Hundreds of university staff to be made redundant due to coronavirus Lecturers, researchers and support staff with insecure contracts at three universities will lose their jobs Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage David Batty Thu 2 Apr...
Covid-19 y perdida de aprendizajes: foco en equidad
Equity-Focused Approaches to Learning Loss during COVID-19 APRIL 16, 2020 Karen Mundy and Susannah Hares Follow With an estimated 91.3 percent or 1.57 billion students out of school worldwide, ministers of education are executing their plans for school during...
Educación superior y Covid-19 en Iberoamérica
IESALC INSTA A LOS ESTADOS A ASEGURAR EL DERECHO A LA EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR EN IGUALDAD DE OPORTUNIDADES ANTE EL COVID-19 En el Día Mundial de la Salud UNESCO lanza documento sobre la educación superior y el COVID-19 El cese temporal de las actividades...
Tipologías institucionales a nivel mundial
Problems in International Institutional Typology March 26th, 2020 - Alex Usher As you all know, a reasonable chunk of my work involves making international comparisons. This is far from simple in higher education because basic units of analysis differ enormously from...
Universidades británicas: rescate o fracaso?
Camilla Cavendish, Financial Times, April 3, 2019 Are universities too big to fail? As Covid-19 sweeps the globe, some UK universities, highly dependent on foreign students and summer courses for income, are looking into the abyss. Allowing a university to go bust...
Universidades de occidente e ingresos desde China
Rely on China. After the Virus, That May Not Last. In Britain, the United States and Australia, the coronavirus could blow huge holes in the budgets of universities that have “become addicted to one source of income.” University administrators are bracing for parents...
Llamado Revista ESS – Educación Superior y Sociedad
Abierta convocatoria para el número temático de la Revista ESS: contribución de la educación superior a los ODS Hasta el 31 de julio de 2020 está abierta la convocatoria para el envío de colaboraciones con destino al dossier temático Vol. 33, N°2 (julio-diciembre de...
Usher sobre planificación de escenarios para universidades (el caso de Canadá)
View as Webpage Coronavirus (8)-Scenario Planning March 30th, 2020 - Alex Usher For the last three weeks, life on university and college campuses has all been about doing what is needed to save the semester and move to remote learning/remote working format. I get...
Invitación a firmar un llamado de académicos internacionales sobre Covid-19 y las universidades
Hola: Recién firmé esta declaración sobre el papel de la comunidad de educación superior en la crisis de COVID-19. Creo que es muy importante. La firmarías también? Aquí está el link //forms.gle/KCQk77LRtyGHkS2B6 Olá, Eu acabei de assinar esta declaração da membros...
Alex Usher: coronavirus y docencia en línea
View as Webpage Coronavirus (9)-September & Big Classes Marchm31st, 2020 - Alex Usher (Yes, I know, I said I would try to stay off Coronavirus topics. But it’s bloody hard to talk about anything else, isn’t it?) One of the least attractive features of the modern...
El capital en la nube
Somos humildes siervos de los señores de la nube: bienvenidos al tecnofeudalismo Un nuevo capital mutante ha matado y...
Leer en casa y ventaja escolar
Los niños que leen en casa con sus padres llevan medio curso de ventaja respecto a los que no lo hacen La diferente...
Libertad académica en disputa en EEUU
The Fight Over Academic Freedom Amid spiraling campus speech debates, many professors are rallying in defense of a...
Hong Kong: Artes liberales y AI
Liberal arts universities in a ChatGPT era – How to adapt? Yojana Sharma 13 September 2023 A small liberal arts...