Should public universities privatize given state budget constraints? Patti Zarling, March 2, 2018 Dive Brief: The University of Pittsburgh has watched its state funding dwindle from covering 35% of operations in the 1970s to 7% in 2018, a trend not likely to change...
Una mirada a la gratuidad (Canadá)
Ten Bad Arguments about Free Tuition in Canada February 20th, 2018 - Alex Usher So this weekend at the NDP convention, delegates voted in favour of a free tuition policy. Based on a totally unscientific scan of twitter afterwards, here are the ten most common...
Reforma educacional: de los textos a la implementación
Reforma educacional: de los textos a la implementación La paradoja es que, nacida en el gobierno Bachelet, sus contenidos y alcances, su impacto y efectos más duraderos, se concretarán bajo las órdenes del gobierno Piñera. José Joaquín Brunner Quizá el principal...
Condiciones de salud y aprendizaje
Is physical health linked to better learning? - February 21, 2018 by Tracey Burns Senior Analyst, Directorate for Education and Skills Mahatma Gandhi once said: "it is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver". And indeed, our physical well-being...
Carta de ex rector UCH: Legado para universidades estatales
SEÑOR DIRECTOR Establecer un “nuevo trato” entre el Estado y sus universidades era parte del programa del actual gobierno de la Presidenta Bachelet, algo que la Universidad de Chile venía reclamando desde el retorno a la democracia para reparar el daño institucional,...
Trump propone armar a los colegios
Trump Suggests Teachers Get a ‘Bit of a Bonus’ to Carry Guns By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS, FEB. 22, 2018, NEW YOTK TIMES To deter school shootings, President Trump supported the idea of giving teachers bonuses if they agree to carry guns in the classroom. By THE...
Usher: Seguimiento de la gratuidad en varios países
Roll On, Free Tuition February 6th, 2018 - Alex Usher I've written a few times over the years about the spread of Targeted Free Tuition (TFT) programs. Starting in Chile and Ontario in 2016 (after a false start in the UK in the late 1990s), they have started to...
PREAL: ¿Qué impacto tienen las evaluaciones estudiantiles?
¿Qué impacto tienen las evaluaciones estudiantiles? Feb 16 2018 This post is also available in: Inglés Las evaluaciones estudiantiles se utilizan alrededor del mundo para medir el aprendizaje y brindarle a los hacedores de políticas una medida de la calidad de la...
Francia: ¿Reforma sus universidades?
Left Bank Choosiness February 14th, 2018 - Alex Usher To Paris, where a couple of big changes in education policy have led to student demonstrations. Not particularly large or effective demonstrations (not yet, anyway), but significant nonetheless. The first - and...
Nuevo Rector de Harvard
Harvard Picks Former Tufts President as Its New Leader By Andy Thomason and Adam Harris FEBRUARY 11, 2018 Bill Sikes, AP Images Lawrence Bacow Harvard University has chosen for its 29th president a veteran leader of elite colleges. Lawrence S. Bacow, a former...
Escrito antes y leido después de la elección de Trump
Universities can expect a frontal attack if Trump returns John Aubrey Douglass, 30 October 2024 With the 5 November...
T. Snyder: ¿Qué es la libertad?
¿Qué es la libertad? La palabra más usada (y maltratada) en política La libertad no es solo la ausencia de barreras y...
Qué traerá consigo el segundo gobierno Trump
The second Trump term: Higher education braces for impact Nathan M Greenfield 08 November 2024 ‘Professors are the...
Conversaciones en torno al fogón
Ao pé da lareira By Simon Schwartzman on Nov 08, 2024 04:17 pm (Publicado em O Estado de São Paulo, 8 de novembro,...