A European Perspective on Three-Year Degrees Posted on March 11, 2014 by Alex Usher Glen Murray may be gone, but the allure of three-year bachelor’s degrees remains. In future, my guess is that they’ll be much like the German apprenticeship system – an...
Ingreso de los graduados: ¿buen indicador de calidad de la educación superior?
The Pitfalls of Comparing Colleges Based on Postgraduate Earnings March 5, 2014 by Jonah Newman This is the third in a series of posts about the data that are likely to appear in the Obama administration’s proposed college-ratings system. The first post looked...
Rol (des) igualador de la educación superior
The Great Divide March 1, 2014, 2:30 pm College, the Great Unleveler By SUZANNE METTLER The Great Divide is a series about inequality. When the G.I. Bill of Rights of 1944 made colleges accessible to veterans regardless of socioeconomic background,...
Costo posiblemente riesgoso de ciertas medidas pro equidad en el acceso
Ratings Strategy With a Cost? March 3, 2014 By Michael Stratford Of all the criticism leveled at the Obama administration’s plan to rate colleges, perhaps the most widespread critique is that a ratings system will harm disadvantaged students' access to higher...
La movilidad económica y el crecimiento de la clase media en América Latina
Publicación del Banco Mundial, autores: Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Julian Messina, Jamele Rigolini, Luis-Felipe López-Calva,Maria Ana Lugo, y Renos Vakis Bajar el documento aquí <PDF/ 4,7MB>
Becas en problema: España
Las nuevas becas llegan tarde y solo con parte del dinero 250.000 estudiantes han recibido únicamente la cuantía fija de la beca En el ecuador del curso, unos 47.000 alumnos no han cobrado aún nada El nuevo sistema de cálculo de las ayudas dificulta el pago a tiempo...
Alemania retorna al no-pago de aranceles: Materiales para el debate
Germany’s great tuition fees U-turn 13 February 2014 Could England force a similar reversal? Howard Hotson asks Source: Getty England has the most extravagant provision of elite private schooling and some of the lowest levels of social mobility in the developed...
Higher Education and its Principal Mission: Preparing Students for Life, Work and Civic Engagement
Registration Higher Education and its Principal Mission: Preparing Students for Life, Work and Civic Engagement We hope that you will find the information you may need to be able to join us in St. John’s, NL, Canada in August 2014. We will post announcements regarding...
Evaluación de la educación superior en México
Los invitamos nuevamente a consultar el número especial recientemente editado "La evaluación en el campo de la educación superior", coordinado por el Dr. Mario Rueda Beltrán y la Dra. Susana García Salord. La importancia de este número radica en que los especialistas...
La discusión sobre el ranking de Obama
Rating (and Berating) the Ratings Doug Lederman, Michael Stratford and Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher ED, February 7, 2014 WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration on Thursday released hundreds of pages of formal comments on its proposed college rating system,...
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...
Financiamiento: Educación superior en la encrucijada
Educación superior en la encrucijada Cuando se habla de diversidad y se defiende esta consigna, eso debe ser integral....
La larga sombra del origen socioeconómico en el estrellato de las ciencias
Inequality in Science: Who Becomes a Star? Anna Airoldi & Petra Moser Working Paper 33063 DOI 10.3386/w33063 Issue...