When Will Tech Disrupt Higher Education? KENNETH ROGOFF, 5 February 2018 Universities pride themselves on producing creative ideas that disrupt the rest of society, yet higher-education teaching techniques continue to evolve at a glacial pace. Given education’s...
Nuevo Rector de Harvard
Harvard Picks Former Tufts President as Its New Leader By Andy Thomason and Adam Harris FEBRUARY 11, 2018 Bill Sikes, AP Images Lawrence Bacow Harvard University has chosen for its 29th president a veteran leader of elite colleges. Lawrence S. Bacow, a former...
Educación de ingenieros: una visión de futuro
Transforming Undergraduate Education in Engineering By Colleen Flaherty February 9, 2018 The American Society for Engineering Education published two new reports as part of its Transforming Undergraduate Education in Engineering project. A previously published report...
Ecpnomista cuestiona utilidad de la educación
An Economist Argues That Our Education System Is Largely By Scott Carlson JANUARY 29, 2018 Copyright © 2018 The Chronicle of Higher Education Economics, it has been said, is the dismal science, and Bryan Caplan is pessimistic indeed. A professor of economics at George...
Laureate y su política corporativa para 2018
Laureate Shifts Focus Global education giant Laureate sells off some international institutions and refocuses on emerging markets. By Ashley A. Smith January 31, 2018 It was nearly a year ago that Laureate Education, a public benefit company that owns the nation’s...
International Higher Education: nuevo número
Our first issue of 2018 features an insightful selection of articles on internationalization—a key topic in this era of nationalism. Additional articles on the university presidency, trends in scientific communication, the new excellence initiative in France, the...
Sobre los doctorados en Canadá y países anglosajones
Cognitive Dissonance in Academia November 13th, 2017 - Alex Usher On a pretty regular basis, some academic or other pens a piece in the popular press talking about overproduction of PhDs. Take for example this 2015 Jonathan Wolff piece in the Guardian with a piece...
El costo y la riqueza de las universidades de los EEUU
How Rich Universities Get Richer … and leave everyone else behind By Charles T. Clotfelter OCTOBER 27, 2017 PREMIUM (Copyright © 2017 The Chronicle of Higher Education) Over the last 40 years, no one has proposed that the guiding purpose of higher education should be...
Alex Usher sobre gratuidad
Why the American Tuition Debate is Different (redux) October 18th, 2017 - Alex Usher As many of you know, I've been around the block a few times around the issue of "free tuition" (see here here here and here for a few examples if you're interested/have forgotten/find...
USA: Visión Ministra de Educación
DeVos undeterred by critics even as agenda remains stalled By MARIA DANILOVA https://apnews.com/f300e3b55c6e4407b49fcc9881f3efa1 Link copied! WASHINGTON (AP) — Among the paintings and photographs that decorate Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’ sunlit, spacious office...
Nuevo fondo de financiamiento para la investigación
Presidente Boric anunció nuevo fondo de financiamiento a investigación para las Universidades En sesión conmemorativa...
¿Cuál es el problema?
¿Cuál es el problema? Por: Manuel Gil Antón (Colaboración para El Universal), Profesor del Centro de Estudios...
España: Universidades en ranking de Shanghái
Las universidades españolas resisten en el ‘ranking’ de Shanghái ante la pujanza de las chinas Estados Unidos lidera...
España: Universidades públicas ahogadas
Universidades públicas ahogadas La apuesta por los centros privados de la Comunidad de Madrid no puede hacerse en...