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...
ChatGDP: reacciones desde el mundo universitario
Sciences Po bans ChatGPT amid HE quality, integrity fears Karen MacGregor 03 February 2023 Leading French grande école Sciences Po has banned the use of ChatGPT, the new chatbot capable of instantly writing essays, that has sparked consternation in higher education...
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...
EEUU: Contexto político de la educación superior
Blue versus red states: Higher education policy-making in the US John Aubrey Douglass 21 January 2023 The midterm elections in the United States brought a sort of victory for President Joe Biden and the Democrats, including the retention of a slim majority in the...
USA: Las nuevas condiciones postpandemia de la economía política universitaria
The Shrinking of Higher Ed In the past, colleges grew their way out of enrollment crises. This time looks different. By Karin Fischer, AUGUST 12, 2022 Nearly 1.3 million students have disappeared from American colleges during the Covid-19 pandemic, raising...
Libertad académica en America Latina y EEUU
Is Academic Freedom a Human Right? In Mexico, a conference raises provocative questions about politics and the university By Jeffrey Aaron Snyder JANUARY 11, 2023 Is academic freedom a basic human right? This was just one of many provocative questions I had...
Neoliberalismo y cultura woke
Citadels of Neoliberalism or Bastions of Wokism? What elite higher ed’s critics on both the left and the right get wrong. By David A. Bell, professor of history at Princeton University. DECEMBER 9, 2022 No one seems to like America’s elite universities these days,...
Chomsky sobre educación
Noam Chomsky: “Los intentos de poner la educación superior al servicio del sector privado toman formas casi cómicas” El lingüista señaló que "las tendencias educativas impulsadas por el mercado son muy reales y dañinas. Deberían, creo, ser consideradas como parte del...
Escuelas de derecho de Yale y Harvard se retiran de U.S. News Rankings
Yale and Harvard Law Schools Withdraw From the U.S. News Rankings Citing flaws in the way the ratings are determined, the schools said they will stop participating, breaking away from the rankings industry. By Anemona Hartocollis Nov. 16, 2022 Sign Up for the...
Huelga que cimbra a la Universidad de California
UNIVERSIDAD DE CALIFORNIA Pobreza en el Olimpo académico de EE UU: la huelga que cimbra a la Universidad de California Cerca de 50.000 trabajadores académicos suman más de 10 días de protestas a la espera de una subida de salarios y mejora de condiciones en una decena...
UNAM prepara designación de su nuevo Rector
La UNAM desvela a los 17 candidatos para su rectoría Entre los aspirantes a sustituir a Enrique Graue están los...
Entrevista con Andrea Lagos, Diario Financiero
“Este Gobierno es más débil que antes de que entráramos al aniversario de los 50 años del golpe” El sociólogo y...
Reino Unido: Competencia entre universidades y la brecha de prestigios
Are the odds still stacked against the UK’s ‘challenger institutions’? A decade of English university policy has...
V Reunión del Consejo Asesor de la OEI
Tuvo lugar en Argentina la V Reunión del Consejo Asesor, centrada en la influencia de la transformación digital en la...