Improving Quality Without Increasing Professorial Workloads Yesterday, I spoke about the desirability of changing the nature of academic work – specifically, dividing the assessment part of the job from the instructional part by creating a group of employees that...
Régimen de trabajo academic por Alex Usher
Reducing Work February 14, 2023 | Alex Usher Recently, I asked my Twitter followers who taught in universities about the part of their job they liked the least. I asked because I am pretty convinced Canadian higher education isn’t going to get through the next decade...
Hungría: privatización de universidades públicas
Hungría consagra el golpe a sus universidades públicas: “Los académicos todavía están en ‘shock” El Gobierno ultraconservador de Viktor Orbán ahonda la estrategia para controlar los campus a través de privatizaciones a fundaciones afines. Solo quedan seis...
China: admisión a la educación superior
La competencia, la puerta de entrada en la universidad china El país es testigo de una expansión sin precedentes de la educación superior, que ha creado el sistema de estudios más grande del mundo JUAN JOSÉ PRIETO GUTIÉRREZ 30 ENE 2023 La educación superior en China...
Meritocracia versus habitus
Behind the elite university’s ‘visage of meritocracy’ Nathan M Greenfield 01 February 2023 ,Far from being bastions of intellectual inquiry and meritocracy, in both Britain and the United States elite universities reproduce the ethnic, racial and class divisions...
Vodolazkin: Historia rusa
AMERICA'S MOST INFLUENTIAL JOURNAL OF RELIGION AND PUBLIC LIFE AT LENIN'S TOMB by Eugene Vodolazkin, February 2022 History, to the modern mind, has a goal and follows the path of progress, so that new becomes identified with better. It was on this basis that,...
ChatGDP: reacciones desde el mundo universitario
Sciences Po bans ChatGPT amid HE quality, integrity fears Karen MacGregor 03 February 2023 Leading French grande école Sciences Po has banned the use of ChatGPT, the new chatbot capable of instantly writing essays, that has sparked consternation in higher education...
Deuda estudiantil: plan Biden
DECEMBER 8, 2022 | ALEX USHER The Politics of Student Loan Debt I am sure most of my readers are aware of the Biden Administration’s plans to forgive student loans. However, what may have gone under the radar is the way the current administration is staking a lot of...
Reino Unido: Contexto político y educación superior post-Brexit
Post-Brexit educational mobilities – What’s next? Rachel Brooks and Johanna Waters 21 January 2023 Following its departure from the European Union in 2020, the United Kingdom left the Erasmus+ programme, which funded international mobility for higher education...
Venezuela: Contexto político y universidades
Universities punished for defending democratic values Juan Carlos Navarro 21 January 2023 Venezuela has been in the headlines for quite some time, given a succession of several rather extreme events. Within a few years, more than six million migrants – out of a...
Papel de la IA en la prospectiva científica
LLMs outclass humans at predicting neuroscience results Nathan M Greenfield 10 December 2024 Large language models...
Harald Beyer: Un gran engaño
Viernes 27 de diciembre de 2024 Un gran engaño Señor Director: Un poco más del 53% de los jóvenes que fueron admitidos...
Investigadores del CIAE: evidencia sobre el SAE
5 mitos sobre el SAE que debes saber: Investigadores del CIAE desmienten con evidencia jueves, 19 de diciembre de 2024...
La crisis de comunicación en las ciencias
Mapping (but not solving) the science communication crisis Philip G Altbach and Hans de Wit 11 December 2024...