Max Weber Invented the Crisis of the Humanities More than 100 years old, his landmark essay is more relevant than ever. February 6, 2020 By PAUL REITTER and CHAD WELLMON In the summer of 1917, a group of university students in Munich invited Max Weber to launch a...
¿Cuánto trabajan algunos académicos?
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...
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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...
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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…”
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Entrevista sobre educación en América Latina – diario El País
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