Canadian University Finances 2016-17 (Expenditures) September 5th, 2018 - Alex Usher Ver anterior blog sobre ingresos de las universidades canadienses Good morning. Yesterday, I took a look at some recent trends in income at Canadian universities; today I want to...
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Evaluación de los docentes de educación superior: una mirada desde Canadá
Time to Talk Teaching Assessments Something very important happened over the summer: The Ryerson Faculty Union won its case against the university in Ontario Superior Court against the use of student teaching evaluations in tenure and promotion decisions (it...
Canadá: Expansión y pago de la educación superior
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,...
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....
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Frente al ataque de Trump a las universidades
Ataque estadounidense a los valores democráticos: se necesita un frente unido Jo Ritzen , ex Ministro de Educación...
A. Usher: Costos de la IA en la educación postsecundaria
Un pensamiento para empezar el día 21 DE MAYO DE 2025 | ALEX USHER Las implicaciones de costos de la IA en la...
España: El lastre de la Universidad pública
El lastre de la Universidad pública La LOSU sigue sin cumplirse y los campus continúan sufriendo las consecuencias de...
Nuevo artículo circulado por Gregory Elacqua
Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to announce our new study "Temporary Teachers in Latin America and the Caribbean" (by...