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 academia y la presidencia Trump vista desde el Times Higher Education
A new frontier: US academia under President Trump John Morgan considers the impact on students and US scholars, and the political earthquake’s potential positives January 19, 2017 By John Morgan As a winter afternoon darkens into evening in Washington DC, about 100...
Asignación de recursos para investigación y docencia en universidades de los EEUU
Rational Actors Study suggests that number of students taught has relatively little to do with faculty salaries, but that universities act efficiently in allocating resources to teaching and research. By Colleen Flaherty January 11, 2017 A common criticism of the...
Free Market for education?
Free Market for education? Susan Dynarski, professor of education, public policy and economics at the University of Michigan, The New York Times, December 30, 2016 The odds are good that privatizing education will be part of the agenda for President-elect...
Opiniones seleccionadas en torno a “acortar carreras”
¿Chile necesita nuevas carreras universitarias? La transformación del mercado laboral, marcada por la automatización y...
Educación superior: sucesos alrededor del mundo
Buenos días a todos. Estamos bastante pesados en los eventos en África y América Latina esta semana, y de países que...
Conversación en Radio TV13
Exministro José Joaquín Brunner ante violencia escolar: "Transformar la escuela en un aparato de sospecha es un error"...
Ese informe de Yale
Si has estado al tanto de la educación superior en Estados Unidos durante las últimas semanas, sin duda habrás visto...