Improving Quality Without Increasing Professorial Workloads Yesterday, I spoke about the desirability of changing the nature of academic work – specifically, dividing the assessment part of the job from the instructional part by creating a group of employees that...
China: admisión a la educación superior
La competencia, la puerta de entrada en la universidad china El país es testigo de una expansión sin precedentes de la educación superior, que ha creado el sistema de estudios más grande del mundo JUAN JOSÉ PRIETO GUTIÉRREZ 30 ENE 2023 La educación superior en China...
La lucha por la legitimidad del proceso constitucional
La lucha por la legitimidad del proceso constitucional En realidad, el mayor riesgo que enfrenta el proceso constitucional es perder su legitimidad. Es también el objetivo que empujan las fuerzas que —desde uno y otro extremo— desean su fracaso. por José Joaquín...
Meritocracia versus habitus
Behind the elite university’s ‘visage of meritocracy’ Nathan M Greenfield 01 February 2023 ,Far from being bastions of intellectual inquiry and meritocracy, in both Britain and the United States elite universities reproduce the ethnic, racial and class divisions...
Deuda estudiantil: plan Biden
DECEMBER 8, 2022 | ALEX USHER The Politics of Student Loan Debt I am sure most of my readers are aware of the Biden Administration’s plans to forgive student loans. However, what may have gone under the radar is the way the current administration is staking a lot of...
CFT estatales
CFT Estatales de Chile: una política descentralizadora y de justicia social por Ramón Rubio Donoso 3 febrero, 2023 Las comunidades que han recibido a los CFT, conocen el valor e impacto de esta descentralizadora política pública, y comunas como Alto Hospicio, Ovalle,...
Suecia: Educación superior en nuevo contexto político
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...
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...
Nuevo estudio de Gregory Elacqua: rotación docente e incentivos monetarios
Teacher turnover is a major challenge for schools globally, particularly affecting disadvantaged students in urban...
La mesa técnica creada para el Sistema de Admisión Escolar (SAE)
Los nudos expuestos durante la mesa técnica creada para mejorar el Sistema de Admisión Escolar (SAE) Durante esta...
Política de acuerdos y sus múltiples consecuencias
Política de acuerdos y sus múltiples consecuencias La oposición constructiva de derechas logra llevar adelante una...
Crisis de salud mental en universidades británicas
Support from academics ‘can make student mental health worse’ Attempts by well-meaning scholars to help services...