That Was The Quarter That Was, Winter 2025 March 31, 2025 | Alex Usher I’m trying something new today. Every second Friday since last September, HESA’s Matt Doyle and I have been putting together the Fifteen – a list of interesting stories on higher education from...
La encuesta anti-DEI de Trump mirada desde Australia
La encuesta anti-DEI de Trump: Es hora de repensar nuestro sistema de investigación Brendan Walker-Munro, 17 de marzo de 2025 (Traducción automática de Google) Poco después de asumir el cargo, el presidente de los Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, emitió órdenes...
Universidad católica australiana: crisis de gobernabilidad
Leading Catholic university battles identity crisis ‘Crisis’ snowballed following A$1 million payout to short-serving law dean who was sympathetic to abortion John Ross, January 2, 2025 One of the world’s larger Catholic universities faces an identity crisis amid an...
Australia: necesidad de repensar la educación superior
Accord a missed opportunity, says departing Melbourne v-c ‘Big reset’ opportunity now spent when sector most needs it, says Duncan Maskell John Ross,December 2, 2024 A lack of “brave” thinking by a once-in-a-generation review has left Australian universities mired in...
Australia: Fijación de precios en la educación superior
‘Principles, not price’ should guide Australian fees: report Accord panellists’ ‘preferred options’ also include ‘equity levy’ on high-fee courses and no change to international education John Ross, June 20, 2024 An Australian report has outlined principles for...
Política australiana para la educación superior por A lex Usher
Are We Out of Ideas? I was prepping yesterday for my podcast interview with Australian higher education expert Andrew Norton on the subject of the Australian Universities’ Accord (watch for it a week tomorrow) and while reading the report—which is a competent one, as...
Australia: Avance de la burocracia universitaria intermedia
Explosion of middle managers ‘ruining university life’ The gulf is growing between self-perpetuating middle management and the people who ‘produce the value’, Australian symposium hears John Ross, September 15, 2023 A Kafkaesque instinct for bureaucratic...
Australia: Ética proyectos de humanidades
Australian scientists join outcry over humanities research veto Leading scholars from Australian universities have joined scientific bodies to demand reversal of pre-election veto of humanities grants Jack Grove, January 10, 2022 Dozens of Australia’s leading...
Australia: Aranceles y elección de carreras
View as Webpage Two New Data Points on the Effects of Tuition Fees April 29th, 2021 - Alex Usher Over the past two decades, tuition rises in Canada have been relatively low: on average, we consistently see rises of about 1-2% above inflation, with almost no sudden...
Universidades australianas: repensarse tras la pandemia
Rethink how you do everything, Australian universities urged Reassessing operations through an institutional mission lens will prove more palatable than business-driven decisions, says ex-Adelaide boss January 14, 2021 John Ross Australian universities have been urged...
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Cambios laborales por IA Anjli Raval, Financial Times,09062025 (Traducción automática de Google). Durante la llamada...
La universidad y sus contradictorias lógicas
La universidad y sus contradictorias lógicas ''Solo bajo condiciones en que la libre creación de ideas y...
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Informe de habilidades globales 2025: Perspectivas de más de 170 millones de estudiantes de todo el mundo Leer el...
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Polvo en el viento Manuel Gil Antón Es posible entender, no descalificar, las posiciones del gobierno y del CNTE. ¿Sin...