HE bill: why universities are not supermarkets Commentator Martin Wolf examines the economic flaws and false assumptions of the Higher Education and Research Bill February 16, 2017 By Martin Wolf The UK government’s controversial plans for reform of higher education...
Bellolio y Herrera: Hacia un nuevo sistema universitario
Hacia un nuevo sistema universitario Jaime Bellolio y Hugo Herrera, 23 febrero 2017 "Para conservar fortalezas y paliar defectos, se debiese avanzar hacia un régimen de aseguramiento universal de la calidad, apoyo fiscal igualitario para los estudiantes y apoyo...
Cómo interrumpir la acumulación de desventajas educacionales?
[youtube height="HEIGHT" width="WIDTH"]PLACE_LINK_HERE[/youtube] ¿Cómo interrumpir la acumulación de desventajas educacionales? Ofrecer especialmente a los hijos de hogares desaventajados una temprana educación y cuidado de alta efectividad es una tarea de la mayor...
Ministra Educación de EEUU y educación superior
How Much Power Does Betsy DeVos Really Hold to Shake Up Higher Ed? Most education secretaries have left a limited mark on higher ed. Here’s why. By Kelly Field FEBRUARY 16, 2017 Last week’s confirmation of Betsy DeVos as secretary of education has raised alarms among...
Brecha educacional y desigualdad
[divider scroll_text="SCROLL_TEXT"] Mind the Gap: Inequality in education by Tracey Burns, Senior Analyst, OECD Directorate for Education and Skills. 16.02.2017 "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times … we had everything before us, we had nothing before...
Por una refundación de la UE
Por una refundación de la UE Tribuna, El País, 13/2/2017 Daniel Innerarity - Javier Solana – Giuliano Amato – José Ignacio Torreblanca 300 intelectuales y académicos europeos firman este manifiesto en el que apuestan por “un gobierno europeo que defienda valores...
Alex Usher: Cómo financiar la educación superior (3)
How to Fund (3) Alex Usher. Posted on February 16, 2017 by Paul You all may remember that in early 2015, the province of Ontario announced it was going to review its university funding formula. There was no particular urgency to do so, and many were puzzled as to “why...
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....
Alex Usher: Cómo financiar la educación superior (1)
How to Fund (1) Posted on February 14, 2017 by Alex Usher Over the next three days, I want to talk about funding formulas. I know I did this a couple of years ago, at the start of the Ontario funding formula review exercise (see here, here, and here, but it’s...
La poderosa economía de la educación
La poderosa economía de la educación El sector tiene ante sí el desafío de reducir la desigualdad en los pupitres Ninguna industria se levanta sobre unos materiales tan sólidos ni tan frágiles. Números y palabras, textos y voces, ideas y pensamientos; delicada...
Desconfianza y crítica al CPT
Researchers embracing ChatGPT are like turkeys voting for Christmas The technology threatens to impoverish research...
Brasil: Cifras devastadoras
Sucata By Simon on May 12, 2023 07:29 am (O artigo abaixo foi publicado em O Estado de São Paulo, 12 de maio de 2023....
Rankings de universidades en perspectiva de regiones del mundo
MAY 3, 2023 | ALEX USHER Rankings Discourse: West, East and...
Una lectura del Chat GPT desde China
Xu Jilin on ChatGPT Xu Jilin, “A Discussion: Does ChatGPT Signal the Birth of a New World, on the Beginning of the...