Should you be working 100 hours a week? Mary Beard’s recent admission that she is a ‘mug’ who works 100 hours a week caused a Twitter storm. But how hard is it reasonable for academics to work? Who should decide? And should the mugs be obliged to keep quiet? Seven...
Nuevas concepciones del PhD
The New Ph.D. Momentum grows to rewrite the rules of graduate training By Marc Parry February 16, 2020 PREMIUM (c) Meg Berkobien couldn’t do it anymore. She’d finished about three-quarters of a doctoral dissertation in comparative literature. Her advisers at the...
Consultas antes de definir políticas: Inglaterra y Australia
How to Make Policy February 12th 2020 - Alex Usher Take a ride with me. First stop, London, England. UK university funding is handled by an intermediate institution known as the Office for Students (OfS). The Government decides on the amount of money it wants to spend...
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Dear colleagues, We are pleased to send you the report on the Fourth International Conference on Future Education, which was held on November 11-13, 2019 in Belgrade, Serbia. It has been prepared on the basis of the recordings made during the event and the...
Flores para la educación pública en los EEUU
NEPC Valentine’s Day Special: A Dozen Roses for Public Education View this email in your browser Thursday, February 13, 2020 Newsletter NEPC Valentine’s Day Special: A Dozen Roses for Public Education SHARE THIS EMAIL: At their best, public schools in the U.S. educate...
Mercado laboral de graduados en Canadá
View as Webpage New Data on Labour Market Outcomes February 13th 2020 - Alex Usher A couple of weeks ago, the Labour Market Information Council released a whack of material, produced by Ross Finnie and his Education Policy Research Initiative, on graduate labour...
Federico Mayor Zaragoza: si visión de la educación
“Cuestión esencial: la Educación, los educadores” Other News, Feb 4 2020Por Federico Mayor Zaragoza* La educación es, como la justicia, la sanidad y la ciencia, tema supra-partido político. Se dirige a todos los ciudadanos, sin discriminación alguna, y no puede...
“Lo que nos ha traído hasta aquí ya no es suficiente…”
Lo que nos ha traído hasta aquí ya no es suficiente… Javier Martínez Aldanondo Socio Cultura de Aprendizaje de Knowledge Works [email protected] y [email protected] www.javiermartinezaldanondo.com Twitter: @javitomar “La verdadera generosidad hacia el futuro...
Universidad de California mantendrá pruebas de admisión
UC Faculty: Keep Tests, for Now The University of California's Academic Senate declines to endorse test-optional admissions policies for the system. By Lilah Burke February 4, 2020 The Academic Senate of the University of California assembled a task force in 2018 to...
México: La educación entre 2018 y 2024 – el inmenso reto ante lo inesperado
La educación entre 2018 y 2024: el inmenso reto ante lo inesperado Articulista Manuel Gil Antón. MANUEL GIL ANTÓN|...
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Nuestra democracia: ¿defectuosa o disfuncional? Lo que tenemos es una democracia activa, resiliente, adaptativa,...
España: progreso educativo
España acorta su histórica brecha educativa: “Sin estudios solo hay trabajo en hostelería, y es precario” El...
Richard Sennett a los ‘80
Richard Sennett: ‘I’ve always felt like a fish out of water in academia’ The feted urban sociologist Richard Sennett...