The Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE) WORKING PAPER 16 How to solve the US’s student financing crisis Nicholas Barr, Bruce Chapman, Lorraine Dearden and Susan Dynarski In a CGHE working paper published today, researchers show that the US could solve its...
Trump y su favoritismo por charter schools
DEVOS PROMOTES SCHOOL CHOICE, LOCAL CONTROL BY MARIA DANILOVA ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) -- Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Monday sought to convince public school leaders that school choice and local control are important in education. Speaking to members of...
Trump buscará recortar programas de educación superior y C y T
Trump Seeks Deep Cuts in Education and Science Proposals would keep Pell level, but cut work-study and TRIO and eliminate SEOG. In science, president would make massive cuts to NIH and research at Energy Department. And budget formally seeks to kill NEH and...
Gobierno Trump prepara recorte presupuesto federal de educación
Trump Sharpens Budget Knife for Education Department, Sources Say By Alyson Klein on March 13, 2017 12:19 PM The Trump administration is contemplating dramatic cuts to K-12 spending, including a possible $6 billion reduction to existing programs in the U.S. Department...
Alex Usher: Cómo financiar la educación superior (2)
How to Fund (2) Posted on February 15, 2017 by Alex Usher As I noted yesterday, in Canada we have some kind of phobia about output-based funding. In the 1990s, Ontario and Alberta introduced, and then later killed, key performance indicators with funding attached....
Uso del iPad en la docencia universitaria
One Campus’s iPad Revolution Results in Education Evolution Mark Lombardi, president, Maryville U. By Lee Gardner February 03, 2017 Mark Lombardi, president of Maryville University, in Missouri, describes some of the interesting changes it has recently made in the...
Gratuidad en perspectiva comparada: USA, Canadá y Chile
New York, New York Posted on February 8, 2017 by Alex Usher With the Republicans in control of both Congress and the White house for at least the next two years, the fight for “free tuition” is moving to the state level. And so to New York, where Governor Cuomo has...
DeVos Makes Clear She’ll Trash Rules That Curb Predatory Colleges
DeVos Makes Clear She’ll Trash Rules That Curb Predatory Colleges 01/31/2017 11:19 am ET | Updated 4 days ago The Huffington Post, 01/31/2017 11:19 am ET | Updated 4 days ago There were plenty of hints in the past few weeks, but now it seems clear as day: The...
Brecha de destrezas (skills gap)
The Idea That Launched a Thousand Strategic Plans By Dan Berrett JANUARY 22, 2017 PREMIUM A single idea has come to shape colleges’ plans for the future and assumptions about their role and purpose. It’s called the skills gap. Simply put, the skills gap is when...
Nominación para Seceretaría de Educación en los EEUU
The Battle Lines Over Betsy DeVos By Peter Schmidt JANUARY 24, 2017 PREMIUM WASHINGTON For all of their unanswered questions about Betsy DeVos, President Trump’s nominee for secretary of education, members of the Senate at least know where a lot of people stand on...
La mesa técnica creada para el Sistema de Admisión Escolar (SAE)
Los nudos expuestos durante la mesa técnica creada para mejorar el Sistema de Admisión Escolar (SAE) Durante esta...
Política de acuerdos y sus múltiples consecuencias
Política de acuerdos y sus múltiples consecuencias La oposición constructiva de derechas logra llevar adelante una...
Crisis de salud mental en universidades británicas
Support from academics ‘can make student mental health worse’ Attempts by well-meaning scholars to help services...
Steven Brint sobre educación superior en EEUU de Trump
‘There Needs to Be a Rousing Defense of the Sector’ Steven Brint talks Trumpian dystopia, the administrator-activist...