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...
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[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...
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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...
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Derecha y progresismo: intereses e ideas Llevada al extremo, la dicotomía “ideas” versus “intereses” ubica al progresismo del lado de aquellas, y a la derecha del lado de éstos. Llevada al extremo, la dicotomía “ideas” versus “intereses” ubica al progresismo del lado...
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Gratuidad en perspectiva comparada: USA, Canadá y Chile
New York, New York Posted on February 8, 2017 by Alex Usher With the Republicans in control of both Congress and the White house for at least the next two years, the fight for “free tuition” is moving to the state level. And so to New York, where Governor Cuomo has...
Academias Nacionales de los EEUU frente a decisión de la Corte Suprema de dicho país
Declaración de las Academias Nacionales de Ciencias, Ingenierías y Medicina de los Estados Unidos ante la reciente...
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Osvaldo Corrales: “La única forma de revertir la crisis institucional es volver a tener un sistema de educación...
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La Conferencia General de la Organización Internacional del Trabajo, Convocada en Ginebra por el Consejo de...