CORONAVIRUS MARCH 9, 2020 | ALEX USHER Good morning and welcome back. I thought I would start the week off with a really cheery topic, like a global pandemic and how it will affect higher education. There are lots of ways to talk about the effects of coronavirus on...
Propuesta de admisión – académicos de la UCH
Otro sistema de ingreso a la Educación Superior para un Chile que despertó 24.02.2020 Por Asamblea de Académicos/as/es Autoconvocados de la Universidad de Chile TEMAS: Chile, Educación Superior, Prueba de Selección Universitaria, PSU El sistema de ingreso a la...
El Desencanto de los Chilenos ¿Tiene la Educación Superior algo que Ver?
FORO Foro es una revista electrónica bimestral de opinión sobre temas, en educación, cultura, economía, política y actualidad, entre otros, relacionados con el desarrollo. MARZO–ABRIL, 2020 VOL. 4, NUM. 2, PAGS. 22–40 El Desencanto de los Chilenos ¿Tiene la Educación...
Estudiantes de college y multitasking cursos presenciales versus online
College Students’ Multitasking Behavior in Online Versus Face-to-Face Courses Show all authors Andrew Lepp, Jacob E. Barkley, Aryn C. Karpinski, ... First Published January 13, 2019 Research Article //doi.org/10.1177/2158244018824505 Article information ARTICULO PDF...
Nuevo libro de Thomas Piketty
Thomas Piketty: ‘Economists are no different from other social scientists’ As the monumental follow-up to his best-selling Capital in the Twenty-First Century is published, the celebrated French economist speaks to Matthew Reisz about why a detailed historical...
¿Cuánto trabajan algunos académicos?
Should you be working 100 hours a week? Mary Beard’s recent admission that she is a ‘mug’ who works 100 hours a week caused a Twitter storm. But how hard is it reasonable for academics to work? Who should decide? And should the mugs be obliged to keep quiet? Seven...
Nuevas concepciones del PhD
The New Ph.D. Momentum grows to rewrite the rules of graduate training By Marc Parry February 16, 2020 PREMIUM (c) Meg Berkobien couldn’t do it anymore. She’d finished about three-quarters of a doctoral dissertation in comparative literature. Her advisers at the...
Consultas antes de definir políticas: Inglaterra y Australia
How to Make Policy February 12th 2020 - Alex Usher Take a ride with me. First stop, London, England. UK university funding is handled by an intermediate institution known as the Office for Students (OfS). The Government decides on the amount of money it wants to spend...
Pago de la deuda estudiantil en USA
Growing Federal Subsidies for Graduate Loan Debt Almost half of federal student loans are being repaid through more generous income-driven repayment plans, new data show, with 80 percent of government subsidies now going to graduate student borrowers. Almost half of...
¿Investigación interdisciplinaria?
Is interdisciplinary research really the best way to tackle global challenges? Politicians, funders and university leaders all intone the mantra of interdisciplinarity. But what does the concept really mean? Will it really yield the insights it promises? And how best...
La vida social de las redes académicas
Academic networking: a cynic’s game? Junior scholars are urged to do all they can to build bridges with the people who...
El programa trumpiano 2025 y la educación superior
Project 2025 poses a threat to US global leadership in HE James Yoonil Auh 11 September 2024 Project 2025, officially...
Relatos de escándalos y élites
Relatos de escándalos y élites por José Joaquín Brunner, 11 de septiembre de 2024 Nuestro mes de septiembre ha ido...
Noam Chomsky, el intelectual que se ha enfrentado a (casi) todo
Noam Chomsky, el intelectual que se ha enfrentado a (casi) todo A pesar de estar sin facultad de habla a raíz del...