THE CHRONICLE REVIEW Is Email Making Professors Stupid? It used to simplify crucial tasks. Now it’s strangling scholars’ ability to think By CAL NEWPORT Donald Knuth is one of the world’s most famous living computer scientists. He’s known for his pioneering efforts...
Grupo Laureate: ajustes y proyecciones
BRIEF For-profit Laureate sells St. Augustine for $400M, holds onto Walden U By Ben Unglesbee, Feb. 7, 2019 Dive Brif For-profit college operator Laureate Education has completed a sale of its University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences (USAHS) school to the...
Encuesta Aequalis: Rectores sobre reformas 2014-2018
BOLETÍN INFORMATIVO N°48 Febrero 2019 Nota técnica AEQUALIS: 63% rectores IES estima que nueva Ley educación superior no las favorece El 79% estima que la autonomía no queda debidamente resguardada con el nuevo marco regulatorio Los resultados de la muestra dados a...
Simon Schwartzman: Universidade para todos? (2)
Universidade para todos? (2) By Simon on Feb 02, 2019 10:38 am (Publicado no site GaúchaZH e Jornal Zero Hora de Porto Alegre) Com somente 18% da população entre 25 e 34 anos com educação superior, o Brasil está muito atrasado neste aspecto, se comparado com Colômbia...
Reforma a la Comisión Nacional de Acreditación
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Simón Schwartzman: ¿Universidad para todos?
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EE.UU – colleges rurales
Mitch Smith, January 13, 2019 STEVENS POINT, Wis. — Chancellor Bernie Patterson’s message to his campus was blunt: To remain solvent and relevant, his 125-year-old university needed to reinvent itself. Some longstanding liberal arts degrees, including those in...
Francia: Ingreso selectivo a la universidad
French university admissions: the crème de la crème? Reforms to the French university admission system have ushered in greater selectivity in an attempt to address high dropout rates. But without adequate filtering by family background, will this disproportionately...
Nuevo trato entre rectores
Integran el consejo asesor de la ministra Cubillos El nuevo “trato” de los rectores Hasta hace poco en trincheras distintas, los rectores de la Universidad de Chile y de los Andes revelan la “nueva etapa” de colaboración en que están embarcados, intentando dejar atrás...
Reforma al financiamiento de universidades australianas
Piecemeal Australian reforms ‘could cost more than they save’ Lowering of student loan repayment threshold to recoup an extra A$20 million (£11.3 million) but cost A$19 million January 11, 2019 By John Ross Experts have warned that piecemeal reforms to Australian...
Elecciones de gobiernos 2024 y papel de la educación superior
How will universities fare in 2024’s ‘year of elections’? As countries that are home to around half of the world’s...
Noruega: Auge de la filosofía, las humanidades y la interdiscipliba
Five ERC grants: Philosophy is the new star at Oslo University Jan Petter Myklebust 19 January 2024 The discipline of...
La IA y el futuro de las universidades
Generative AI action hints at core future roles in universities Karen MacGregor 28 January 2024 With the arrival of...
China: incentivos monetarios a los investigadores PoP
Young researcher salaries top those in US, UK, Australia Yojana Sharma 18 March 2021 Post-doctoral researchers at top...