educationtoday blog Educating our youth to care about each other and the world Posted: 12 Dec 2017 03:07 AM PST by Andreas Schleicher Director, Directorate for Education and Skills In 2015, 193 countries committed to achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals...
La economía política del capitalismo académico: el caso de Chile
"La economía política del capitalismo académico: el caso de Chile", capítulo de J. J. Brunner, disponible en el libro de Lavados y Durán (eds.), Desafíos para el Desarrollo Universitario en Chile, 2017, la pp. 159-231. Ver el texto en Desafíos para el Desarrollo...
Compromiso con la Educación: Invitación
Cristián Cox, Director del Centro de Políticas Comparadas de Educación de la Universidad Diego Portales, tiene el agrado de invitar a usted a la presentación de los libros “El imperativo de la educación superior. Conocimiento y habilidades para el...
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...
Alex Usher: La economía de los rankings
The Economics of Rankings November 27, 2017 - Alex Usher One of the greatest misapprehensions about rankings - and there are a lot, believe me - is that rankers are "just doing it for the money". For the most part, this is wrong. It's really hard to make money at...
Alex Usher: Universidad neoliberal (5)
Last Orders on Neoliberalism (Neoliberalism Part 5) November 24th, 2017 - Alex Usher To sum up the week's arguments: Neoliberalism is about markets. There are actually very few genuine markets in higher education and where there are they can be quite beneficial...
Educación superior: Un enfoque de economía política
Curso dictado en el MBA - Magíster en Dirección de Empresas de la Universidad Diego portales, sábado 2 de diciembre de 2017, sobre el enfoque de economía política de la educación superior. Bajar la Presentación del curso aquí
Alex Usher: Universidad Neoliberal (3)
Universities and Competition (Neoliberalism Part 3) November 22nd, 2017 - Alex Usher One of the key accusations about universities and neoliberalism is that the system is too obsessed with competition. On the face of it, this looks like the easiest argument to make...
OCDE: Desempeño de las escuelas en el aprendizaje de destrezas blandas
educationtoday blog Are school systems ready to develop students’ social skills? Posted: 21 Nov 2017 01:43 AM PST by Andreas Schleicher Director, Directorate for Education and Skills Successes and failures in the classroom will increasingly shape the fortunes of...
Alex Usher: Significado de universidad neoliberal (2)
What People Mean When They Talk About Neoliberal Universities (Part 2) November 21st, 2017 - Alex Usher Yesterday I talked about how the notion of neo-liberal universities was based on four concepts: greater use of market mechanisms, increased use of competitions, the...
Alex Usher conversa sobre educación superior en Rusia
MARCH 21, 2024 | ALEX USHER - Higher Education Podcast Higher Education in Russia The World of Higher Education...
Política australiana para la educación superior por A lex Usher
Are We Out of Ideas? I was prepping yesterday for my podcast interview with Australian higher education expert Andrew...
¿Se lee aun a los clásicos literarios?
Los clásicos literarios en las aulas: ‘ubi sunt?’ Cuadra muy bien con el pensamiento de posiciones reaccionarias, que...
Desconfianza en las instituciones
Desconfianza en las instituciones Es una paradoja de las sociedades democráticas que, llegado cierto momento crítico,...