Teaching in an Age of ‘Militant Apathy’ Immersive education offers a way to reach students. But can it ever become the norm? By Beth McMurtrie FEBRUARY 15, 2023 It is a strange time to be an undergraduate. Life may feel apocalyptic, buffeted by climate crisis, social...
EEUU: Docencia de pregrado en debate
Course Correction Students expect ‘total flexibility’ in the pandemic-era classroom. But is that really what they need? By Beckie Supiano FEBRUARY 13, 2023 For all the well-known frustrations of remote instruction, Mark A. Sarvary anticipated that moving back...
Podcast conversación de Alex Usher con Jamil Salmi
FEBRUARY 23, 2022 | ALEX USHER The World of Higher Education Podcast Access Gaps in Low- and Middle-Income Countries S1 E4: Access Gaps in Low- and Middle-Income Countries Guest: Jamil Salmi Morning all. Today is Thursday and hence podcast day. Today’s guest is my...
Crisis humanitarias y educación
La educación no puede parar En el mundo, 222 millones de niños y adolescentes que viven afectados por crisis humanitarias no tienen acceso a una educación adecuada. Priorizar la cobertura de sus necesidades básicas debe incluir a la educación PILAR ORENES 24 ENE 2023...
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,...
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...
Reforma educacional en México por M. Gil Antón
La Nueva Escuela Mexicana: una propuesta radical MANUEL GIL ANTÓN| 16/03/2024 |04:06 |Actualizada Manuel Gil Antón La...
Texto leido con ocasión del 30 aniversario del gobierno del Presidente Frei Ruiz Tagle
Estimado Presidente, amigas y amigos: Ustedes bien saben que el Presidente ordena y a los voceros no les queda otra...
Atrincherados
Atrincherados "En ambos frentes surge la interrogante: ¿en qué país vive el adversario?" José Joaquín Brunner, El...
Qué hace a una universidad
Don’t ditch research quality benchmarks, universities say Australian institutions say new research rules are not to...