What will a shift to the right mean for higher education? Jan Petter Myklebust 21 January 2023 Since the Sweden Democrats (SD) became the largest member of the country’s right-wing bloc in last year’s elections, questions have been raised about how much impact the...
Reino Unido: Contexto político y educación superior post-Brexit
Post-Brexit educational mobilities – What’s next? Rachel Brooks and Johanna Waters 21 January 2023 Following its departure from the European Union in 2020, the United Kingdom left the Erasmus+ programme, which funded international mobility for higher education...
EEUU: Contexto político de la educación superior
Blue versus red states: Higher education policy-making in the US John Aubrey Douglass 21 January 2023 The midterm elections in the United States brought a sort of victory for President Joe Biden and the Democrats, including the retention of a slim majority in the...
Venezuela: Contexto político y universidades
Universities punished for defending democratic values Juan Carlos Navarro 21 January 2023 Venezuela has been in the headlines for quite some time, given a succession of several rather extreme events. Within a few years, more than six million migrants – out of a...
Europa: Contexto político y educación superior
Universities and elections: Democratic actors or reactors? Sjur Bergan 21 January 2023 When one explores the issue of universities and elections, as University World News does in this and its previous edition, one should ask at least three questions: are universities...
Contexto político global y educación superior
Higher education can reverse its democratic recession William G Tierney 21 January 2023 One need not be a linguist to acknowledge the fluidity of language. In 1977 Lewis B Mayhew, one of academe’s preeminent scholars of higher education, penned Legacy of the...
Brasil: Contexto político y educación superior
Cautious optimism in universities greets new president Lula Marcelo Knobel and Elizabeth Balbachevsky 08 January 2023 When Luíz Inácio Lula da Silva was sworn in as Brazil’s new president on 1 January 2023, he found higher education (and many other areas) a...
Jamil Salmi: Equidad en el ingreso a la educación superior
GLOBAL Equity in access and success in HE is no longer a luxury Jamil Salmi 24 January 2023 Despite the spectacular expansion that has occurred in many parts of the planet in the past 60 years, severe disparities persist in higher education. A disproportionately...
Sudáfrica: Corrupción en la educación superior
National task force for HE security after attack on university leader Edwin Naidu 14 January 2023 The apparent assassination attempt on one of South Africa’s top university leaders, in which his bodyguard was killed, has highlighted the threat of corruption that...
USA: Las nuevas condiciones postpandemia de la economía política universitaria
The Shrinking of Higher Ed In the past, colleges grew their way out of enrollment crises. This time looks different. By Karin Fischer, AUGUST 12, 2022 Nearly 1.3 million students have disappeared from American colleges during the Covid-19 pandemic, raising...
La prohibición de conocer como principio educativo
Teaching Ignorance in Florida Prohibitions on knowledge draw attention to what they prohibit. By Peter Brooks...
Un ejercicio con IA y sus limites
An AI-informed discussion of research methods in digital learning Tony Bates, January 12, 2024 Each year I do a...
Harvard y MIT: IA aplicada al acceso y retención
After pioneering edX, Harvard and MIT tackle online access afresh With Axim, elite university duo looks to aid...
Educación por competencias en España
El pedagogo Javier Valle: “El profesorado se siente abandonado ante el cambio educativo competencial” La...