Improving Quality Without Increasing Professorial Workloads Yesterday, I spoke about the desirability of changing the nature of academic work – specifically, dividing the assessment part of the job from the instructional part by creating a group of employees that...
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...
ChatGDP: reacciones desde el mundo universitario
Sciences Po bans ChatGPT amid HE quality, integrity fears Karen MacGregor 03 February 2023 Leading French grande école Sciences Po has banned the use of ChatGPT, the new chatbot capable of instantly writing essays, that has sparked consternation in higher education...
CFT estatales
CFT Estatales de Chile: una política descentralizadora y de justicia social por Ramón Rubio Donoso 3 febrero, 2023 Las comunidades que han recibido a los CFT, conocen el valor e impacto de esta descentralizadora política pública, y comunas como Alto Hospicio, Ovalle,...
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...
EEUU: Contexto político de la educación superior
Blue versus red states: Higher education policy-making in the US John Aubrey Douglass 21 January 2023 The midterm elections in the United States brought a sort of victory for President Joe Biden and the Democrats, including the retention of a slim majority in the...
Europa: Contexto político y educación superior
Universities and elections: Democratic actors or reactors? Sjur Bergan 21 January 2023 When one explores the issue of universities and elections, as University World News does in this and its previous edition, one should ask at least three questions: are universities...
Contexto político global y educación superior
Higher education can reverse its democratic recession William G Tierney 21 January 2023 One need not be a linguist to acknowledge the fluidity of language. In 1977 Lewis B Mayhew, one of academe’s preeminent scholars of higher education, penned Legacy of the...
Brasil: Contexto político y educación superior
Cautious optimism in universities greets new president Lula Marcelo Knobel and Elizabeth Balbachevsky 08 January 2023 When Luíz Inácio Lula da Silva was sworn in as Brazil’s new president on 1 January 2023, he found higher education (and many other areas) a...
Jamil Salmi: Equidad en el ingreso a la educación superior
GLOBAL Equity in access and success in HE is no longer a luxury Jamil Salmi 24 January 2023 Despite the spectacular expansion that has occurred in many parts of the planet in the past 60 years, severe disparities persist in higher education. A disproportionately...
Nuevo Fondo de Investigación para Universidades
“El Nuevo Fondo de Investigación para Universidades, que presentamos hoy, pavimenta el camino hacia el 1% en I+D” ●...
Entrevista sobre financiamiento de la educación superior
En conversación con ‘Ahora es Cuando’, el exministro y académico de la UDP, José Joaquín Brunner, se refirió al...
Por qué hacer un nuevo instrumento
Experto en educación y condonación del CAE: “No se entiende bien por qué se quisiera hacer un nuevo instrumento. Lo...
El destino de los fondos públicos y lo que esperamos de las universidades
El destino de los fondos públicos y lo que esperamos de las universidades Por: Julio Labraña y Carla Fardella,...