Legal action over Gaza encampments on UK campuses Queen Mary and Birmingham go down legal route, as Swansea students claim victory, and Oxford protesters fear disciplinary reforms Patrick Jack,June 13, 2024 The fate of pro-Palestinian encampments on UK university...
Reino Unido: Competencia entre universidades y la brecha de prestigios
Are the odds still stacked against the UK’s ‘challenger institutions’? A decade of English university policy has sought to improve standards by increasing competition. However, new institutions remain small and peripheral. Tom Williams asks whether the prestige gap...
Gran Bretaña: Debate sobre financiamiento de la educación superior
Parties divided on best way out of the HE funding impasse Nic Mitchell 21 June 2023 Clear blue water is starting to open up between the direction a future Labour government could be heading over funding higher education in England should they win the next general...
Universidades de elite en Gran Bretaña y EEUU
What elite American universities can learn from Oxbridge US colleges could make themselves more meritocratic — but do they want to? Simon Kuper, JUNE 15 2023 Both the US and UK preselect their adult elites early, by admitting a few 18-year-olds into brandname...
Universidad de Oxford, admisión y elites
Oxford University’s other diversity crisis Good luck trying to become a professor if you don’t have family money Mar 1st 2023 By Emma Irving On a rainy summer’s day, I met Henry at a cosy pub on the outskirts of Oxford. A cheerful man in his 40s, with cherubic curls...
Meritocracia versus habitus
Behind the elite university’s ‘visage of meritocracy’ Nathan M Greenfield 01 February 2023 ,Far from being bastions of intellectual inquiry and meritocracy, in both Britain and the United States elite universities reproduce the ethnic, racial and class divisions...
Reino Unido: Contexto político y educación superior post-Brexit
Post-Brexit educational mobilities – What’s next? Rachel Brooks and Johanna Waters 21 January 2023 Following its departure from the European Union in 2020, the United Kingdom left the Erasmus+ programme, which funded international mobility for higher education...
Dificultades pandémicas de las universidades británicas: The Guardian
Hundreds of university staff to be made redundant due to coronavirus Lecturers, researchers and support staff with insecure contracts at three universities will lose their jobs Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage David Batty Thu 2 Apr...
Universidades británicas: rescate o fracaso?
Camilla Cavendish, Financial Times, April 3, 2019 Are universities too big to fail? As Covid-19 sweeps the globe, some UK universities, highly dependent on foreign students and summer courses for income, are looking into the abyss. Allowing a university to go bust...
De primaria a la universidad, la educación se resiste al Brexit
De primaria a la universidad, la educación se resiste al Brexit Desde el 2016, recuerda, más de 130,000 europeos han solicitado el pasaporte del Reino Unido, en algunos casos, como “un mecanismo de defensa” o como “una póliza de seguros contra la locura que nos...
El trumpismo como metáfora: reflexión sobre el fin de la democracia liberal
El trumpismo como metáfora: reflexión sobre el fin de la democracia liberal La novedad actual consiste en que, de...
Trump y la ciencia
Trump’s anti-science appointees ‘drive demonisation of scholars’ With vaccine sceptics taking top White House posts,...
Universidades españolas en comparación
Razones para apostar por la Universidad La comparación con los países vecinos nos deja mal parados: España ocupa la...
Premios Nobel de 2024 y visiones de mundo
What do the 2024 Nobel prizes tell us about human society? Philip G Altbach and Tessa DeLaquil , 28 October 2024 The...