Sciences & Environnement

Un rapport de l'Igas révèle que la fraude sociale à l'Assurance maladie provient à 70 % de professionnels de santé, et non des assurés. Sur 628 millions d'euros détectés en 2024, les soignants concentrent 433 millions d'euros de préjudice, contre seulement 17,3 % pour les bénéficiaires. Les inspections recommandent de rééquilibrer les contrôles vers les dossiers à forts enjeux financiers.

Giles Sims, 34, was sick of getting passed over for jobs because he didn’t have a college degree. But with a wife and a widowed mother to help support, he needed a quick solution. So the laid-off web developer turned to one of a growing number of three-year degree programs. “I can’t afford to be out of the workforce for four years. That just seems like forever, and the three-year made it seem less daunting,” said Sims, a student at Ensign College, a private Salt Lake City school that recently changed all its bachelor’s degrees to require fewer classes than a traditional four-year degree. The condensed programs have exploded in popularity. As of this spring, 26 U.S. states have a college that offers at least one reduced-credit, three-year bachelor’s, according to the nonprofit research group RAND. Advocates say these programs are a solution to the college affordability crisis and a godsend for non-traditional students like Sims. Critics, however, worry that they’ll narrow too much what students learn, confuse employers, limit graduate school options and create headaches in fields that require state licenses. The American Association of University Professors, for one, says the programs devalue the meaning of a college credential. “This is not innovation. This is just cutting corners,” said Todd Wolfson, AAUP’s president. A new option to graduate more quickly, but with reduced credit For decades, colleges have offered accelerated programs that let students finish faster, often by forgoing long summer breaks, maximizing transfer credits and condensing semester-long courses into shorter, five- to 10-week terms. But those programs maintained the same course load, measured as credits. The new programs let students finish faster by completing as few as 90 credit hours. That shaves a year off the typical 120-hour bachelor’s degree. Three-year bachelor’s degrees are common in other countries including the United Kingdom, India, France and Italy. But they can create complications for graduates seeking admission to U.S. graduate schools, which sometimes require extra coursework. Some of the earliest colleges in colonial America, modeled after English institutions like Oxford and Cambridge, initially had three-year degrees, said John Thelin, the author of “A History of American Higher Education.” By the 19th century, the four-year format had taken hold, partly because there wasn’t an established system of public high schools to prepare students, Thelin said. “The colleges would have to kind of start from scratch,” he said. A change in accreditation opened the door to shorter degrees The idea of bringing three-year degrees to the U.S. got attention in 2009 when Robert Zemsky, the founding director of the Institute for Research on Higher Education at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, argued in a Newsweek cover story that three-year degrees could shake up a broken system. But there was a roadblock, he recalled recently. “Accreditors said, ‘College is 120 credits, not 90 credits,’” he said. Years passed. And in 2022, amid mounting concerns about college affordability, Zemsky helped revive the idea. The College-in-3 Exchange was born, and dozens of higher education institutions joined the network to look for ways to help students get degrees faster. The Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities was the first accreditor to say yes in 2023, when it approved reduced-credit programs at Ensign and Brigham Young University-Idaho. Other accreditors quickly followed. As of May, 119 reduced-credit programs had been publicly announced, according to the RAND analysis, which was conducted to help education officials in Ohio as they weigh the feasibility of reduced-credit degrees. It comes at a time when tuition and fees averaged $11,950 for in-state students at public schools and $45,000 at private nonprofits last school year, although many students get discounts that reduce the price, according to a report…

An abandoned railway trestle near the East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD) caught fire Saturday night in Oakland, according to firefighters. Just after 10 p.m. on Saturday, Oakland Fire said crews were battling a fire on the old train trestles near the EBMUD plant. They had asked residents living 3 miles west of the intersection of West Grand Avenue and Wake Avenue to keep their windows and doors closed until air quality conditions could improve. Although firefighters were able to keep the fire from spreading to the building, they had to battle spot fires in the yard at the treatment plant. On Sunday, fire crews said they were cooling hot spots on the trestles and then will get heavy equipment to pull down the still smoldering infrastructure.

The immigrant father of a sailor on board the beleaguered USS Abraham Lincoln was detained Saturday by immigration officials, family members said. Luis Manuel Aviles, originally from Nicaragua, was detained shortly after 11 a.m. ET in Key West, Florida, where he lives, stepdaughter Katty Delgado told NBC News on Saturday evening. She said that Aviles has been in the U.S. for roughly 20 years and that she has no knowledge of an arrest history or criminal allegations against him. “He’s doing everything the right way,” she said. The Department of Homeland Security confirmed Sunday that the Border Patrol arrested Aviles during a traffic stop in Key West. The agency said Aviles entered the U.S. illegally at an unknown date and location and would remain in ICE custody pending removal proceedings. “We are simply enforcing the laws passed by Congress. This Administration does not pick and choose which laws to enforce,” a DHS spokesperson said. Delgado said she learned the news from family members, including Aviles’ wife and his son Joshua Aviles, who posted a note about the detention on Facebook. Her stepfather, Delgado said, was arrested near a Publix supermarket as he was headed to a mechanic. Luis Manuel Aviles and his son Joshua Aviles.Katty Delgado Joshua Aviles said on Facebook that he’s on board the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, which is on its way back to the U.S. after its prolonged stretch at sea, including its deployment to the Middle East to engage in the war with Iran. “I’ve been deployed for over nine months, out at sea in the Middle East aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, fighting for a country that has given me everything,” he wrote Saturday. He said that his father is hard-working, giving and humble and that he has a work permit, a Social Security card and a driver’s license. “This is heartbreaking for me,” Joshua Aviles said. “I don’t know how I can mentally continue working 12+ hour days knowing that my dad is somewhere, possibly being treated like a criminal.” Asked to confirm whether Luis Manuel Aviles had a Social Security number, a work permit or pending immigration cases, as his family indicated, DHS told Telemundo, NBCUniversal’s Spanish-language network, that “work authorization or a pending application do NOT confer legal status in the United States.” The Lincoln left its home port of San Diego on Nov. 25, and, with more than eight months since it visited a port in December, it broke the Navy record for time without a port call. Relatives of sailors on board the carrier have described reports of deteriorating conditions and morale. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has said claims about the situation on board have been “completely misrepresented.” The Navy said Saturday that the Lincoln has officially left the Middle East en route to the West Coast, a journey that could take a month or more. Joshua Aviles, who told NBC News he has limited internet access, wrote on Facebook that he’s doing everything he can to get his father released from detention. “I love you with all my heart. Please stay strong. I’m coming home, Dad,” he wrote. War with Iran Aug 20 USS Lincoln headed home after extended deployment and concerns over conditions on board War with Iran Aug 10 Sailors report food shortages, poor conditions aboard USS Lincoln as deployment drags on President Donald Trump has stood by his administration’s immigration crackdown, including ICE’s expanded enforcement and arrests, which in recent months have included the arrests of children and spouses of service members, a San Diego Padres minor-league catching coordinator and a grandmother from India who’s a schoolteacher with a green card. Immigration authorities have detained more than 50 parents and spouses of service members during Trump’s second term, according to a recent Associated Press investigation. There has been backlash to the detentions, which come despite programs for military members that can sometimes offer immediate family protection from…

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