View as Webpage Coronavirus (8)-Scenario Planning March 30th, 2020 - Alex Usher For the last three weeks, life on university and college campuses has all been about doing what is needed to save the semester and move to remote learning/remote working format. I get...
Alex Usher: coronavirus y docencia en línea
View as Webpage Coronavirus (9)-September & Big Classes Marchm31st, 2020 - Alex Usher (Yes, I know, I said I would try to stay off Coronavirus topics. But it’s bloody hard to talk about anything else, isn’t it?) One of the least attractive features of the modern...
Número 51 revista “Calidad en la Educación”: Liderazgo Escolar en Chile
Número 51 revista "Calidad en la Educación": Liderazgo Escolar en Chile La revista “Calidad en la Educación” ha publicado su número 51, se trata del número temático "Liderazgo Escolar en Chile" cuyos editores invitados fueron los académicos José Weinstein, Gonzalo...
Conversación sobre la burocracia de las universidades
How to avoid being sucked into the black hole of administration Bureaucracy is the bane of every academic’s life. But who is to blame for its proliferation – and how can it be kept in check? Six academics have their say – while a registrar offers an equal and opposite...
El plan estratégico de las universidades: un debate
What is the point of a strategic plan? Formulating and implementing a strategic plan is core to the modern university leader’s job description. But amid complaints that such documents are vacuous, generic and irrelevant to the wider community, John Ross asks how...
Presupuestos balanceados, Alex Usher
Balanced Budgets May 28th, 2019 - Alex Usher A few weeks ago, the federal and länder governments in Germany reached a ten-year accord with respect to funding for scientific research. Result: a decade of planned 3% annual increases. Needless to say, this elicited...
Sobre planes estratégicos en las universidades
Does My Institution Need a Strategic Plan? May 27th, 2019 - Alex Usher As our company’s name suggests, we think a lot about strategic planning here at HESA Towers. And after a decade of doing this job, I have come to the conclusion that while most institutions do...
Revista Avaliação e Políticas Públicas em Educação
A revista Revista Ensaio: Avaliação e Políticas Públicas em Educação acaba de publicar seu último número, disponível em http://revistas.cesgranrio.org.br/index.php/ensaio. Convidamos a navegar no sumário da revista para acessar os artigos e outros itens de seu...
Autonomía de los colegios
How decentralised are education systems, and what does it mean for schools? School autonomy is popular but also complex and sometimes contentious. Many education systems have increased schools’ autonomy in the hope of achieving greater efficiency and closer adaptation...
Administración educacional: entre Kafka y Weber
Domingo 17 de junio de 2018 Administración educacional: entre Kafka y Weber José Joaquín Brunner "Poco podrá hacer la comisión recién designada para aliviar la carga administrativa llevada al absurdo de los directivos escolares, si acaso este esfuerzo no se inscribe...
Repensar la Universidad: entre las inercias heredadas y la urgencia del futuro
El mayor riesgo que tiene hoy la Universidad es renunciar a su adaptación a la sociedad o realizar cambios...
¿Están haciendo las universidades lo suficiente para fortalecer la democracia?
Este año se conmemora el décimo aniversario del Marco de Referencia de Competencias para la Cultura Democrática...
La ciencia no es un lujo: es la capacidad de una sociedad para construir su futuro
Se requieren autoridades dispuestas a asumir su responsabilidad con el desarrollo científico nacional: no como una...
La verdadera emergencia
En vez de incorporar nuevo personal y sumar refuerzos, el cambio de gabinete solo produjo un ajuste burocrático. José...