Finance and economics Women in economics #EconomistsToo WASHINGTON, DC, March 23, 2019 A dispiriting survey—and our own investigations—demonstrated the poor treatment of female economists in America’s universities “Why is this an interesting question?” Éva Nagypál,...
Liderazgo en la empresa Amazon y su proyección a la academia
Checking Academic Culture Against Amazon's Leadership Principles Divergent and alignment. By Joshua Kim March 21, 2019 Does your university provide a set of publicly articulated values and principles to guide recruitment shape employee culture? How would those values...
Expansión matrícula educación superior y equidad de su distribución
How Equitable Can We Get? March 7th, 2019 - Alex Usher Last month, the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario (HEQCO) published a paper entitled “Redefining Access to Postsecondary Education”. It raises a number of interesting questions about access in Ontario...
Alex Usher sobre las críticas de la “mercadización”
The "Marketization" Critique February 27th, 2019 - Alex Usher If you pay attention to the train wreck that is higher education policy in the UK, you will no doubt quickly come across claims that “marketization” is to blame. Skyrocketing vice-chancellor’s (i.e....
Experiencias comparadas de selección escolar
Columnistas Domingo 10 de marzo de 2019 Experiencias comparadas de selección escolar "Seleccionar por desempeño académico no es un tema únicamente chileno, ni una rareza de nuestro sistema escolar o un torcido propósito de política educativa. Sino un mecanismo de uso...
Usher sobre ayudas estudiantiles: claves contemporáneas
View as Webpage Income Share Agreements Part 1 March 4th, 2019 - Alex Usher Every once in awhile, someone comes up a “new” concept in student financing and people get very excited about it. As in most other policy fields, the “newness” is a matter of perspective and...
Gasto de las familias en Educación
The World’s Families: Hidden Funders of Education By Friedrich Huebler and Elise Legault, Programme Specialists at the UNESCO Institute for Statistics This blog was also published by the Global Partnership for Education (GPE). We know too little about education...
U de California deja caer a Elsevier
Books And Publishing UC Drops Elsevier After months of negotiating over open-access fees and paywalls, the University of California System follows through on threat to cancel its journal subscription deal with Elsevier. By Lindsay McKenzie March 1, 2019 10 COMMENTS...
Polémica Usher versus Collini – Visiones de la universidad (inglesa)
What is Stefan Collini For? February 15th, 2019 - Alex Usher If you follow UK higher education at all you’ve almost certainly come across the writing of Stefan Collini, most likely in the Guardian or the London Review of Books. He’s not a higher education specialist...
¿El fin de las universidades?
¿El fin de las universidades? Muchos se preguntan si ha llegado el fin de las universidades o, por lo menos, del modelo de provisión de educación superior tras la irrupción de las nuevas tecnologías digitales. Otto Granados es presidente del Consejo Asesor de la OEI....
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Ciencia abierta versus editoriales académicas
Academic Publishers Threatened By Open-Access Expansion Critics say a directive to make federally funded research...
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