanced Technical Courses (STS ) and the Technological University Institutes (IUT). The originality of this comparison lies in its re-examination of these educational pathways in the light of individual trajectories onto the labour market, and the perspectives that emerge. Not only course changes, dropouts or academic failures but also successfully completed studies are viewed here as elements in the increasing complexity of training pathways, based on which career guidance upstream and its effect on the transition options from education to employment downstream will be examined. The comparison of pathways during and following higher education revolves around three key questions: - What similarities and differences can be observed between the careers strategies and the academic profiles of students following IUT and STS tracks? - What progress is made by enrolees to these tracks during higher education and what determining factors explain the different structures? - In what ways do these differentiated educational pathways result in more or less effective access into the labour market?
Les étudiants des STS et des IUT: Comparaison des conditions d'orientation, des parcours de formation et d'insertion
Ce document de travail compare les filieres STS et IUT, sur lesquelles le debat public actuel est actif (Partie I). Parmi les jeunes ayant quitte le systeme educatif en 2004, 150 000 avaient integre ces filieres selectives juste apres leur baccalaureat : 105 000 en STS, 43 000 en IUT. Analyser ou sont alles ces jeunes a la suite de leur formation en STS ou en IUT pose, en miroir, la question de savoir d'ou ils viennent, quelles ont ete leurs conditions d'orientation (Partie II), leurs itineraires dans l'enseignement superieur (Partie III) et les conditions de leur insertion dans l'emploi au cours de leurs trois premieres annees de vie active (Partie IV).
Creating the Virtual Universe
Simulation software is important to our understanding of the universe. The intrinsic multiphysics aspects are spiced with a range of temporal scales and spatial scales, both of which cover more digits than are available in the standard hardware. This, together with the intrinsic chaotic nature of many physical processes, poses quite a challenge. To meet this challenge, researchers developed the Astronomical Multipurpose Environment (AMUSE). Instead of writing a suite of multiphysics solvers from scratch, AMUSE's developers coupled existing solvers for each physical ingredient. The result is a highly inhomogeneous collection of dedicated solvers with a homogeneous protocol that scales to supercomputers.