What Is Happening in Florida? Demands for diversity data, a governing-board overhaul, and a pledge to strip “trendy ideology” from higher ed. Is Ron DeSantis just getting started? By Francie Diep and Emma Pettit JANUARY 30, 2023 It’s been a dizzying month for...
España: masificación de las clases particulares
El auge de las clases particulares: los ricos las usan para diferenciar a sus hijos, los pobres para que no se queden atrás La mayor investigación sobre las extraescolares educativas realizada en España revela un mercado mucho mayor del calculado hasta ahora: casi la...
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...
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...
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...
La querella de las listas
OPINIÓN José Joaquín Brunner: La querella de las listas Insistir en una sola lista, como hacen el FA y el PC, significa prolongar la ficción de que continúa vigente la posibilidad de un proyecto de izquierda radical. Es decir, maximalista, refundacional, de ‘quiebre...
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...
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...
Nostalgia o restauración
Comparten una misma imposibilidad: imaginar un futuro que sí se nos viene encima. José Joaquín Brunner, 27 de Febrero...
UNESCO y los nuevos marcos de competencias en materia de IA
Los nuevos marcos de competencias en materia de IA de la UNESCO para estudiantes y docentes La Inteligencia Artificial...
El fin del gobierno Boric: cierre de un ciclo
El gobierno de Boric no fue el desastre que algunos proclaman ni la revolución inconclusa que otros lamentan. Fue, más...
Mineduc: del cambio de paradigma al realismo
José Joaquín Brunner, 22 de febrero de 2026 Con el fin del mandato del presidente Boric acercándose, la evaluación del...