Governments need to think carefully about eliminating tuition fees The Labour Party in the UK, like the Democrats in the US, hopes to be elected on a policy of abolishing student fees. Roger Smyth draws on the experience of New Zealand to challenge the rationale for...
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Acceso a la educación superior en países nórdicos
View as Webpage Nordic Student Aid, Nordic Access November 20th, 2019 - Alex Usher A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a little bit about Nordic countries and some of the trade-offs they consider in order to keep tuition fees at zero when public funding is under stress. I...
Estudiantes y las tribus disciplinarias
View as Webpage Best of-Student Stereotypes in Four Graphs October 11th, 2019 - Alex Usher A steady travel itinerary has limited Alex's writing time, so we present this "Best of," from 2012, drawing on HESA's CanEd Student Research Panel. While some findings might be...
Más formación general
Más formación general Señor Director: Don Arsenio Fernández Calatayud, gerente general de SNA Educa, en su carta del 1 de octubre responde a mi propuesta de aumentar las horas de formación general para los colegios de modalidad técnico-profesional, diciendo que...
Del adoctrinamiento a la censura educativa
Del adoctrinamiento a la censura educativa La derecha utiliza unos argumentos muy peligrosos para el sistema educativo, cuestionando no simplemente la libertad de cátedra sino la profesionalidad de los docentes María Luz Martínez Seijo es secretaria de Educación y...
Formación técnico profesional en España y Europa
España casi duplica los alumnos de FP en 10 años, pero sigue por debajo de la media de la OCDE El curso arranca con más de 23.000 nuevos estudiantes en Formación Profesional. El 12% se decanta por esa rama, frente al 26% en los países de la organización ANA TORRES...
Libro reciente: Is College Merely Helping Those Who Need Help Least?
Is College Merely Helping Those Who Need Help Least? By Tara Westover THE YEARS THAT MATTER MOST How College Makes or Breaks Us By Paul Tough I am — to capitulate fully to the nomenclature — a “first gen,” meaning a first-generation college graduate. For me, as for...
Costo de las universidades: qué y cómo calcular
Managing Class Sizes (Part 1) September 18th, 2019 - Alex Usher One of the things that many people misunderstand about higher education is the way the economics of classrooms actually work; in particular about the relationship between enrolments, teaching complements,...
¿Por qué no la gratuidad? Una reflexión desde USA
Free Public College Is a Terrible Idea By Brian Rosenberg SEPTEMBER 13, 2019 PREMIUM Now that the race for the Democratic nomination for president is becoming more serious, it is time to take an equally serious look at the proposal for tuition-free public college...
¿Existe el mérito y hay meritocracia?
Does meritocracy stall social mobility, entrench an undeserving elite, and undermine trust in higher education? Joan Wong for The Chronicle September 13, 2019 That seems to be the emerging bipartisan consensus. “On the evidence we have, the meritocratic ideal ends up...
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Universidades británicas: ¿Controlar el acceso?
Fresh calls for number controls after elites take more students Academics question why some universities should be...
Complejo ideológico PC
Complejo ideológico PC "Aún se concibe a sí mismo como un partido leninista, que tolera la democracia formal burguesa...
Ciencia abierta versus editoriales académicas
Academic Publishers Threatened By Open-Access Expansion Critics say a directive to make federally funded research...
Gasto en investigación y desarrollo
Gasto en investigación y desarrollo Hugo Lavados, Rector USS, 27 de agosto de 2024 Es destacable la producción...