Growing Federal Subsidies for Graduate Loan Debt Almost half of federal student loans are being repaid through more generous income-driven repayment plans, new data show, with 80 percent of government subsidies now going to graduate student borrowers. Almost half of...
Primarias en EEUU y propuestas demócratas para la educación superior
View as Webpage Higher Education and the Democratic Primaries, 2020 February 3rd 2020 - Alex Usher The Iowa caucuses take place south of the border tonight. The Democratic Primary has come down to four serious candidates – Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Pete...
Serie de 4 artículos de Alex Usher sobre créditos estudiantiles
DESIGNING STUDENT AID PROGRAMS FROM SCRATCH (1) DECEMBER 2, 2019 | ALEX USHER Over the years, I have concluded that one of the reasons policy debate can be so stifling is we’re usually debating options within existing policy parameters: that is, “fixes” to existing...
EEUU: Gratuidad o becas en plataformas electorales de candidatos presidenciales
The Moderates' Alternative to Free College Joe Biden becomes latest Democratic presidential hopeful to call for huge increases in the federal Pell Grant program instead of free college policies favored by standard bearers on the left. By Andrew Kreighbaum, October 9,...
Alex Usher sobre deuda y aranceles
View as Webpage A New(ish) Argument About Debt and Tuition June 11th, 2019 - Alex Usher As I am starting to sketch out the bones of my next book, (semi-serious working title: How Tuition Fees Will Save the World ) , I am collecting arguments about the nature and...
La oposición frente al crédito estudiantil
Salvataje a la gratuidad: senadores de oposición le rayan la cancha a Cubillos y piden modificar el “CAE 2.0” para aprobar idea de legislar por Macarena Segovia 9 abril, 2019 A través de un documento (asimismo, ver al final) que será firmado por todos los senadores y...
La próxima crisis
La próxima crisis "Los problemas que actualmente afectan al financiamiento de la educación superior la están erosionando. El Gobierno lo sabe y no puede desligarse de ellos. De prolongarse, estos conflictos conducirán a una crisis del sistema, empequeñeciendo su...
Fallido sistema de gratuidad
Opinión Fallido sistema de gratuidad SAB 23 MAR 2019 | 01:23 AM SEÑOR DIRECTOR Por fin comienza a expresarse un amplio acuerdo en torno a la idea que el diseño de la gratuidad parcial de la educación superior no solo es equivocado, sino, además, dañino. Aún sus más...
Usher sobre ayudas estudiantiles: claves contemporáneas
View as Webpage Income Share Agreements Part 1 March 4th, 2019 - Alex Usher Every once in awhile, someone comes up a “new” concept in student financing and people get very excited about it. As in most other policy fields, the “newness” is a matter of perspective and...
Racionamiento de creditos estudiantiles en países seleccionados
View as Webpage Rationing Loans February 8th, 2019 - Alex Usher While student loans are cheaper (and hence more commonly used) than grants, they still cost money, both in terms of interest subsidies and in terms of loan losses through loan defaults. As a result,...
Humanidades, ¿amenazadas en Holanda por reestructuración financiera?
Humanities cuts ‘harbinger’ of bleak future for Dutch sector Area studies and languages at risk at Leiden University,...
¿Triunfó la moderación?
¿Triunfó la moderación? ''El frente moderado supuestamente victorioso experimenta un cúmulo de dificultades''. José...
Plagiarismo y su evolución
What the right’s ‘plagiarism war’ really tells us about academic writing Plagiarism accusations that led to the...
Conferencia “Gobernanza universitaria y desafíos de la Universidad en Chile”
Video You Tuve aquí 30 de octubre, 2024 Conferencia “Gobernanza universitaria y desafíos de la Universidad en...