Canada's Affordability Success Story August 29th, 2018 - Alex Usher Canadians are regularly bombarded with stories about “rising tuition” and “ever-mounting student debt”, the implication always being that the middle-class is being priced out of higher education,...
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Canadá: Peculiaridades de su sistema ed educación terciaria
What Makes Canada Unique in Post-Secondary Education April 27th, 2018 - Alex Usher An Australian colleague of mine once suggested to me that I built my career primarily on filling in the holes in Statistics Canada’s severely limited PSE stats. I don’t think this is...
Ciencias sociales y servicio público
Public Service January 11th, 2018 - Alex Usher I have a strong message today. It's mostly for people in social science fields (especially Deans and Department heads), but I think Provosts, VPs Research and President will want to pay attention. The message is this:...
Sobre los doctorados en Canadá y países anglosajones
Cognitive Dissonance in Academia November 13th, 2017 - Alex Usher On a pretty regular basis, some academic or other pens a piece in the popular press talking about overproduction of PhDs. Take for example this 2015 Jonathan Wolff piece in the Guardian with a piece...
Éxito estudiantil, EEUU y Europa
Two Approaches to Student Success June 14th, 2017 - Alex Usher I've recently been doing a little bit of work recently on student success and I am struck by the fact that there are two very different approaches to student success, depending on which side of the...
Alex Usher: Sobre gratuidad en la educación superior con breve (y certera) referencia a Chile
The Free Tuition Impulse Posted on March 14, 2017 by Alex Usher A few weeks ago I presented yet more evidence about why free tuition was mostly a subsidy for the rich and was unlikely, on its own, to do very much with respect to equalizing access (scroll through...
Alex Usher: Cómo financiar la educación superior (3)
How to Fund (3) Alex Usher. Posted on February 16, 2017 by Paul You all may remember that in early 2015, the province of Ontario announced it was going to review its university funding formula. There was no particular urgency to do so, and many were puzzled as to “why...
Alex Usher: Cómo financiar la educación superior (2)
How to Fund (2) Posted on February 15, 2017 by Alex Usher As I noted yesterday, in Canada we have some kind of phobia about output-based funding. In the 1990s, Ontario and Alberta introduced, and then later killed, key performance indicators with funding attached....
Alex Usher: Cómo financiar la educación superior (1)
How to Fund (1) Posted on February 14, 2017 by Alex Usher Over the next three days, I want to talk about funding formulas. I know I did this a couple of years ago, at the start of the Ontario funding formula review exercise (see here, here, and here, but it’s...
Gratuidad en perspectiva comparada: USA, Canadá y Chile
New York, New York Posted on February 8, 2017 by Alex Usher With the Republicans in control of both Congress and the White house for at least the next two years, the fight for “free tuition” is moving to the state level. And so to New York, where Governor Cuomo has...
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Comunidad de Madrid: “Los dispositivos distraen”…
La prohibición de las pantallas avanza en los colegios, se acabó el optimismo tecnológico en educación: “Los...
España: Motivos de un mal PISA
El declive del rendimiento de los estudiantes en España: qué frena su mejora según el creador de PISA y otros expertos...
Ciencias sociales y la pobreza en Medio Oriente y África del Norte
La investigación en ciencias sociales es un arma contra la pobreza – Estudio Wagdy Sawahel , 12 de marzo de 2025 La...
Academia Chilena de Ciencias
Academia Chilena de Ciencias invita a ciclo de charlas sobre educación y ciencia 17-03-25 Carla Morales 0 comment . El...