Latin America: COVID-19 Challenges Higher Education By Eric Hershberg, Alexandra Flinn-Palcic, and Christopher Kambhu* The COVID‑19 pandemic has worsened the challenges that Latin American universities already faced and could have a potentially catastrophic impact on...
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Latin American universities ‘facing greatest crisis in decades’ Survey of academics in region finds widespread predictions of enrolment decline, budget cuts and concerns over lack of preparation for online education June 2, 2020 By Ellie Bothwell The vast majority of...
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Planning for School Reopening and Recovery After COVID-19 Shelby Carvalho , Jack Rossiter , Noam Angrist , Susannah Hares and Rachel Silverman MAY 29, 2020 DOWNLOAD PDF Most governments around the world have temporarily closed schools in an attempt to contain the...
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¿Cómo organizamos la vuelta a la escuela? May 21, 2020 3.31pm EDT Mariano Fernández Enguita Catedrático de Sociología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid Disclosure statement Mariano Fernández Enguita no recibe salario, ni ejerce labores de consultoría, ni posee...
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IN PANDEMUS VERITAS MAY 25, 2020 | ALEX USHER One of the most interesting things about the pandemic is the questions it raises about the price of education. Can institutions reasonably expect to charge what they normally charge, given that the quality of an...
Social Scientists on COVID-19
Social Scientists on COVID-19 What motivates people to wear masks, the effects of social isolation on children and the elderly, infection rates among the incarcerated. These are just some of the COVID-19 research topics social scientists are investigating right now....
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View as Webpage In Pandemus Veritas May 25th, 2020 - Alex Usher One of the most interesting things about the pandemic is the questions it raises about the price of education. Can institutions reasonably expect to charge what they normally charge, given that the...
Community colleges permanecerán en línea
Community Colleges Likeliest to Stay Virtual As most four-year colleges continue to announce intentions to reopen campuses in the fall, many community colleges have said they will remain (mostly) virtual. By Madeline St. Amour May 20, 2020 Many of the institutions...
Exámenes de admisión: Universidad de California
Dropping the SAT and ACT -- for Good University of California plan could change the role of standardized testing in admissions -- and not just for the UC system. By Scott Jaschik May 18, 2020 University of California president Janet Napolitano last week proposed a...
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30 April 2020 by Vincent Carpentier COVID-19, long economic cycles and the prospects of a new world This blog originally ran on the UCL Blog Series #013: Education in the Time of COVID-19. The eruption of COVID-19 has (re)generated discussions about the possible...
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